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Re:Coders who trade: Wall Street designs its staff for the f... by nerfhammer on Friday November 17, 2017 @08:40PM (#15727338)
If literally an engineer, not an executive that used to be an engineer or a famous engineer, this is accomplished by winning the stock options lottery.

It seems plausible to me at least that there are more ordinary engineers that have won the stock options lottery across all of tech than the total that are earning equivalent amounts in finance.

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Re:Coders who trade: Wall Street designs its staff for the f... by vasilipupkin on Friday November 17, 2017 @09:09PM (#15727419)
Well, there are more engineers working in tech than in finance. The relevant question is the odds of a particular engineer winning the options lottery than 7 figures in finance
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