> clients are much more conservative Not true. Financial clients spend BIG and invest often in cutting edge tech to develop & advance their quantitative tradin

> clients are much more conservative Not true. Financial clients spend BIG and invest often in cutting edge tech to develop & advance their quantitative trading and high frequency trading businesses. The full stack from cables to networking to application needs to be as good as it can be. Your solving problems of big data, real time and it MUST work. Financial tech people are some of THE best in the business, solving some of the most challenging problems out there. It's probably true to say that some finance institutions are practically software houses - with some of the big IB's employing more tech people than they do business function. Like others have said, there are huge opportunities in finance, but you need some serious tech to compete.