Re: Programming Skills for Finance Career
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depends what type of job you wind up with:
VBA, MATLAB, C++
front office, quant, IT
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i just came from a headhunter and was told i'm "light on the programming" side of what they need.
i know matlab as a functionality but not user defined functions. i can write basic macros in excel.
top firms want new hires to be able to program at a high level (from the layman's perspective) and a low level (from a comp-sci programmer's perspective)
basically, you should be able to write a program in one of those languages that goes to bloomberg, gets data, inputs it into your model and updates the model.
you want it to be able to then trade on the outputs of that model.
Barron
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