While searching for some good interviewing questions for some candidates we have coming in (you are rolling your eyes at that one, but I swear that it's true!), I came upon this site, presumably created by the guy who wrote So You Want To Be a Wall Street Programmer .
Will all people who are applying to my group please *not* read this site, as I don't want you to see the questions that I am going to be asking you....
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Dude what do you think the adaptation of new .net framework 3.0 things like WPF will be by big firms? Do you think WPF will be the new thing in demand...
According to the people who I know at Microsoft who serve the financial comunity in New York, adoptation is proceeding slowly, but already a number of companies have expressed strong interest in using WPF. Goldman and Morgan Stanley already have projects going. I hear that Citi is looking at it seriously. New visualizations for traders is something that everyone is really interested in.
I can see a lot of demand for WPF and for WCF, but only once the Wall Street firms start upgrading their workstations from Win2K/XP to Vista. That move is sure to cause some pain, as Vista is best installed on new hardware. Also, there are too many homegrown security solutions that will probably cause conflict with Vista.
WCF also needs to support EMS and RV for it to be successful on Wall Street. Plain old Socket and Http support won't do it.
Lab49 did a presentation on WPF recently at FinExpo in London. Matt says that the audience was small but enthusiastic. London seems to lead the US by a few months with regards to adopting new technology, so look across the seas first.
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