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Re:An oral history of Bank Python by tim333 on Thursday November 04, 2021 @09:18PM (#29114417)
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...

Re:An oral history of Bank Python by sizzle on Thursday November 04, 2021 @11:20PM (#29115091)
Wow hope OP got a chunk of that!
Re:An oral history of Bank Python by Sunspark on Friday November 05, 2021 @12:35AM (#29115500)
It's a bank, so probably his reward for good performance was 10k at Christmas.
Re:An oral history of Bank Python by boringg on Friday November 05, 2021 @10:05AM (#29119401)
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 (#29115912)
You may have dropped a couple of zeroes there.
Re:An oral history of Bank Python by Sunspark on Friday November 05, 2021 @03:47PM (#29123965)
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.