Firms like this have spent decades driven by a short term, "get it done now, future entropy be damned" mentality, partially because market opportunities are fle

Firms like this have spent decades driven by a short term, "get it done now, future entropy be damned" mentality, partially because market opportunities are fleeting and partially because the principals usually come from a trading background and have very little respect or understanding for technology. The norm are gigantic systems accruing decades of technical debt,very large swats of dead code and a refusal (and sometimes plain inability) to address software engineering issues. The firms that survive are the ones that realize (and staff accordingly) they are tech firms that happen to trade rather then other way around.