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A comment on Ask HN: How does one get into contracting for financial institutes?.

Re:Ask HN: How does one get into contracting for financial i... by zpk on Friday April 05, 2013 @10:18AM (#5498544)
Financial industry as a whole is under a lot of stress right now. The jobs opps out there are shrinking...Banks talk about going lean, AKA layoffs. If you can't get into an investment bank, go for a tertiary opportunity. Try retail or some insurance company for a year or two.

You need Java or C++. Web/SOA/ and for some reason they all want multithreading experience, even though 80% of the work is server side. Familiarize yourself with the Java Concurrency package.

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Re:Ask HN: How does one get into contracting for financial i... by gringofyx on Saturday April 06, 2013 @08:01AM (#5503337)
Web & SOA are a given, design patterns and high performance concurrency are all a given and there's strong signs of that all over my CV. Also, I've worked at Insurance companies before, I thought all of that might be enough to get my foot in the door.
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