Re:What happened to all the female developers?
by kragen on Tuesday July 26, 2011 @07:09PM
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I met a bank programmer a couple of years ago. He was driving a taxi. Apparently when his bank got bought by another bank, they laid off the whole IT department.
Re:What happened to all the female developers?
by dasil003 on Tuesday July 26, 2011 @02:19PM
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Plus you have the added security that if the brass really fucks things up the government is there to pick up the slack (at least in the U.S.).
Re:What happened to all the female developers?
by akronim on Wednesday July 27, 2011 @01:30AM
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If you work at a bank there's a good chance you'll next laid off en masse as soon when there's a really bad year.
Re:What happened to all the female developers?
by Sandman on Thursday July 28, 2011 @06:11PM
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Well, as far as my bank is concerned, nobody got laid off during the recent recession (I don't work in the US, mind you). There was just a hiring freeze and smaller bonuses at the end of the year. We really weren't hit that hard.
Well, yes and no :). Depends on where you work. If you work at a tech company then yeah, that's probably not the most secure workplace, but I work at a bank, and the only way you're ever going to get fired from there is if you're a really, really crappy worker, or if you screw up big time.