At the very least, quantitative analysts are some of the most technically gifted people I've had the pleasure of working with. Another area of finance dominate

At the very least, quantitative analysts are some of the most technically gifted people I've had the pleasure of working with. Another area of finance dominated by talented people would be high frequency trading. It's one of a few industries where system latency is often more important than system throughput, which leads to some very interesting low-level problems.