Hold my beer: https://developer.salesforce.com/blogs/engineering/2014/08/m...

It's a blue collar job in the UK, coupled with the out-dated concept that individual contributors cannot earn as much as managers.

More importantly, are they hiring?

Actually no :( we just finished hiring some new candidates to fill our team. Like I mentioned in the earlier comment I am an outlier because I do end up working a lot with architectural tasks so maybe my job title doesn't justify my work.

May I suggest something more anonymous like a google spreadsheet? Or a HN poll?

I think keeping it in comments here is better since spreadsheets tend to to have a lot of messed up data (looking at previous surveys). What people share is definitely free-form, so I'd prefer to leave the data rather unstructured. Creating a throwaway is also really easy and bogus comments are easier to deal with than someone messing with the spreadsheet.

However, I've created a spreadsheet (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1MAIX9UEnpq0pAsMWr1NW...) if anyone prefers that.

I recommend making a web form using Google spreadsheets - which takes 3 minutes, and making the spreadsheet read-only.

When I last posted an open spreadsheet to hacker news it grew, then got defaced with all the data deleted. Someone restored it but it was work to ensure no data was lost.

Zurb Foundation.

Though it is, literally, a foundation to build your own look-and-feel on.

...and that is a dealbreaker.

I started off with an Access database. Then we split the JET DB backend out from the front end and put that on a shared drive. Then we replaced the backend with SQL Server (without changing the front end.) Then eventually it all got migrated to an ASP.Net backend + single page application. It's still running 8 years later. Access is an incredibly flexible tool.

Xamarin have some very smart people on the case.

You'd be surprised. There's a lot of shops out there who have never heard of CI/CD/Automated Tests/etc.

I was suprised to see how many Java applications run on Windows + MSSQL.