Last day

Today is my last day at the bank. Hooray!

It’s been an interesting 3 months. I’ve learnt heaps, programming in C#, Java and C++. Wearing a shirt every day and trying to get to work by 9am every day. I think I actually did some useful stuff too.

We ended up running out of time on the most interesting project though. We had one month to implement it, while trying to understand the maths at the same time. I can’t really go into the details, but it had to calculate millions of numbers and hopefully come up with a good result. It ‘converged’ under certain circumstances, but we felt there was a problem with the underlying maths. We couldn’t seem to optimize the solution at all. That’s pretty vague and all, but we did some hard stuff, it didn’t quite work, but it was worth the try anyway. They’ll probably tweak it after I’m gone so that’s good.