Ask HN: Why does software development suck so much in finance?
I've been working as a dev at a hedge fund for less than a year and I just can't believe how awful it is:- all I do is operate and maintain hacky old ETL jobs- I spend hours and sometimes days editing databases and config files- there are no best practices- issues are swept under the rug or just passed around the team until people forget about them- my manager is a manger because he's the only...