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Want to work in Chicago?

Our interview process mostly consists of asking you questions you should know the answer to. If your answers make sense and you seem pleasant, welcome to the team. Oh, did I mention you'll probably make twice as much here than at Google?

Incidentally, more people want to work at Google than want to work at Bank of America, even though there is plenty of interesting code to write at the Bank, and plenty of boring paperwork to do at Google. It doesn't make sense to me.

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I love Chicago... that sounds good to me.

Could you please give some examples of interesting code at Bank of America?

Fraud detection.

So, BoA wants to detect itself then?

What language(s), tech, framework is used for the software (web-apps? desktop? etc) at BoA?

There are something like 70,000 developers and 300,000 total employees, so it's hard to say anything other than "all of the above".

I mostly use Haskell and Perl. The rest of the department is mostly Perl. Sometimes I do C. Other groups are Python-heavy. There is a big Java and C# presence, and of course a lot of people that think C++ is the only real programming language.

There is some initiative to standardize on C++ and Python, but I doubt that is ever actually going to happen.

You forgot to mention that you would be working for a giant corporate behemoth that is evil to its customers.

I recently went through financial difficulties that involved problems paying 5 different credit cards. Bank of America was by far the most helpful company, actually recommending that I enter into debt management to allow me to pay off my cards at a markedly lower APR without taking a huge hit to my credit.

How exactly are they evil? They borrow your money at a certain rate, and loan it to other people at a higher rate?

Without getting into the evil/not evil argument: This is not quite correct. A bank can lend more money than they have/borrow. The bank must only maintain a specific ratio of equity and loans. For more details see Basel I, Basel II and the upcoming Basel III, which (should) regulate the loans of banks.

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