sun123

Hi, I'm from India working with one of the "Digital Transformation" consultancy. I have little more than ten years experience. I work with clients to help transform their legacy architecture. I work with some of the newer technology stacks ( think micro-services based, Java 8 , Spring Cloud, Node.js (hapi, loopback), Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines etc.,)

Right now I'm being offered a transfer to our London office. They are offering me around 47,000 pounds. I personally think this is less, but I don't have any figure to anchor on. Is this figure less or is it decent ? Should I negotiate for more ? What is considered a decent figure ?

We don't have a consistent on boarding process yet and this is leading to inefficient use of developer time in the first month at least. I'm working on preparing one.

Do you have an on boarding process ? How does it look like ?

For one, I could think of Big Data/ Hadoop. In the past one year, at least ten "coaching institutes" have sprang up in the area I live (in Bangalore) claiming to teach Hadoop and promising high paying jobs.

I went in there for a "demo session", and they are like "you can learn Hadoop and get a high paying job with absolutely no programming experience".

Anyway, these places always get some kind of gullible people.

I think this is a fad, and it will die down soon. What do you think about this ? Do you think there are any other fads like this ?