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07-06-2009, 01:55 PM #1Web Hosting Master
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Yikes! Ever felt underpaid?
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124688855704700671.html
The filing said at some point before June, [computer programmer] Mr. Aleynikov told Goldman Sachs he would resign. His salary at the time of his resignation was about $400,000 a year.
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07-07-2009, 05:41 AM #6Web Hosting Master
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I always feel underpaid, that what drive us.
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That's interesting... those financial institutions got too much money to blow. Goldman Sachs used my old company's time-series database and applications to plot. Ironically, I was the SA for them. Took care of all the applications and server. The server was SPARC on Solaris 5.8.
Yes, I do feel underpaid. But can't go wrong working for energy/oil company! Everyone needs oil.....SysAdmin.xyz
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07-07-2009, 11:36 PM #10Web Hosting Master
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Interesting, what do you work as of now? What's a time-series database? Yes, this russian programmer was paid a lot to write software that could make millions more to the company, it was a software dealing with contracts and futures.
Oil & Marine are now one of the highest paid industry, financial services too.
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07-08-2009, 12:30 AM #12Web Hosting Master
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07-08-2009, 12:40 AM #13Junior Guru Wannabe
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In the court filing, FBI Special Agent Michael G. McSwain alleged that Mr. Aleynikov claimed after being arrested that he intended only to gather "open source" files that he had worked on, then "realized that he had obtained more files than he intended." Mr. Aleynikov told federal agents that he didn't intend to hand over Goldman's secret code to anyone.VPS User
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07-08-2009, 06:10 AM #14Web Hosting Guru
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That is one heck of a salary. It seems crazy that he'd even contemplate needing to steal information from Goldman Sachs. It would take alot to develop that amount of income from his own business.
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A Goldman Sachs Group Inc. computer programmer who quit last month was arrested and charged with stealing codes related to a high-speed trading program that he helped develop.
The programmer, Sergey Aleynikov, 39 years old, was arrested Friday by Federal Bureau of Investigation agents as he got off a plane at Newark Liberty International Airport. According to a complaint filed Saturday, Mr. Aleynikov downloaded 32 megabytes of data from Goldman's computer system with "the intent to convert that trade secret to the economic benefit of someone other than the owner."
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Gee, I wonder what is wrong with this country's economy...it cant be the crazy unnecessary salaries could it? How can anyone be worth that? Steve Jobs is only worth $1 a year..lol
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07-09-2009, 06:43 AM #20Web Hosting Master
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This is common practise, everyone of us take the code we help develop for our company even though we signed off on company secrecy. I am curious as to how Goldman Sachs come to know?
The source code is already there on his desktop, all he has to do was download to his thumbdrive and sneak out of the office.
I dont' condone it though, just that this is common practise.
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