I don't know why that throwaway account's comment below was removed ... it's ubiquitously well-known that the code quality inside of the Quartz/Athena/other spinoffs at other banks silo is utterly terrible, like don't go within ten feet of it without a radiation hazard suit on.
This is not a controversial opinion, nor really even a swipe at anyone. It's just bad, bad, bad code inside of banks.
I remember talking to someone on the Athena team during a job interview there and they told me that they had to fill out paperwork and wait weeks for approval just to pip install a third-party package for a sandboxed and not-production-facing ad hoc data analysis task. I don't care what industry you're in, that's just taking bureaucracy way too far. I've worked in quant finance before in a highly regulated environment, and there was never the slightest worry that you couldn't just grab any third-party tool you needed to do your job. Getting into production would require a big process, sure, but not just grabbing pandas, say, and answering someone's quick ad hoc business question. In fact, this sort of thing also was never a problem in defense research either.
Anyway, I personally view the fact that the team who spun out of I believe Goldman originally to make the Athena/Quartz/etc stuff (I think now they are even infecting smaller banks like PNC with it too?), is easily one of the worst things that has happened to the world financially in the past 15 years. Sadly not hyperbole.
This is not a controversial opinion, nor really even a swipe at anyone. It's just bad, bad, bad code inside of banks.
I remember talking to someone on the Athena team during a job interview there and they told me that they had to fill out paperwork and wait weeks for approval just to pip install a third-party package for a sandboxed and not-production-facing ad hoc data analysis task. I don't care what industry you're in, that's just taking bureaucracy way too far. I've worked in quant finance before in a highly regulated environment, and there was never the slightest worry that you couldn't just grab any third-party tool you needed to do your job. Getting into production would require a big process, sure, but not just grabbing pandas, say, and answering someone's quick ad hoc business question. In fact, this sort of thing also was never a problem in defense research either.
Anyway, I personally view the fact that the team who spun out of I believe Goldman originally to make the Athena/Quartz/etc stuff (I think now they are even infecting smaller banks like PNC with it too?), is easily one of the worst things that has happened to the world financially in the past 15 years. Sadly not hyperbole.