If have raised this question once before and I got it now. I used to confuse why a guy could spend his one year salary in a night gambling. If you could help a guy win a million bet, you deserve a thousand dollar. Is that clear ?

<t>QuotePlenty of jobs can fetch you 80K fresh out of school, including computer scienceI doubt about it. I'm looking for job over 4 months without hope. The starting salary for developer is around 40K-50K a year. It could increase 10 K a year for a period of first few years then you should prepare ...

<t>I'm not quant person. But when I read through the salary of quant developer, it's just so unfair! With the starting salary of $80,000, it's almost double to compare with other major. I'm computer science guy, fresh out of school last year and bound back into school for grad study because no job a...

How about Java ? J2EE ? C#? .NET?

Any open-source program is used in Finance Industry ? How popular Unix ( Linux in particular) in IT department ? Thanks

<t>How about the security in dedicated inter-bank network? The network and computer system that process and transfer finance data? Who would handle that? An in-house security officer? Sorry I didn't know much about that matter... I want to take some courses in computational finance (Math is my stren...

<t>I currently enrolled in MCS program and doing research in Computer Security. What would it take to get an employment in Financial Institution ? I still have another year to complete the program. I don't mind to go for extra course loads if needed.I'm in Canada. Quite worry because of my age (33 b...

What softwares, development tools, languages did you use in your company? I often learnt that VB, C++ languages, MatLab software are among the most popular, is that true?