I'm not entirely surprised. A few months ago (a year and a half! wow!) GS hired Ulrich Drepper, the longtime project lead of the GNU C library. I also read ano

I'm not entirely surprised. A few months ago (a year and a half! wow!) GS hired Ulrich Drepper, the longtime project lead of the GNU C library. I also read another article (no way I can find it again now) saying how big investment banks are hiring more and more software engineers. Disclaimer: I work in IT for a large investment bank which's gradually outsourcing all its IT department to south asian countries.