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One comment...Wall Street doesn't have a choke-hold on technical talent. For instance, most (I'm confident to say above 90%) people recruited by banking program
by alexbiz 16y ago
One comment...Wall Street doesn't have a choke-hold on technical talent. For instance, most (I'm confident to say above 90%) people recruited by banking programs cannot write a single line of code. Excel macros don't count.
- MediaSquirrel 16y agoYeah, i think he misunderstood my point just slightly, which is really that there's not enough serious dev talent that in NYC that actually wants to go into startups. Wall Street is not the only cause, but is a major factor. Ironically, I intro'd that reporter to 60% of the people in the story he quoted, including Carter Cleveland and Cody Brown.
- carterac 16y agoWhenever people ask me who does our PR, I just refer them to Matt.
- jasonjei 16y agoNYC programming talent is centered around enterprisey stuff. Audit trails, triggers, transactions, logs, SOAP, COBOL, messaging platforms/queues, XML, Java, and the like. It's high-talentstuff, but stuff that many in Valley aren't interested. Start-ups in NYC are increasing. Union Square Ventures is probably a good reason for the push of NYC software startups.
- cageface 16y agoI've been keeping an eye on NYC job postings lately with the idea of switching coasts but I haven't seen that many. What are some good ones that currently need people?
- dspeyer 16y agoThere's always Google. The hiring never stops.
- starsky 16y agoRight. All that C++ code for high frequency trading is written by "banking program" employees who cannot write a single line of code. What planet are you from ?
- lolhn 16y agoI know Erlang, Haskell, Scala, C++ and Java hackers with jobs in finance. Not people who know them a little, true expert hackers.