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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.
    :-P

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mike - Limestone View Post
    lol compared to their average salary (in the ballpark of $700,000), he was underpaid
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    Am I the only one whom cannot see the rest of the text? lol.
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    Thats nuts!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Quartz_ View Post
    Am I the only one whom cannot see the rest of the text? lol.
    No, I can only see the first few paragraphs

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    I always feel underpaid, that what drive us.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Quartz_ View Post
    Am I the only one whom cannot see the rest of the text? lol.
    Weirdness. It lets me view it all, and I am not a subscriber. Sorry, though!

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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.....
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mike - Limestone View Post
    Wow! $400,000 - that'd buy a lot of groceries!
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    Quote Originally Posted by quad3datwork View Post
    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.....
    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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    Quote Originally Posted by hellind2 View Post
    Oil & Marine are now one of the highest paid industry, financial services too.
    Very good point.

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    Quote Originally Posted by hellind2
    I always feel underpaid, that what drive us.
    Aren't we all underpaid in the web hosting business?

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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.
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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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    Quote Originally Posted by DHD-Nick View Post
    Aren't we all underpaid in the web hosting business?
    Depends on what company you're working for an how high on the totem pole you are with said company

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    Quote Originally Posted by UsefulPC View Post
    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.
    Well put. That is a fair bit of income to make up!

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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."
    He got what he deserved

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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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    The dollar has lost 97% of its value since 1913. Eventually we'll all be making that much.

    Glad the guy got busted.
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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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