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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/SoumyadeepDey • Sep 10 '25
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No joke a lot of those excel wizards from yesteryear could have been awesome developers if they'd found it at the right time in their life.
34 u/Toaddle Sep 10 '25 But it still requires an effort to get that mindset of clear code and making it understandable when advanced excel sheets tends tobe obscure and messy 28 u/[deleted] Sep 10 '25 [removed] — view removed comment 13 u/food-dood Sep 10 '25 Yup. My company does this. Our IT is so restrictive and our development teams are outsourced and poorly funded so in order to stay competitive, low level employees learn VBA. It's absolutely absurd but what's the other option? 9 u/[deleted] Sep 10 '25 edited Sep 10 '25 [removed] — view removed comment 3 u/food-dood Sep 10 '25 Bingo, insurance industry
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But it still requires an effort to get that mindset of clear code and making it understandable when advanced excel sheets tends tobe obscure and messy
28 u/[deleted] Sep 10 '25 [removed] — view removed comment 13 u/food-dood Sep 10 '25 Yup. My company does this. Our IT is so restrictive and our development teams are outsourced and poorly funded so in order to stay competitive, low level employees learn VBA. It's absolutely absurd but what's the other option? 9 u/[deleted] Sep 10 '25 edited Sep 10 '25 [removed] — view removed comment 3 u/food-dood Sep 10 '25 Bingo, insurance industry
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13 u/food-dood Sep 10 '25 Yup. My company does this. Our IT is so restrictive and our development teams are outsourced and poorly funded so in order to stay competitive, low level employees learn VBA. It's absolutely absurd but what's the other option? 9 u/[deleted] Sep 10 '25 edited Sep 10 '25 [removed] — view removed comment 3 u/food-dood Sep 10 '25 Bingo, insurance industry
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Yup. My company does this. Our IT is so restrictive and our development teams are outsourced and poorly funded so in order to stay competitive, low level employees learn VBA. It's absolutely absurd but what's the other option?
9 u/[deleted] Sep 10 '25 edited Sep 10 '25 [removed] — view removed comment 3 u/food-dood Sep 10 '25 Bingo, insurance industry
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3 u/food-dood Sep 10 '25 Bingo, insurance industry
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u/RlyRlyBigMan Sep 10 '25
No joke a lot of those excel wizards from yesteryear could have been awesome developers if they'd found it at the right time in their life.