{"id":158071,"date":"2022-09-21T10:05:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-21T14:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ibkrcampus.com\/?p=158071"},"modified":"2023-02-10T13:17:28","modified_gmt":"2023-02-10T18:17:28","slug":"inside-ibkrs-internship-program-keys-to-a-successful-career-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.interactivebrokers.com\/campus\/podcasts\/ibkr-podcasts\/inside-ibkrs-internship-program-keys-to-a-successful-career-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside IBKR\u2019s Internship Program \u2013 Keys to a Successful Career (Part 1)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>IBKR\u2019s resources are key to maintaining the success of its business, and its internship program is one critical path towards identifying and recruiting the best candidates. Join us for the first installment of this two-part podcast series, as IBKR\u2019s human resources and data management leaders provide their insights into the 2022 summer internship program, its record turnout, the recruitment process, the company\u2019s culture, and much more! This is a must-listen for anyone seeking an internship or applying to work at IBKR.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"\/campus\/traders-insight\/securities\/macro\/inside-ibkrs-internship-program-keys-to-a-successful-career-part-2\/\">Listen to Part 2 here.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe title=\"Inside IBKR\u2019s Internship Program \u2013 Keys to a Successful Career (Part 1)\" allowtransparency=\"true\" height=\"150\" width=\"100%\" style=\"border: none; min-width: min(100%, 430px);\" scrolling=\"no\" data-name=\"pb-iframe-player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.podbean.com\/player-v2\/?i=rhysr-12cbbb9-pb&amp;from=pb6admin&amp;share=1&amp;download=1&amp;rtl=0&amp;fonts=Arial&amp;skin=1b1b1b&amp;font-color=ffffff&amp;logo_link=episode_page&amp;btn-skin=c73a3a\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-summary-ibkr-podcasts-ep-37\">Summary \u2013 IBKR Podcasts Ep. 37<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The following is a summary of a live audio recording and may contain errors in spelling or grammar. Although IBKR has edited for clarity no material changes have been made.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Steven Levine<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Hello, and welcome to IBKR Podcasts.&nbsp; I\u2019m Steven Levine, senior market analyst at Interactive Brokers, and your host for today\u2019s program. We\u2019ll be speaking with members from IBKR\u2019s human resources department: director Michael Kerrigan, and HR generalist Irina Yakovleva \u2013 we\u2019ll also be hearing from our Chief Data Officer Ilya Degter \u2013 about their insights into our company\u2019s summer internship initiative for 2022. But that\u2019s not all \u2013 we also have three interns here with us today \u2013 Danielle Vetere, Mira Lukazik, and Amol Gharpure \u2013 to give us a first-hand account of their experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, we\u2019ll be bringing in those interns in just a few minutes, but first, I want to find out more about this year\u2019s internship program \u2013 because, as I understand it, this is the largest we\u2019ve \u2026 probably ever had \u2026. Is that right, Michael? Let\u2019s start with you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Well, first of all, welcome! It\u2019s great having you here, thank you for taking the time!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Michael Kerrigan<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Thank you, Steve. I really appreciate it. I&#8217;m looking forward to it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Steven Levine<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Absolutely. Very excited to have you here. I actually want to thank everyone here \u2013 Irina, Ilya, thank you so much!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Irina Yakovleva<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Hi, thank you so much for having me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Ilya Degter<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Hey, Steven, good to be with you today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Steven Levine<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>So glad you\u2019re here. Thanks so much for taking the time!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Ilya Degter<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Absolutely, my pleasure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Steven Levine<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>That\u2019s great, thank you!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, Michael, am I right in saying that \u2013 that this is the largest pool of interns we\u2019ve ever had? I don\u2019t know. I mean, how many are in this year\u2019s pool?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Michael Kerrigan<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>They are 39 interns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Steven Levine<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>39. Would you say this is\u2026.? Is that average?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Michael Kerrigan<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>This is by far the largest intern group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Steven Levine<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>And how long has the program been in place? I know we\u2019ve had some interns kind of come in \u2026 maybe they were family members or something, but when was the start of the formal program? When did it officially launch?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Michael Kerrigan<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>So yeah, the internship program started before me. Was it very formalized? No. It was basically individuals had a nephew or had a friend or someone that wanted to come learn at IBKR and wanted to learn about the business, and they brought them in as an intern. And it was really more of temp help than internship. Now, in 2018, we formalized an internship. We came up with a recruiting process. We came up with a selection process. We came up with the number of recruits we want. We looked specifically mostly at programmers, but we did expand it to non-programmers. And we brought them in really just because we had the senior leadership, we had managers, we had employees who\u2019ve been here for a long time, and we were looking for a younger talent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Steven Levine<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>And the number of interns interested in joining our program has increased over the years to where it Is now, or\u2026?And have we had much success hiring from the pools we\u2019ve had, or how has that worked exactly?