LOL! Hadoop Developer required in Geneva for €300 = £225 a day

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piotrkula replied

14 January 2016, 20:20
300euro an hour maybe? I think the contractor rates have taken a hit slightly... and its going to get worse when the damn 7% dividend tax is introduced.
I was offered a role in Sweden for a bank too for Polish clients (i speak Polish fluently) and the agent said it was £125 per day... ummm -- what?

Agent: Yea this an excellent rate for our Polish contractors..
Me: Yea, problem is that in UK everything is 5 times more expensive,, so technically you should be offering me £500 per day
Agent: ....

It seems like them Swedes dont take things seriously do they?
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NotAllThere replied

13 January 2016, 13:42
Originally posted by Relaxed View Post

225*11*21=51975, even for permie in Switzerland it's half price

Nope. Lower level IT jobs start at about 80'000 CHF. The average Swiss salary is 60K (CHF).
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stek replied

13 January 2016, 13:16
Isn't Hadoop HDFS some sort of poor man's GPFS?
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d000hg replied

13 January 2016, 13:08
Pick a skill everyone and their dog didn't jump into 4 years ago!
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Relaxed replied

13 January 2016, 13:02
Originally posted by NotAllThere View Post

If it was permie, that amount would be about right.

225*11*21=51975, even for permie in Switzerland it's half price
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NotAllThere replied

13 January 2016, 05:47
Originally posted by Relaxed View Post

I saw a contract advert for Hadoop Developer. Experience with Hadoop, MapReduce, HDFS, HBase, Zookeeper, Hive, Pig, Sqoop, Cassandra, Oozie, Flume, Chukwa, Pentaho Kettle and Talend required.
All for £225 a day... in Switzerland... ...

If it was permie, that amount would be about right.
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WTFH replied

13 January 2016, 01:43
The market in many areas is in a pretty good condition, but Hadoop looks like it's fairly low end stuff - £20 per hour in the US for a senior developer.
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Relaxed replied

13 January 2016, 01:33
Apart from jokes, is market in such a bad condition?
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LondonManc replied

12 January 2016, 19:47
Originally posted by RSoles View Post

Been doing this for a while now, the technology is quite ok to work with,
the difficult part is remembering wtf the things are called.

Tinky-Winky, Dipsy, Laa-Laa, Po

HTHBIDI
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RSoles replied

12 January 2016, 18:26
Been doing this for a while now, the technology is quite ok to work with,
the difficult part is remembering wtf the things are called.
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d000hg replied

12 January 2016, 17:06
Originally posted by vadhert View Post

Are these technologies somehow named after extended family members of teletubbies?

I assumed he'd made most of them up.
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vadhert replied

12 January 2016, 16:07
Originally posted by Relaxed View Post

I saw a contract advert for Hadoop Developer. Experience with Hadoop, MapReduce, HDFS, HBase, Zookeeper, Hive, Pig, Sqoop, Cassandra, Oozie, Flume, Chukwa, Pentaho Kettle and Talend required.
All for £225 a day... in Switzerland...
And if you think the client is a Mickey Mouse Consulting, you're wrong, it's a Tier 1 bank...
Anyone fancy a well-paying gig?
Is IT contracts market in deep crisis?

Are these technologies somehow named after extended family members of teletubbies?
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LondonManc replied

12 January 2016, 15:59
Originally posted by Relaxed View Post

I saw a contract advert for Hadoop Developer. Experience with Hadoop, MapReduce, HDFS, HBase, Zookeeper, Hive, Pig, Sqoop, Cassandra, Oozie, Flume, Chukwa, Pentaho Kettle and Talend required.
All for £225 a day... in Switzerland...
And if you think the client is a Mickey Mouse Consulting, you're wrong, it's a Tier 1 bank...
Anyone fancy a well-paying gig?
Is IT contracts market in deep crisis?

Bob will be all over it. No proven track record required, just saw it over someone's shoulder.
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Relaxed started a topic LOL! Hadoop Developer required in Geneva for €300 = £225 a day

12 January 2016, 15:14
LOL! Hadoop Developer required in Geneva for €300 = £225 a day

I saw a contract advert for Hadoop Developer. Experience with Hadoop, MapReduce, HDFS, HBase, Zookeeper, Hive, Pig, Sqoop, Cassandra, Oozie, Flume, Chukwa, Pentaho Kettle and Talend required.
All for £225 a day... in Switzerland...
And if you think the client is a Mickey Mouse Consulting, you're wrong, it's a Tier 1 bank...
Anyone fancy a well-paying gig?
Is IT contracts market in deep crisis?
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