Wall Street looks beyond elite college degrees for coders
In era of new tech meritocracy, the banking industry evaluates programmers based on objective measurements, not pedigree
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FOR almost five years, Gregory Furlong worked 50-hour weeks as a shipping clerk at a Best Buy two miles (3.2km) from his childhood home in Wilmington, Delaware. It was a kind of employment purgatory for a computer obsessive who tinkers with motherboards in his free time.
So last year, Mr Furlong, 30, enrolled in a three-month coding boot camp that uses HackerRank, a Web platform that trains and grades people on writing computer code. After earning a top ranking for Java developers globally, Mr Furlong was hired by JPMorgan Chase in December for its two-year technology training programme.
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