I know of a few major trading firms that use MATLAB for a lot of their analysis. In many companies that hire engineers they also often use MATLAB as it's suffic

I know of a few major trading firms that use MATLAB for a lot of their analysis. In many companies that hire engineers they also often use MATLAB as it's sufficient for what they need those engineers to do (and programmers at those companies use different languages), and many engineers come out of their degree feeling most comfortable with MATLAB for scientific computation.