First Metro, then Atom, and now... :86 400

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andyg replied

31 July 2018, 10:13
Atom - Durham

It will be interesting to see if one of the challenger banks actually breaks through and makes headway against the big four. Atom are recruiting at the moment, I had a chat with them last week about a role, but they are Durham based so doesn't help you with London. But with your skillset it may be a good way back into UK contracting and Durham is a nice part of the world.
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Lance replied

29 July 2018, 15:06
There are 86,400 seconds in a day.
As every DNS administrator can tell you.

No. Don't bother till we know what Brexit means (HINT: It's probably not what many people voted for)

EDIT: I was right about the number of seconds but not the horrid cringeworthy "puts you first, every second of every day". Yuk. Alan Partridge could do better.
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NotAllThere replied

29 July 2018, 13:36
They take a day off in a leap year.
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GhostofTarbera replied

29 July 2018, 08:09
Some sort of sheep dipping site ?

Ohh another new bank, that’s only the 3000th this year

I would stay put, London is deed because if brexit
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Stan.goodvibes started a topic First Metro, then Atom, and now... :86 400

29 July 2018, 07:34
First Metro, then Atom, and now... :86 400

Hi fellow contractors,

I haven't been here for a good long while because I've been busy doing banking in Sydney. I'm now coming up to my first year as a perm in a fintech startup called 86 400 ("eighty six four hundred"). Our chairman is none other than Anthony Thompson, founder of Metro and Atom in the UK.

www.86400.com.au (top points to whoever can work out the meaning of our name before looking at the website).

I'm back on here because despite being perm I'm picking up all the latest tech as a (SAFe agile) Scrum Master (Rest API's, NodeJs, AWS, Streambase, Kafka, GraphDB, Cassandra, Open Banking, Swagger, CI/CD, Postman, etc etc) as well as all the agile stuff (JIRA, Confluence, Scenarios etc etc).

And the age-old quest to return to contracting in London has come to mind again ( I contracted in the City from 1995-2001 and have a UK passport). So I've been reading threads about state of the market and the state of London and I was just wondering if anyone wants to throw in some advice - should I stay or should I go now? I have a possible opportunity of some cheap/free accommodation in London (house-sitting) but my ideal time would be next UK Summer, but then Brexit might have killed the contractor market.

Thoughts? Thanks.
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