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Re: [LUG] OT: IT salaries

 

Rob Beard wrote:
Thing is, how many of these people were doing more involved electrical engineering stuff?

I used to work at Nortel in Paignton as a programmer. There were quite a few engineers, and quite a few programmers. When they started laying people off prior to the sell-out to Bookham I went to work in North Devon for a bit. Now I work for myself in West Cornwall.

Only a few engineers or developers were hit by the initial redundancies before I left, but I guess everyone was affected in the end.

Anthony
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