I'm not sure how much putting matlab in your CV can benefit you in your job hunting, but as a frequent user of it, I can tell you it is quite a useful skill to have if your day to day job is to develop new models, new algorithms, prototyping stuff.
Matlab is rich in build-in functions and toolbox that cover a lot of fields from engineering to finance to physics to biomedical even. It's not meant for efficiency, but it has great flexibity in building and testing new system. You can run your code line by line, and there're a lot of tools to help debugging and viewing intermediate results, or manipulate them, which is not so easy to do in
C++ (I may be wrong as I'm not an adept
C++ programmer, still trying to catch up). It also have great connectivity to other language like C/
C++. In fact in my team, we always start with matlab to build new systems, then gradually recode tested modules into C/
C++ for speed and replace the matlab counterpart while keep debugging/testing the rest modules. Another good part about matlab is the rich plotting function that helps one visualize results and prepare presentation slides (the other good choice is excel for that matter).
However, you should note that matlab is after all, just a scripting system. It is not meant to replace any formal programming language like
C++, Java, although functional wise it can do almost everything that C/
C++ can do even things like GUI, networking, parallel (it has CUDA library support last I check). It is not optimized in terms of efficiency. It costs a lot to buy matlab license and toolboxes costs extra. But depending on the nature of your job, it can be a very handy tool.
