>the assumption is that you are a cookie cutter, untalented programmer
What is it exactly that a finance programmer does? I've honestly no idea and would love to know out of curiosity.
What is it exactly that a finance programmer does? I've honestly no idea and would love to know out of curiosity.
Since finance these days is pretty much just bits on a wire and in some database there are a lot of requirements for redundancy, performance, reconciliations etc. lots of things to make sure your money doesn't just disappear. There's a lot of risk aversion for understandable reasons so most development is in battle tested/supported technologies like Java, relational dbs and C# more recently.
That is not to say that there is no cutting edge development as some banks have developed their own programming languages, databases, and large amounts of internal frameworks. From personal experience there's also a much larger push for developer efficiency with adoption of dynamic languages, nosql dbs and even practices like continuous deployment.
1) What's the point, really? Most all finance is really just ... not useful to anything. As an aside, Margin Call gets this point exactly right.
2) In most parts of finance, technology is a cost-center. Unlike other professions, there are truly sectors where technology is king, and developers impact the world around them.