C# Devs Needed - 3 Years Experience

[joey122]

Yep, my current IB client uses all that lot, plus Mockito, JUnit, etc. Mind you, they've decided all of that is "old hat" now and have jumped on the Groovy/Grails bandwagon. That's now put them up against the other part of the Bank that thinks Scala is the "new Java" and are going that way. Interesting times, even if only for my cv.

What bank do you mind me asking??

In my experience banks are always behind the curve

And hacking away....

[BolshieBastard]

Ah **** it.

Im just gonna start 'updating' by cv specially for the roles Im applying for. Every other ****er is doing it to get in front of the interviewer so they can blag it from there and I dont see why I should miss out!

That and changing my name to Mr A. AAAAA!

[conned tractor]

Ah **** it.

Im just gonna start 'updating' by cv specially for the roles Im applying for. Every other ****er is doing it to get in front of the interviewer so they can blag it from there and I dont see why I should miss out!

That and changing my name to Mr A. AAAAA!

It seems that way from where i'm sitting also.

[swamp]

Working as an IT permie for an IB out of uni would be an excellent choice. Stick it out for two or three years and you'll be made. Much better than working for a body shop.

[Moscow Mule]

And those companies would be..?

Misys, IBM, Sony Home Entertainment all spring to mind as software/hardware companies with a significant UK presence.

I could go trawling for more but I don't want to.

[kingshuk]

Misys, IBM, Sony Home Entertainment all spring to mind as software/hardware companies with a significant UK presence.

I could go trawling for more but I don't want to.

There are more - HP (Bristol HP lab), Sage, Temenos, Fidessa, Symbian, ARM smaller startups in oxford area, game writing companies...Granted not as many as in silicon valley or even Bangalore but still fairly large number.

I worked for IBM after college and it was treasure mine for people who want to be programmers. Great library, really good senior programmers around, mentoring for grads and very good code to look at in really large complex products. Compared to that the work I see grads doing in IB are not really that interesting. They get dreadful code examples to look at and not enough time to learn things properly.

[Scary]

There are more - HP (Bristol HP lab)

Hasn't that recently been completely gutted as HP culminates its transformation from an innovative hardware company that does good research into an assembler and badger of other peoples' bits.

ETA: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/05..._labs_closure/

[kingshuk]

Didn't know that. Their website http://www.hpl.hp.com/bristol/ doesn't say much (expected I guess) and talks about the work done in the 2 labs left now (i,e not 'completely gutted'). Interestingly they have labs now in Beijing and Bangalore too.

[nomadd]

Misys, IBM, Sony Home Entertainment all spring to mind as software/hardware companies with a significant UK presence.

I could go trawling for more but I don't want to.

Worked on-site at Sony. All the interesting work is done overseas, so scratch them.

Worked with IBM jointly on projects for the last 12 years. Believe me, you'd never want to work for them in the UK.

Misys are another body-shop with a bad rep.

I think you need to do a bit more trawling.

[nomadd]

What bank do you mind me asking??

I'll let you know when I've finished fleecing them myself.

In my experience banks are always behind the curve

Retail banks: I agree. IB: I disagree (at least based on the three I've worked for.)

And hacking away....

There, I would have to agree. But as long as they keep signing the timesheet for my "hacking", well...