I work in finance as a developer, and I have found there is also a demand for high performance C++/C software people - our development team is composed mostly o

I work in finance as a developer, and I have found there is also a demand for high performance C++/C software people - our development team is composed mostly of ex-telecom engineers from Cisco et al. The performance is a priority when trading latencies are involved. Large investment banks (like any large company) have many different needs for software, and each of those have their own priorities. That being said, we have a sizable J2EE team as well.