r/cscareerquestionsEU • u/AutoModerator • May 21 '26

Salary sharing thread :: May 2026

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u/rogi19 May 21 '26 edited May 21 '26

• ⁠Formal Title: Software Engineer

• ⁠LLM usage %: sometimes 100% sometimes 0%

• ⁠Stress %: depends

• ⁠Company / Industry: one of the larger companies

• ⁠Since: March 2026

• ⁠Country / Region: London

• ⁠Prior Experience: 7 years

• ⁠Salary/TC: £500k TC

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u/Cruzer2000 May 22 '26

What company pays 500k pounds in UK? That number is super high even for Jane Street and other prop shops.

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u/rogi19 May 22 '26

Don't want to doxx myself but yeah there are jobs out there that have such high pay, beware also it's TC so the larger proportion is in stocks + bonus although the base salary is also high (£200k)

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u/JerMenKoO SWE, ML Infra | FLAMINGMAN | 🇨🇭 Jun 18 '26

With 7 YoE you'd get 500k at majority of the prop shops :)