gs-collections

Not going to comment specifically on the judgement (I agree in general terms). However that is a vast mis-understanding of what a lot of the brain power at an investment bank goes towards. It isn't just equities it is fixed-income and economics as well. But beyond that it isn't just about valuation. It is everything from working on how to actually clear transactions, building dark pools and similar platforms, research and building very real tech on blockchain, building security and infrastructure tooling. Goldman literally invented a programming language (although it is showing it's age at this point). They make very robust Open Source contributions: https://github.com/goldmansachs/gs-collections (just an example). Regardless of if what they do is immoral or silly or both, they are building interesting stuff and solving hard problems. A b

They do, and it's pretty cool: https://github.com/goldmansachs/gs-collections

A lot of the other points in the article are "headline grabbing". That's a rather disappointing article. I'd have liked to have seen a deeper analysis of the arguments used. It seems to be a skim-read summary of all of the articles I've already read on this, but with less actual substance/no new content. From the article: "Imagine you're a highly skilled programmer, perhaps an immigrant like Aleynikov, unfamiliar with the intricacies of the U.S. legal system and not 100 percent confident in your English skills. You're probably more at ease dealing with machines and the abstract tasks they solve when interpreting code than with people -- otherwise you'd do something else for a living. " What the heck?! What kind of professional writer writes something so child-like/troll-like? Another: "Traditional banks tend not to be such smart employers

I could not belive my eyes when I have learned about GS Collections library for Java [https://github.com/goldmansachs/gs-collections]. Very nice piece of open source code with a very good documentation. I had to double check if I am looking at the right place...

Finance in particular has way too many people who think things like this are a good idea and The Right Thing To Do: https://github.com/goldmansachs/gs-collections . I think that's a pretty unfair criticism. Firstly, it isn't clear exactly what you don't like about it. That it is Java? That it exists? You need to put its existence into historical context. When it came out, it was before Google's Guava collections libraries were open source, so there were no decent collections libraries that did more than what the JDK libraries did. That's the context GS Collections were built for. (Disclaimer: I've never used them, but I do remember when they were released)

2x of silicon valley and then bonus on top, but that required moving into finance. It also helped that my previous employer was Apple, it opened many doors when it came time to interview. The fact of the matter is that other industries are starved for talent. If you can keep up in silicon valley, where all anyone talks about is technology, you will be godly in a different marketplace with more capital flow. Finance in particular has way too many people who think things like this are a good idea and The Right Thing To Do: https://github.com/goldmansachs/gs-collections

What about people finding issues with their code: https://github.com/goldmansachs/gs-collections/issues/2 ?