> But if you work somewhere where they do software development on the side (science, hardware, etc..) it is the main issue I have seen this working in finance.

> But if you work somewhere where they do software development on the side (science, hardware, etc..) it is the main issue I have seen this working in finance. I worked at a startup with a quant, and my job became waiting for him to go home at 6 so I could clean up his code and make it maintainable the next day. Now I don't blame him- his background was operations research and he was a professor prior, without any real software background. But, he would get legit mad at me for messing with his code. We had a really tense relationship for awhile. I would occasionally break things, but he didn't really have tests until much later, so it was hard to detect and there were often subtle side effects. But anyway, I think for awhile he thought I was just a pain in the ass, until one day about 9 months after we started the project, and he wanted to run some experiments using a specific universe of securities, and just apply a few constraints to them, and I set this up for him in about 5 lines of code, and all of a sudden, I could just see the light bulb finally turn on for him as to why I was doing all of these things. After that day we became a lot more friendly.