> Technical skills and everything else are complementary but not mandatory (except geniuses - maybe in 0.1% of the cases).
Depends on the environment.
On the one extreme, there are the consulting companies, they just buy whatever human meat shows up and sell it back at $1000 day. Who cares about technical skills, they'd sell ANYTHING, they're insanely good at that.
One the other extreme, there are the hardcore tech companies, where skills matter. A new HFT company just recruited a guy with previous experience in finance that seemed promising and let him handle the trading strategy, well that was fun seeing them loose $10M on the first day :D
Depends on the environment.
On the one extreme, there are the consulting companies, they just buy whatever human meat shows up and sell it back at $1000 day. Who cares about technical skills, they'd sell ANYTHING, they're insanely good at that.
One the other extreme, there are the hardcore tech companies, where skills matter. A new HFT company just recruited a guy with previous experience in finance that seemed promising and let him handle the trading strategy, well that was fun seeing them loose $10M on the first day :D