On Feb 27, 2012, at 7:53 PM, William Herrin <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 3:22 PM, Owen DeLong <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Feb 27, 2012, at 12:02 PM, Brandt, Ralph wrote: >>> Generalists are hard to come by these days. >> >> I think you're more likely to find a network engineer with (possibly limited) >> programming skills. > > I wish. For the past three months I've been trying to find a network > engineer with a deep TCP/IP protocol understanding, network security > expertise, some Linux experience, minor programming skill with sockets > and a TS/SCI clearance. > > The clearance is killing me. The two generalists didn't have a > clearance and the cleared applicants are programmers or admins but > never both. > > > On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 6:12 PM, Rodrick Brown <[email protected]> > wrote: >> Good Luck guys like these are being scooped up by large financial >> firms and hedgefunds and they don't come cheap ~$250k easy! > > Not all of them. I've been approached a few times but there is > something sleazy about helping a bunch of tycoons do millisecond > timing attacks against the market. The money doesn't magically appear. > Every dollar they squeeze out that way is stolen from some grandmother > who has held the stock for 20 years. >
Try explaining the number of ex-Bell Lab R&D folks working on trading desks these days. A major financial firm I worked for in the past directly targeted candidates from the telecom industry. In recent news a russian programmer who allegedly stole Goldman Sachs proprietary code was making $400k/year and he's probably still on the market looking for work :-) > Regards, > Bill Herrin > > > > -- > William D. Herrin ................ [email protected] [email protected] > 3005 Crane Dr. ...................... Web: <http://bill.herrin.us/> > Falls Church, VA 22042-3004