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Michael Kerrigan<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Well, you know, obviously Covid kind of dramatically reduced the last two years. The first year I think we had about 27. So, since 2018 \u2026 since we had the official program \u2026 we&#8217;ve probably had close to, and I&#8217;m only speaking to the U.S., probably close to 90 interns, and we&#8217;ve probably hired 10. &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Steven Levine<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Ok.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Michael Kerrigan<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Yeah. So, those were interns that graduated the year after they started our intern[ship program]. So, they were more of like juniors \u2026 seniors \u2026 and ready to leave and go into the workforce. We do have interns now that are going from their freshman year into their sophomore year, so, we may like them, but obviously they have three years before they finish and get their degree. We may not look at them again. I guess you&#8217;re looking at probably around 10% of the people that go through our internship program that we\u2019re hiring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Steven Levine<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>And how would you compare the size of our program with others in the financial services industry? &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Michael Kerrigan<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>I would say it&#8217;s probably about average in the industry. &nbsp;I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s too high. I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s too low either. I think it&#8217;s probably the norm. You do have intern programs that probably have [a] successful [hiring rate of] 50%, but they&#8217;ve been well established. They&#8217;ve had restrictions where they only have interns that are going into their senior year. So, they know they only have to wait six, seven, eight months before they&#8217;re out, and they get job offers straight away. So, they tend to have a higher percentage of hiring groups, but since we don&#8217;t narrow it down to that age group, we probably have a lower internship percentage.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Steven Levine<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>I see. I see. So, when we talk about Interactive Brokers being in the financial services industry. Yes, we operate in that space \u2026 and Michael, you mentioned that we were looking more specifically at programmers, because the company really is first and foremost a technology company that operates in the financial sector. &nbsp;If you look at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.interactivebrokers.com\/en\/general\/about\/about.php\">history of the firm<\/a>, it\u2019s clear that its success was built on technological innovations \u2013 which we\u2019re continuing that to this day, and for that, I\u2019d like to get Ilya\u2019s insights \u2013 our Chief Data Officer \u2013 and then, I\u2019d like to address with Irina \u2013 those \u201cnon-programmers\u201d that Michael also said we expanded the internship program to. And I understand she has an intern, Danielle, who we\u2019ll be speaking with a bit later, in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coursera.org\/specializations\/esg-investing-financial-decision-in-flux\">ESG space<\/a> \u2013 that\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/tradersacademy.online\/trading-courses\/fundamentals\/esg-investing\">environmental, social, and governance<\/a>, and we have a lot of focus there with our <a href=\"https:\/\/impact.interactivebrokers.com\/en\/home.php\">Impact app<\/a>, for example \u2013 it\u2019s another <a href=\"https:\/\/tradersacademy.online\/trading-lesson\/ibkrs-impact-app\">example of innovation<\/a> at the company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But, Ilya \u2026 well, first, since I mentioned the history of the company, I know you\u2019ve been here for some time \u2026 maybe we can start a bit with your background \u2013 maybe you can share something about your role\u2026. Exactly how long have you been with Interactive Brokers?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Ilya Degter<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Absolutely. So, I&#8217;m a software engineer by trade, as are many of the employees at Interactive Brokers. And we\u2019re going to talk about it a little bit more. I&#8217;ve started with interactive in 1998, so I&#8217;m closing-in on my 25th anniversary with the company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Steven Levine<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Well, congratulations! 1998. Wow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Ilya Degter<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>That&#8217;s right, it&#8217;s been. It&#8217;s been a long time. It&#8217;s been really a dream come true. I mean, honestly, I don&#8217;t believe that I&#8217;ve been here for 25 years \u2013 and part of it is that the job is interesting. It&#8217;s challenging. The company doesn&#8217;t stand still, and we&#8217;re really constantly pursuing something else on the technology front, and that&#8217;s really the most interesting part for me. In terms of my work as a data officer, at some point, the organization as an enterprise has to get into a certain position in terms of managing its data, controlling access to data \u2026 and so there are a lot of these components that are outside of the software development, if you will, but has to do with the overall enterprise data management.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Steven Levine<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>But 25 years. I mean, that\u2019s really great. Would you say that\u2019s something of an anomaly here? Or\u2026what would you say, it\u2019s average, or, from your experience, is it sort of\u2026normal\u2026tenure? What would you say, do we have high turnover, low turnover\u2026.?