I was consulting for a multinational on a commodities trading app. I broke the stuff sending trade data to the Risk Management system that does automatic hedge trades. My manager comes down the hall and tells me I've caused $4 million in exposure in the past two hours. At the end, her comment is: "A million here, a million there, business as usual!"
I told that story to a former coworker, and he pointed out, "Well, your boss was calm about it. I bet those traders were livid!"
Yes, it was my fault. And we fixed it and rolled that out to production in minutes. And those trades probably got their hedge trades done manually. But at the moment, it seems pretty bad.
I was consulting for a multinational on a commodities trading app. I broke the stuff sending trade data to the Risk Management system that does automatic hedge trades. My manager comes down the hall and tells me I've caused $4 million in exposure in the past two hours. At the end, her comment is: "A million here, a million there, business as usual!"
I told that story to a former coworker, and he pointed out, "Well, your boss was calm about it. I bet those traders were livid!"