I think you're describing investment bankers circa 1995. Tech in investment banks is full of, well, developers. I'm currently working on stuff that has X0,000

I think you're describing investment bankers circa 1995. Tech in investment banks is full of, well, developers. I'm currently working on stuff that has X0,000 cores, X00 GPUs (compute though not rendering), web UI, large data aggregation and visualisation (around 1bn data points moving in near real time). I don't do fpga work but I sit near some chaps that do. In fairness, I haven't done any CAD or audio at a bank. However, I did design sonar absorbing materials prior to working in finance and there's a surprising amount of similarity in the engineering I did then and the statistical sims we do now. Oh, and lobster night is Tuesday night.