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If you want to be a programmer at a financial firm they usually care about your credit score.
by oneofthefive 15y ago
If you want to be a programmer at a financial firm they usually care about your credit score.
- achompas 15y agoThis makes sense, as financial firms want to avoid cash-strapped employees who might sell HFT algorithms to competing firms for money.
- oneofthefive 15y agoYour credit score has nothing to do with being strapped for cash. You can have plenty of cash and a bad or nonexistent credit score.
- achompas 15y agoWhat you're saying is true, but It's difficult to imagine a common scenario where someone with a lot of poor credit decisions has a lot of cash on hand, as those credit decisions usually occur because of limited cash flow. Also, companies can tell when low scores result from sparse history or poor decisions. They don't just get a 3-digit number. The issue here isn't low scores per se, but low scores resulting from poor history.