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> The engineering is paramount. You must be lucky, not everywhere in the sector that’d be remotely close to true unfortunately…
by tatoalo 4y ago
> The engineering is paramount.
You must be lucky, not everywhere in the sector that’d be remotely close to true unfortunately…
- jiggawatts 4y agoHe's probably referring to the trading desk or similar teams. Stock traders forced a lot of advances onto software. Random examples of high-perf stuff from that space include the new garbage collector in the JVM with a minimal pause time and LMAX Disruptor. Multi-threaded GUIs are relatively common in that space as well, to ensure that one hung control or window won't stop anything else.
- scruple 4y agoI've known a handful of software engineers who have stopped through The Trade Desk for a year or less. It doesn't sound like a great place to work to me, despite the high throughput their software demands.