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What do devs even do at GS?

I mean banks are not an example of technological innovators; if all you’re doing is some HTML changes like a squirrel running in a wheel 80 hours a day you will not be able to handle 40 hours a day in a messy startup environment where devs need to constantly reconcile business logic with changing environment.

Banks don’t require “smart” work; even less so for low-level analysts.

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Constantly reconciling business logic with changing environment is exactly what devs do at GS. GS powers the likes of Apple Card, Stripe Treasury, etc. There’s a lot of engineering required to handle the scale.

There are very few companies that are “technological innovators”. Most SV devs aren’t writing a new distributed system or a process scheduler for the Linux kernel.

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