Two very capable friend of mine went from Game Development to working in different Banks/Trading Houses in London. They both told horror stories of: - Correcti

Two very capable friend of mine went from Game Development to working in different Banks/Trading Houses in London. They both told horror stories of: - Correcting the interviewer on C++ intricacies IN the interview. - Very poor process of dev/test/release cycles - Management of 'uptime' by having c++ devs on call 24/7 with Limo's, hotel rooms etc but no thought to proper testing, regression or postmortem. - Managers that managed by fear and intimidation - People who were clearly there because they were the only ones who could understand the shambles of code they'd written and were paid astronomically to not leave. In general they were mathematicians who were presumably great at maths and poor at engineering software. While they were both very good and have moved on to more interesting ventures they earned more in a few years of pain then they would have in 20 years of game development so it was worth it for them.