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I guarantee that higher quality pay will give you access to a higher quality talent pool.
Unless you are doing latency sensitive high frequency trading, why would you use C++? Wouldn’t Go or Java suffice?
I think this is because the pool of jobs for C++ programmers is so small.
I took a position as a web dev at a company whose main product was a CAD application. Most of my work was in NodeJS, but occasionally, I'd have to dip into the C/C++ layer to make some API changes to facilitate my JS development. When my project was cancelled, I was given the option to move to a team doing all C++ development for the desktop app. I gave it some thought and realized that this was probably the only company within 100 miles who needed C++ developers, and that most of the people I worked with were hired out of college.
I left immediate afterwards. I didn't want to be stuck in my 40s-50s with a unless skillset and have to start back from the beginning. I'm sure other people considering fintech work feel similarly. We live in a world where people keep their jobs for 2-5 years, meaning we live in a world where workers need to consider the needs of the entire job market, not the needs of an individual company.
I guarantee that higher quality pay will give you access to a higher quality talent pool.
These are financial firms griping about the lack of developers. They're some of the highest paid developers in the world. But working for these companies is also insanely stressful. Long hours, high pressure. Maybe that reputation has caught up to them.
It did. Comp is nowhere near FAANG and the work culture is still stuck in the 90's.
Go to any college and talk to students looking for internships. Finance firms are nowhere near the top of their list.
Starting in the mid-2000s, C++ started feeling like a different language at each company I worked at. Different libraries allowed, c-style versus STL coding, even completely different ideas about how classes should be written.
I looked at some recent language proposals and didn't even understand what the code was doing. Saying "I know C++" is too vague and almost certainly incorrect.
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These are financial firms griping about the lack of developers. They're some of the highest paid developers in the world. But working for these companies is also insanely stressful. Long hours, high pressure. Maybe that reputation has caught up to them.
Last time I looked at the finance industry, which was admittedly a while ago, I saw a C++ job that listed the salary as being around $100k. Sounds reasonable. In New York City. Oh . Compare to Google salaries, on levels.fyi for example. I know they're not theoretical or inaccurate because I worked at Google for a while. If you really want to do C++ professionally, that and maybe other FAANG companies seem like they'd…
Does your junior job requires ten years of experience ?
I decided it wasn't worth pursuing, went from doing Clojure to Big Data in Scala.
Ten years later, I hear that there's not enough "C++ developers", read, "C++ developers with the desired qualifications". Seems straightforward to figure out why.
Unless you are doing latency sensitive high frequency trading, why would you use C++? Wouldn’t Go or Java suffice?
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