the current generation being hired into wall street (people around my age) have some kind of engineering, mathematics, physics, CS background in huge amounts. f

the current generation being hired into wall street (people around my age) have some kind of engineering, mathematics, physics, CS background in huge amounts. finance hires people like these by the boatload into all kinds of positions: risk, research, trading, sales. software development permeates the entire value chain in the industry.