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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SteveTownsend" data-source="post: 8843" data-attributes="member: 145">Bear in mind that my own background is in IT - even though it's pretty close to the Fixed Income Derivatives business, I am not programming models. The closest I get is as a user of Credit Suisse's internal quant models (from the GMAG team). So of course, C++ (and C#) is my bias.  People actually working as quants or quant devs will have far better info on how much C++ is actually used in those areas. Although there are only two "pure" C++ courses in the MFE curriculum (MTH9815, MTH 9871), my impression is that programming features heavily in some if not all of the other courses. This is not a theoretically-oriented program.  otoh if you want a job at Google, do the CIS. If you do CIS instead of MFE as a Masters, you will be competing against people who have done very 12-18 months of specialized programming, targeting the area you want to get into. How do you think your chances are compared to theirs?</blockquote>