May 21st, 2007, 2:22 pm
I believe that BB actively tried to make data hard to get. It values the "relationship" it has with traders, and in my experience their reps do not ever want to speak to anyone who's not a trader.They don't return calls from anyone doing development for that platform, as far as I can tell that is policy.My "favourite" was taking a junior trader along to some meeting with BB.BBrep actually wouldn't look at me, even though I was doing all the talking, and kept firing questions of a nature that someone at junior trader level could not possibly answer.As inBBer : Are you going to be doing X ?Trader: Don't know, ask DominicBBer: We think that X is importantTrader: Not sure what X is, that's Dominic's areaBBer: Doing X this way is really important because of Y.Trader: (annoyed that he is having shit he doesn't understand fired at him, whilst I'm sitting next to him) "Dominic runs this"BBer: You see X is aAt this point I but in, and ask him which bit of "Head of IT" he'd failed to grasp in my job title.BBer didn't bat an eyelid, and still kept addressing the trader.That was funny in it's own way, but not an isolated incident.Fact is that this process works for BB. They've decided that relationships with traders are all that matters.They hate quant developers. By comparison my firm was going head to head with Cantor Fitzgerald and costing them non-trivial money.These competitors were more polite to me than BB who we paid 1K per month per screen.CF actually served me nice tea served by pretty ladies and bought me beer.
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DominicConnor on May 20th, 2007, 10:00 pm, edited 1 time in total.