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anakanemison on Jan 12, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Software engineers hard to find

The many trading companies in Chicago also offer software developers interesting problems to solve and attractive compensation.

There's certainly a lot of web work being done in Chicago too, but the trading companies offer developers the chance to focus on enterprise software systems and proprietary high-performance trading applications.

thesis on Jan 12, 2011 [–]

I agree, my cousin is a software engineer for a financial company in Chicago. I doubt this other company could afford him.

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