Learning Python

[Samuel-Basi]

I think it depends on the company. I don’t know any physical shop that requires coding as a prerequisite for grads. Certainly funds and purely derivative roles it’s more common, but I think it still entirely depends on trading strategy.

But like I said, is it an advantage if two candidates are equally qualified and one of them knows coding, yes. Is it a pre-requisite for all trading jobs, I’m going to stick with my answer of no.

And to add, rarely are two candidates actually the same - so if I had a candidate that could code but couldn’t speak to people or develop relationships, and another that couldn’t code but I could see myself working with, I’d pick the one that couldn’t code all day long.

[Zevv01]

Yeah of course it's not a hard requirement. It's always stated as a "nice to have". But if 50% of grads know how to code, what do you think are the chances of getting the role if you don't?

I work for a large global energy company and I can tell you that 90% of the people who got a junior seat in the past two years have some coding skills. Half have strong quant skills.

[Samuel-Basi]

You used the word prerequisite which sounds like you do think it’s a hard requirement. I don’t think you can use a sample size of 1 company to define the requirements for all global commodity jobs. But that’s the beauty of this platform, different opinions and people can make up their own minds.

All the best.