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Re: Programmers with network engineering skills
From: Rodrick Brown <rodrick.brown () gmail com>
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2012 20:04:04 -0500
On Feb 27, 2012, at 7:53 PM, William Herrin <bill () herrin us> wrote:
On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 3:22 PM, Owen DeLong <owen () delong com> wrote:On Feb 27, 2012, at 12:02 PM, Brandt, Ralph wrote:Generalists are hard to come by these days.I think you're more likely to find a network engineer with (possibly limited) programming skills.I wish. For the past three months I've been trying to find a network engineer with a deep TCP/IP protocol understanding, network security expertise, some Linux experience, minor programming skill with sockets and a TS/SCI clearance. The clearance is killing me. The two generalists didn't have a clearance and the cleared applicants are programmers or admins but never both. On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 6:12 PM, Rodrick Brown <rodrick.brown () gmail com> wrote:Good Luck guys like these are being scooped up by large financial firms and hedgefunds and they don't come cheap ~$250k easy!Not all of them. I've been approached a few times but there is something sleazy about helping a bunch of tycoons do millisecond timing attacks against the market. The money doesn't magically appear. Every dollar they squeeze out that way is stolen from some grandmother who has held the stock for 20 years.
Try explaining the number of ex-Bell Lab R&D folks working on trading desks these days. A major financial firm I worked for in the past directly targeted candidates from the telecom industry. In recent news a russian programmer who allegedly stole Goldman Sachs proprietary code was making $400k/year and he's probably still on the market looking for work :-)
Regards, Bill Herrin -- William D. Herrin ................ herrin () dirtside com bill () herrin us 3005 Crane Dr. ...................... Web: <http://bill.herrin.us/> Falls Church, VA 22042-3004
Current thread:
- Re: Programmers with network engineering skills, (continued)
- Re: Programmers with network engineering skills Daniel Schauenberg (Feb 27)
- RE: Programmers with network engineering skills Holmes,David A (Feb 27)
- RE: Programmers with network engineering skills Brandt, Ralph (Feb 28)
- Re: Programmers with network engineering skills Owen DeLong (Feb 28)
- Re: Programmers with network engineering skills Lamar Owen (Feb 28)
- Re: Programmers with network engineering skills Jay Ashworth (Feb 27)
- Re: Programmers with network engineering skills Doug Barton (Feb 27)
- Re: Programmers with network engineering skills Doug Barton (Feb 27)
- RE: Programmers with network engineering skills Jared Newell (Feb 27)
- Re: Programmers with network engineering skills William Herrin (Feb 27)
- Re: Programmers with network engineering skills Rodrick Brown (Feb 27)
- Re: Programmers with network engineering skills Jason Bertoch (Feb 27)
- Re: Programmers with network engineering skills George Herbert (Feb 27)
- Re: Programmers with network engineering skills Robert E. Seastrom (Feb 29)
- RE: Programmers with network engineering skills Jamie Bowden (Feb 28)
- Re: Programmers with network engineering skills Jeroen van Aart (Feb 28)
- RE: Programmers with network engineering skills George Bonser (Feb 28)
- Re: Programmers with network engineering skills Lamar Owen (Feb 28)
- Re: Programmers with network engineering skills George Herbert (Feb 28)
- Re: Programmers with network engineering skills Keegan Holley (Feb 28)