I received that same response a few times in the past year. There are a couple of reasons for it: * Banks are extremely well regulated for obvious reasons. Sof

I received that same response a few times in the past year. There are a couple of reasons for it: * Banks are extremely well regulated for obvious reasons. Software is not regulated at all to the point of extreme immaturity and gross negligence. Nobody in software even wants to talk it. * Financial services industry moves slow. A frozen mammoth runs faster. That means no panic mode of indecision. Some software companies will expect you to pivot on a dime, or rather compensate for their planning/architecture failure elsewhere. * Some companies want you to play with a 1000 different tools and live in trend bullshit. You likely aren’t doing that at a bank. Configuration hell isn’t really programming so consider that as a missed loss. —- I learned a lot from interviewing at more than 2 dozen places. Software is incredibly immature. The lower the barrier to entry the more immature and discriminatory it becomes. Keep in mind developers talk a lot of bullshit during interviews. Everybody claims to want high performance, but almost nobody measures performance in any regard. I dropped out of a Facebook interview over this stupidity. Everybody claims to want simplicity. When you can prove or talk through extreme simplicity most developers find it abhorrent. Instead they want familiarity and any deviation is met with disgust or arrogance. I also learned that I had a lot of free time at a bank in which I could learn to become a much better developer. Strangely, almost nobody in interviews wanted to talk about actual engineering of software. It made me realize I’m old and software is a game for young people looking to make big money in a job where expectations are extremely low.