03-06-2023, 05:30 AM
The UK government is hiring for the head of their CBDC programme. The pay is dreadfu
<table> <tr><td> <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/11ivky1/the_uk_government_is_hiring_for_the_head_of_their/"> <img src="https://b.thumbs.redditmedia.com/M3G1Yn5DJTjkTrOsYMMXLYd5Vncv6v6pFj2CE8Cd2pQ.jpg" alt="The UK government is hiring for the head of their CBDC programme. The pay is dreadful and the project is doomed." title="The UK government is hiring for the head of their CBDC programme. The pay is dreadful and the project is doomed." /> </a> </td><td> <!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>The UK government is/was hiring for a role entitled "Head of Central Bank Digital Currency", evidently a hiring to accelerate their mission to release a digital CBDC version of the British Pound, as suggested <a href="https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/paper/2023/the-digital-pound-consultation-paper">here.</a></p> <p>There is one problem however, the position's pay caps out at £66.5k. Admittedly, this is more than I earn, but it is nowhere near sufficient to hire a competent senior software engineer, let alone an engineer sufficiently skilled to lead a major project in a nascent field. </p> <p>I believe the UK government has completely underestimated the scale of the project a CBDC will require and unless something radically changes, the project is doomed to fail. </p> <p>​</p> <p><a href="https://preview.redd.it/9vty8cjouwla1.png?width=698&format=png&auto=webp&s=470358e060da120bf2ab30c716c523e339be1bdc">The advertised role</a></p> </div><!-- SC_ON --> submitted by <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Laughingboy14"> /u/Laughingboy14 </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/11ivky1/the_uk_government_is_hiring_for_the_head_of_their/">[link]</a></span> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/11ivky1/the_uk_government_is_hiring_for_the_head_of_their/">[comments]</a></span> </td></tr></table>
<table> <tr><td> <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/11ivky1/the_uk_government_is_hiring_for_the_head_of_their/"> <img src="https://b.thumbs.redditmedia.com/M3G1Yn5DJTjkTrOsYMMXLYd5Vncv6v6pFj2CE8Cd2pQ.jpg" alt="The UK government is hiring for the head of their CBDC programme. The pay is dreadful and the project is doomed." title="The UK government is hiring for the head of their CBDC programme. The pay is dreadful and the project is doomed." /> </a> </td><td> <!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>The UK government is/was hiring for a role entitled "Head of Central Bank Digital Currency", evidently a hiring to accelerate their mission to release a digital CBDC version of the British Pound, as suggested <a href="https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/paper/2023/the-digital-pound-consultation-paper">here.</a></p> <p>There is one problem however, the position's pay caps out at £66.5k. Admittedly, this is more than I earn, but it is nowhere near sufficient to hire a competent senior software engineer, let alone an engineer sufficiently skilled to lead a major project in a nascent field. </p> <p>I believe the UK government has completely underestimated the scale of the project a CBDC will require and unless something radically changes, the project is doomed to fail. </p> <p>​</p> <p><a href="https://preview.redd.it/9vty8cjouwla1.png?width=698&format=png&auto=webp&s=470358e060da120bf2ab30c716c523e339be1bdc">The advertised role</a></p> </div><!-- SC_ON --> submitted by <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Laughingboy14"> /u/Laughingboy14 </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/11ivky1/the_uk_government_is_hiring_for_the_head_of_their/">[link]</a></span> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/11ivky1/the_uk_government_is_hiring_for_the_head_of_their/">[comments]</a></span> </td></tr></table>