210 Zappos employees – 14% of the staff – take buyouts after CEO ultimatum

Re:210 Zappos employees – 14% of the staff – take buyouts af... by istvan__ on Sunday May 10, 2015 @01:26AM (#9518942)

I guess analytical skills, math probably, but these are pretty general. What unique skills are you thinking about?

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Re:210 Zappos employees – 14% of the staff – take buyouts af... by rifung on Sunday May 10, 2015 @02:07AM (#9519036)

I don't have the slightest idea since I don't work there. I was more wondering if there was anything I would need to know before applying specific to the industry or if it's just like any other software engineering job.

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Re:210 Zappos employees – 14% of the staff – take buyouts af... by macavity23 on Sunday May 10, 2015 @01:01PM (#9520500)

To succeed in financial dev you need to be comfortable working in a heavyweight, slow large-corporate environment. Think lots of meetings, lots of time estimation & metrics, using Java, C# or C++ (shudder), people caring what you wear. If you can deal with this, the rewards are great. If you can't, it's hell.

There are finance startups where the above doesn't apply, but they don't pay like the banks do.

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Re:210 Zappos employees – 14% of the staff – take buyouts af... by infinite8s on Monday May 11, 2015 @10:44AM (#9525094)

What you describe in the first paragraph aren't roles that pay 400k...

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Re:210 Zappos employees – 14% of the staff – take buyouts af... by SEJeff on Sunday May 10, 2015 @12:54PM (#9520473)

Math... and a lot of it. Look up job descriptions for a Quantitative Developer or Quantitative Analyst.

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