planning on switching my career to finance. how to go about it.

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Best spot would be as a developer actually sitting on a trading desk. Probably will be tough for you to land,

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good developers are very hard to come by, I agree it might be more difficult to get than other programming jobs but it's definitely doable. I would talk to some recruiters that specialize in finance as well. I don't think where you went to school will matter all that much, but your mileage may vary of course.