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I worked for Lloyds TSB around 2003/2004. In banking the domain knowledge (banking & finance) is more valuable then the technology knowledge. There was a guy at Lloyds who couldn’t write a line of code, but he know every field and every column and what that field meant and why it was there.

This guy was as close to unfireable (is that a word) as it gets.

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That sounds familiar. I was there too around 2003-2005, very little of what has been said surprised me and rang a lot of bells from my time there. Hugely siloed and with very strict hierarchies.

This is why I'm leaving fintech for good. Is healthcare worse??

Having read a bit, yeah it seems worse. At least banking is about numbers you can put in a spreadsheet, health less so.

You would think domain knowledge extended to not using floating point values for a balance, I just downloaded a CSV statement and it's full of entries that look like 1234.560000000003.

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