Red Gate is hiring, all interviewed will get an iPad (red-gate.com)

If I'm not in UK and don't have the right to work in UK, will I still be considered?

Edited to Add: No I cannot. I wish it was made clear upfront. Anyway, no worries ;)

I know I sure can't wait to work with a bunch of people who were bored and unhappy at their previous job but couldn't manage pull their shit together enough to write up a CV or cover letter, and had to be spurred by the offer of a $500 gadget to even bother to apply in the first place.

Thanks to Red Gate for attracting people with a free iPad.

While you are in the area, you might also want to have a look at the Cambridge office of Citrix. We are currently around 50 people and look to add ca 20 new employees this year.

We are working on virtualization, e.g. XenServer. So a background in operating systems helps, but is not necessary. (I did not have one.) The infrastructure is closely aligned with Unix systems, but the guest systems our customers run are mostly Windows machines.

We don't offer free iPads for interviewees, but the software we write in Cambridge is open-sourced and you'll have the opportunity to hack in functional languages. (C, Python and friends are also helpful. I only mention FP because that's what drew me here in the first place.)

Benefits and pay seem similar to Red Gate (though as far as I know the high end may go higher here), only our kitchen isn't equipped to prepare lunch.

Please drop me an email if you want to learn more. You can find my email address in my profile.

I just wonder if you have anyone at Red Gate who commutes from London? While I've heard a lot of good stuff about Red Gate and Cambridge is a very nice place I would be hesitant to give up the awesomeness of living in London. (I suppose I'm not alone with that).

What do you find tacky about this?

The quick application page, on the other hand (the link at the bottom of that page) seems more interested in what degree you have and where you got it than who you actually are and what you've done.

£30,000 = £22,000 take home

£45,000 = £32,000 take home.

+ the benefit package yada.

That's about £23,000 to £33,000 take home.

A bit above average for a graduate CS job. Less than you'd expect for a 30-35 year old with degree plus experience.

(roughly anyway)

  30k -> 22.6k    (25% total employee tax burden)

  45k -> 32.8K    (27% total employee tax burden)

  90k -> 59.4K    (34% total employee tax burden)

 135k -> 86.0K    (36% total employee tax burden)

From my last round of job-hunting around Cambridge (about two years ago) I'd say that was pretty typical for the posts they're looking to fill. As with all things, you have to look at the whole package, and Redgate's is pretty good. I guess it's one of those cases where you trade off being amazingly-paid but working 80 hours a week in a job you hate against being less well-paid (but still frankly not badly paid in the grand scheme of things) but enjoying where you work more. It's not often you find somewhere that'll pay you £60k and still let you go home at 5:30pm.

stats.pluginseo.com is murdering the performance of that page, for me at least. Took 21 seconds to load, as measured by FireBug; download of http://stats.pluginseo.com/132108.js timed out:

http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/stats.pluginseo.com

Looks almost like DNS poisoning attack or something:

    $ nslookup

    Name:    pluginseo.com
    Address:  174.121.79.132

    Name:    stats.pluginseo.com.re.getclicky.com
    Address:  204.13.8.76
    Aliases:  stats.pluginseo.com

You have to pass a 15 minute interview before being eligible for the iPad, by the looks of it. So I guess that'll cancel out all the builders and their dogs from walking away with an iPad.

I'm interested in if free stuff devalues the employee or the employer. Or is it just awesome?

They're hoping that the free publicity attracting _good_ developers who otherwise wouldn't have heard about Redgate, will outweigh having to sift through some extra chaff.