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Re:How Hackers Stole 200,000 Citi Accounts Just By Changing ... by joe_the_user on Wednesday June 15, 2011 @12:42PM (#2657837)
That's hair-raising. I have only a small amount of financial firm experience. I'm just used to ordinary software development being white-boarded first.
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Re:How Hackers Stole 200,000 Citi Accounts Just By Changing ... by tptacek on Wednesday June 15, 2011 @12:56PM (#2657896)
People forget that statistically the devs hanging around on HN are in the top brackets. The overwhelming majority of devs are 9-5 paycheck players with exactly the level of competence required to execute J2EE and .NET CRUD apps that pass internal acceptance testing.

If you are an enterprise dev with a knack for making web apps that are't horribly insecure, and you don't have a phantasmagorically awesome comp package already, more advice: start looking for new gigs. You're underemployed.

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Re:How Hackers Stole 200,000 Citi Accounts Just By Changing ... by noonespecial on Wednesday June 15, 2011 @04:31PM (#2658905)
The problem is to the PHB's in HR, there doesn't appear to be a difference between you and the guy who just makes it work, security-be-damned except that you likely take longer and cost more.
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Re:How Hackers Stole 200,000 Citi Accounts Just By Changing ... by auzieo on Wednesday June 15, 2011 @01:39PM (#2658169)
What's the lower bound for a phantasmagorically awesome comp package? I am not good at evaluating the fairness of my current salary.
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Re:How Hackers Stole 200,000 Citi Accounts Just By Changing ... by jacquesgt on Wednesday June 15, 2011 @04:56PM (#2658987)
In a market like the New York, Boston, or Seattle areas, with 5+ years of experience, a top tier software engineer should be able to pull down $100k salary plus 401(k), a good health insurance package (ie, something better than a high deductible plan plus HSA), and long term/short term disability insurance. Adjust the salary number for your local cost of living.
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