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Re:Ask HN: Have you ever thought of leaving programming for ... by Grishnakh on Tuesday November 08, 2016 @11:54AM (#12901791)
>I learned quickly, eventually got good at interviews, and ultimately got a job at bloomberg, which is fairly difficult to get past their interiew process.

Bloomberg, where it's just one giant open noisy room? Doesn't sound like much of a reward to me.

Personally, I wish I had never gone into programming. I wanted a profession where I could sit in peace and quiet and work on interesting intellectual problems on my own. Little did I know that programming would not be like that after the year 2010. If I had known this, I would have chosen a different profession, probably something involving medicine, since at least there's lots of women in those workplaces.

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Re:Ask HN: Have you ever thought of leaving programming for ... by amelius on Tuesday November 08, 2016 @12:05PM (#12901914)
> If I had known this, I would have chosen a different profession, probably something involving medicine

You can still work in a medical field, for example, as a bio-informatician.

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Re:Ask HN: Have you ever thought of leaving programming for ... by digler999 on Tuesday November 08, 2016 @12:34PM (#12902204)
The point of my comment was not that bloomberg was an awesome reward. I only stayed a year, and yes it was noisy as hell. The floor sounded like a drum when people walked on it. My point was that I went from a blundering buffoon in an interview to passing a notoriously difficult software engineering interview in 8 years (with a few jobs in between).
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Re:Ask HN: Have you ever thought of leaving programming for ... by Grishnakh on Tuesday November 08, 2016 @04:56PM (#12904298)
Good point. Was turnover high there? Did you manage to find a place with a better working environment?
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Re:Ask HN: Have you ever thought of leaving programming for ... by digler999 on Tuesday November 08, 2016 @05:05PM (#12904368)
I think turnover is pretty high there. People dont want to get locked into BB's proprietary (or in some cases antiquated) technologies. However, there are tons of departments, many of them are modernized, and you can really learn a lot for your first few years out of school. If you stay and are faithful you can go up the ranks.

I am doing fine. I went contractor, and currently in healthcare / imaging. I dont even sweat interviews anymore :)

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