[teh]

More often than not recruiters (external and in-house) make up large numbers to get you to reply. Here is a verbatim quote from a mail I got last year:

> For the right candidate year 1 comp will be up to £500k.

After going through a three hour coding test, phone screen + onsite it turned out to be 120k + smallish bonus. Maybe I'm not the right candidate but most likely 500k was never on the table.

It's not the first time this has happened to me or people I know either. What I'm getting at is that I'd take the Oxford Knight compensation numbers with a pinch of salt. Those 300k jobs _do_ exist but nowhere near as many as in the US.

Additionally levels.fyi or glassdoor data doesn't support a large number of 300k jobs in London.

[mstade]

Yeah this seems like a common bait and switch tactic amongst recruiters these days, I've received the same kind of emails as you.