> as soon as you load up your trading firm with a bunch of software industry hires

As a software industry hire at a hedge fund right now... I'd love to see more cross-pollination, because there are so many good things happening on both sides, and so many terrible things happening through just a sheer lack of knowledge.

Change management workflows are great and should be used more in finance. But software companies should implement andon cord systems more often (Amazon does; nowhere else I've worked gives that power to anybody at the company).