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Q or K

reminds of my second dev job, mortgage and asset backeds at Merrill in APL2 on a huge IBM mainframe cluster. Sort of fun and painful at the same time, esp. since APL was a language I couldn't really explain in code review (kinda like haskell). Also it was 14 hours/day, 6-7 days /week, eat at your desk, take a limo home.

They made it easy to move around between groups and divisions but you had to pitch your new manager for a slot, you couldn't jsut say you wanted to work there, it was really enterpreneurial, and still is. Very demanding, good dev skills plus either good at linear algebra and Diff eq, or at reading thick legal docs and translating pretty convoluted asset pools and deal structures to the dollar.