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Ilya Degter<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Well, you&#8217;d be surprised to learn that a lot of employees that I know that work around me in my office or different offices \u2013 they&#8217;ve been here for 10, 15, 20 years. In my group alone, I easily have probably 15 people who&#8217;ve been with the department for at least 10 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Steven Levine<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>For at least 10 years?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Ilya Degter<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Yes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Steven Levine<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Well, that\u2019s something I\u2019m sure that\u2019s attractive for those interns in terms of their interest in maybe joining the company. But why would you say people stay? And that\u2019s a fairly long tenure, right, 10, 15, 20 years?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Ilya Degter<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>So, the turnover is generally very low, and I think part of the reason for this is the fact that people feel really engaged, and they see the results of their work, and I think that sort of satisfaction of what you do each day, every day, pays off.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Steven Levine<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>So, I brought up interactive Brokers as being a company that really is a technology company \u2013 operating in \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.interactivebrokers.com\/en\/whyib\/overview.php\">providing and creating products and services<\/a> \u2013 for trading and investing purposes \u2013 in the financial services sector. And, yes, this is the reason \u2026 I would like to say the primary reason why, as Michael said earlier \u2026 we were mostly specifically looking at programmers as interns before opening it up, more recently\u2026. But, Ilya, in your view, what has been behind the company\u2019s success \u2013 what is really behind IBKR\u2019s ongoing competitiveness in the broker industry? How would you say it <em>maintains<\/em> its success these days?&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Ilya Degter<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Well, it&#8217;s a great question, Steven. I think it goes back to the roots of the company. As our founder, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Thomas_Peterffy\">Thomas Peterffy<\/a>, likes to say: We&#8217;re a technology company that happens to be in finance. So, what does that mean? That means that we look at every problem and every opportunity as a software development project. So, we look at this and say: Can we write software to automate this particular function? And why is this important? It&#8217;s important because computers don&#8217;t get tired. And we can do a lot of interesting things, and we can service many, many clients if we can write the software to support this idea. And this is what the company has been doing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The history of the company is such that, from the very beginning, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/13542772-automate-this\">implementing trading algorithms<\/a> was really how the company got started. And so, then, we took it really to the next level. In other words, it&#8217;s not just the trading algorithms, it&#8217;s everything that the company does \u2013 from the client onboarding to customer service to back office reconciliation. All of these functions are supported by the software that we produce, because that&#8217;s the only way to minimize the costs. And that kind of then goes to the next step in our evolution. We can offer our services at a lower cost because of our highest levels of automation. So. that&#8217;s really the differentiating factor here in my view.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Steven Levine<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>I see. So, our automation is far superior, or superior, to competitors in the way that we can make all sorts of transactions, or all sorts of processes, automated, and make them faster, and hence lower the costs? is that\u2026? Am I putting that right?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Ilya Degter<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Yeah, that&#8217;s exactly right. It&#8217;s not just making things faster, it\u2019s also accommodating the growth of the business, right? Because it&#8217;s easier to write the software and buy more computers than hire more people. And, also, over the years, obviously, we&#8217;ve produced a lot of software that supports certain standard functionality. So, for example, we know how to connect to an exchange and place orders, and now that we\u2019ve connected to 130 markets worldwide, we can connect to another marketplace very quickly in a matter of days or weeks. It doesn&#8217;t take us a month or several months to develop something because we already have these building blocks. But, in general, the automation is what drives the efficiency of our business. We want to maintain that edge by constantly looking into what are the parts of the business that still require manual handling and make sure that we can fully automate those avenues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Steven Levine<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Yes, yes. And interns \u2013 if we take a closer look at what the interns involved in software engineering, say, are doing\u2026. It\u2019s not just sort of \u2018temp help\u2019 \u2013 I think Michael said something to that effect earlier.\u2026 We\u2019re not offering an internship that\u2019s like \u2018temp help\u2019. These interns now are really getting their hands on projects, right? We have an intern \u2026 we\u2019re also going to talk to a bit later \u2013 Amol \u2013 he\u2019s interning in this space \u2026 the software engineering area here. We\u2019ll hear from him, but how would you describe, or maybe pitch, what it might be like to intern in your department? How would you sell that?