Exactly, so what is this Armen character getting out of this other than a potentially big amount of liability and unarticulated risk.
The OP said he told people openly that Armen told him he could do it when asked.
This makes no sense to me, what’s the upside to Armen? If he is business savvy, he needs to be gaining something in exchange for having his name thrown around by OP as signing off on this.
Guess the Python was useful? From an FT article:
>In 2011 Goldman Sachs put its top computer wizard, Armen Avanessians, in charge of the division. He has helped turn round its fortunes. The arm’s assets under management reached a nadir of $38bn in 2012, but it now manages $91.8bn...
Wow hope OP got a chunk of that!
It's a bank, so probably his reward for good performance was 10k at Christmas.
Hahahah 10k maybe if he was a new intern. Off by an order of magnitude
Re:An oral history of Bank Python
by dustintrex on Friday November 05, 2021 @01:53AM
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You may have dropped a couple of zeroes there.
Maybe that bank is more generous. The one I worked at begrudgingly counted out the pennies like it was coming out of the war orphans fund or something.
He's doing his job, which is to ensure people have the tools and resources available to do their jobs. You know, furthering the goals of the organisation.
Armen must have known people would know Python had been put on these machines and that he authorised it, in fact what's the point of putting it on them if nobody knows and nobody uses it? I can guarantee you that within 24 hours someone was asking Armen why he'd authorised this and was justifying it. There cannot have been any possibility of dodging responsibility for this decision. If anyone got fired it would have been Armen, with a possibility of Sean going as collateral damage.
This is the big league. You make your decisions and you accept responsibility for them.