Programming skills?

[Oscarg1]

<p>What programming skills are necessary to become an investment banker? C++?</p>

[Viviste]

<p>I’ve heard VB. Macroing if you want to call that programming (and neither are requirements).</p>

<p>C++ is not required nor expected.</p>

[ParentOfIvyHope]

<p>Unless you are talking about the following IT and Systems jobs at Investment Banks, programming skills are not required.</p>

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Some of the best jobs in computers and information systems are on Wall Street. A firm with good trading software, pricing software, or back office software can get a strong competitive advantage. Mid six figure salaries are not uncommon for good systems people. (Find jobs like this) A few system architects with skills in particularly high demand, like those that build the big banks’ high frequency trading programs, have been known to make in the low seven figures.

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[al6200]

<p>I don’t think that IB involves any programming, except perhaps some macroing in Excel (which isn’t really programming, to be perfectly honest). The Technology jobs definitely require programming, and I’ve heard that programming can be helpful in trading jobs.</p>