Comment by bigmac
16 years ago
I'm doubtful that anyone with a VP-Level title at BofA is writing software. I have a feeling you're comparing entirely different jobs here.
Additionally, Lockheed built (among other things) the SR-71 and the F22. Its probably a safe bet to say that writing the control systems for those machines took more skill than "the simplest computer program."
Financial services firms are FULL of Vice Presidents. At Merrill Lynch, we had a 23-year old, 2 years out of school who was an Assistant VP and many mid/late-20s engineers as VPs. [Almost] All of us wrote code all day long.
(BofA has since purchase MER, long after I left.)
The promotion progression is Officer -> Assistant Vice President -> Vice President -> Director -> ...