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Ilya Degter<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>I would compare it to buying a car online, or test-driving the car, right? When the interns get in, they\u2019re really driving the car, right? They know exactly how it feels, how the car behaves on the road. So, they see this from the inside. And one thing that I didn&#8217;t mention, but you know of course, some percentage of these interns, when they graduate, they come back, and they become new hires.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Steven Levine<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Yes, I&#8217;d like to explore that more. I think Michael said about 10% get hired, on average. So, what, In your view, what characteristics or traits would you look for in someone? For hiring consideration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Ilya Degter<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Well, I think that. Being a hard worker \u2013 not even a quick learner, because there are certain things that you can&#8217;t learn quickly \u2013 but somebody who is willing to learn and willing to work hard. Those are probably the two main kind of ingredients of an Interactive Brokers\u2019 employee, right? It may be an interesting thing that you don&#8217;t know \u2013 that unlike a lot of financial firms, we have never really specifically concentrated on hiring people with a financial background, right? Because we kind of had this vision that somebody who is smart, somebody who is willing to work hard, and who is willing to learn, is going to learn what they need to learn. We don&#8217;t need somebody \u2026 of course, if they have a financial background, great. It&#8217;s a plus. But we never had this requirement, because otherwise, how does somebody who has never worked for a financial company start out? If every financial company requires the previous background, right?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Steven Levine<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Yes, yes, all your personal finances. You have a certain budget, I suppose, or maybe your parents\u2019 budget at a certain age, but you have some money to work with, and I suppose that&#8217;s all your experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Ilya Degter<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>That&#8217;s correct, because once you get in here, and especially in the IT [information technology], and specifically software development and software engineering \u2026 in order to make the software as smart as the humans are, to a certain extent, and to achieve the automation, the engineers, who are in charge of designing and developing that software \u2026 they have to have a very deep understanding of the market intricacies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Steven Levine<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>All the inputs that go into those algorithms\u2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Ilya Degter<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>That&#8217;s correct. And, so, I would argue that a lot of engineers that have been here for 10, 15, 20 years, they probably understand the markets better than some of the quote-unquote \u2018financial professionals,\u2019 because they really know this inside and out. No disrespect, obviously, intended here, but because we really work with the data and the inputs, as you pointed out, and we have to understand, and have a perfect understanding, of how each specific exchange or market or any other, you know \u2026 clearinghouse \u2026 operates in order to write software that can communicate with it.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Steven Levine<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Yes, it really is fascinating to see it from that perspective.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, now, let\u2019s turn back to HR \u2026 and our generalist Irina Yakovleva. Thank you for being so patient, Irina, and we\u2019re excited to have you with us!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Irina Yakovleva<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Yeah, I&#8217;m very excited to be here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Steven Levine<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Great having you here. Great having you here. So, Irina, our resources here at Interactive Brokers are critical, right? You could say that they really drive the success here \u2013 much in the way Ilya was describing how interns are sort of behind the wheel of a car, right? They\u2019re driving \u2026 or they\u2019re in the driver\u2019s seat. But this really applies whether the intern, or employee, is in programming or some other area \u2013 we have another intern we\u2019ll be talking to shortly, Mira \u2026 Mira Lukazik \u2026 she does her internship in the legal area. But this all goes to IBKR\u2019s culture, right? I mean, this summer internship program really introduces interns to the culture here at IBKR. And I understand you\u2019re mentoring or supervising an intern in the ESG area? I guess cross-over responsibilities with HR? How does that work?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Irina Yakovleva<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>So, the intern that I&#8217;m working with \u2026 she&#8217;s a hybrid intern between ESG and human resources, and the reason for that is because we really have a lot of common goals and initiatives. So, more specific, one of the goals that she&#8217;s working on is our gender equality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Steven Levine<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Okay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Irina Yakovleva<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>So that is an important factor of the \u2019S\u2019 in ESG.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Steven Levine<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The social part of it\u2026?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Irina Yakovleva<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Yes. Correct. And it also, of course, it impacts the human resources department as well. So, we are always looking to make sure that we&#8217;re providing the needed support for women and allies to develop themselves to succeed \u2026 to excel in our company. 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