Talk:Hweidar Jian

I worked with Hweidar, or as I knew him, "Dar", at my first job in New York City, at Salomon Brothers, at 2 New York Plaza on Water Street in the early 1990s. Then, we both were transferred to Salomon's New Jersey facility near the Meadowlands Sports Arena. At some point, he left Salomon and went back to New York as a consultant at DLJ. When I became tired of working at Salomon in NJ, he was instrumental in getting me an interview at DLJ, and even though at this interview I was unable to explain the difference between the "open" function and the "fopen" function in the C language, (because, unlike the hopelessly geeky interviewer, I did not lie awake at night studying C manuals, and was only familiar with parts of C that I actually had to use in a work situation), he was able to convince the powers that be that I was indeeed qualified for the position at hand.

But, please, do not get the wrong idea, namely that I am writing this rememberance because of what Dar did for me. I am simply writing this to say that he was quite brilliant, certainly not above criticizing the traders he worked so hard for, but never in a condescending manner, yet only in a manner that made clear that he only wanted to provide them with the best system he could.