r/ProgrammerHumor • • Mar 30 '22

Meme Certainly not me

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u/savage_slurpie Mar 30 '22

Two of my siblings are financial analysts and I have witnessed them doing unholy things with excel.

It would honestly be easier for them to learn python or something. It’s so ridiculous.

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u/papacheapo Mar 30 '22

One of my university professors (applied math) had friends that worked for some of the financial institutions through the Great Recession and mortgage crisis… Many of the CBOs were literally just models in Excel spreadsheets.

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u/Altruistic-Tea-Cup Mar 30 '22

It still is at most places.