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I work in a company where that can happen. In fact we had just a case today. For the last 20 years, our ever growing C# monster application used across the world to make millions, literally, had random crashes. Comes with volume spike, usage spike, we never quite knew: everything would display a red cross, the gdi handlers would reach 10k and bam. For 19 year we just looked at it in defeat. For the last year, bit on…
2 hours lunch are you guys hiring?
But seriously, look at tier-2 investment banks: we're nicer and less stressed than the Goldmans of the world but still make more money than most. And problems are interesting I find. But you need to like handling money and not "changing the world" in any shape or form.