[devnonymous]

You'd be surprised at how technically challenging/appealing financials can be. Ulrich Drepper also left Red Hat to work at Goldman Sachs ( https://www.linkedin.com/in/ulrichdrepper ). The algorithmic challenges, hardware optimization challenges etc in financials are nothing to scoff. Yeah, and the money is good as well. The work is not as 'sexy' as google, nasa, tesla but it is just as appealing to people who are interested in doing work that is supposed to provide high performance and high reliability.

[pkaye]

Are all these jobs in NYC? Do these finance companies have offices working on these issues in SV?

[devnonymous]

I wouldn't know, since I don't work in NY. In fact, I don't work in the US. I live and work in Singapore and yes, all the big financials are here, some of them /also/ have their IT departments and yes they do the sort of work I spoke of here.

Now, I know my reply is only slightly related to your question, but I just saw this opportunity and took the effort to write all of this is to ^remind^ people that the world is not all about SV, or US, or startups, or IT, or technology ...