What would be your response if someone asked you how good you are at Excel?

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I can basically do it all. If there’s something I don’t know, I can figure it out with google relatively quickly

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“I excel at it"

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RA1 I use python so I understand why you would have that “despising ” attitude. Coding has a steeper learning curve for sure. But when it comes to last minute harcoding changes in a quarters net income, or producing professional report outputs that you can adjust on a fly and be able to quickly eyeball every number in a pro forma, and then send across to a group of MDs who can only do basic math, Excel is best and most efficient.

At the end of the day it’s about what gets the business done most efficiently vs what is harder to use.

A samurai sword is cool and take years to master, but you don’t need that if you are just cutting someone’s hair.

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Seriously I’ve asked this like 10 times, but what the hell is with banking and pride in using excel? You’re proud of knowing how to use a Microsoft product? Like learn some real programming or some other actual skill. Anyone can use plug and play formulas.

On the other hand, thanks for keeping me employed and my salary high

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RA1 - never said I was proud, just stated I could handle whatever is thrown my way

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With RA1. As sick as excel is, it’s worth about five cents and a cup of coffee in a job that actually requires you to be something more than a pencil pusher

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RA1 you really need to get over this programming superiority complex. I have a background in CS and Finance and while nobody is denying that coding is a useful skill, within the financial services industry excel is just as useful and the program in place in most situations. Also coding is pretty much also "plug and play" of standard algorithms with a few tailor modifications for your specific problem. How is applying Dijkstra or using dynamic programming to solve a problem different from creating company specific financial statements or debt schedules and doing ad-hoc financial analyses?

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Can play my keyboard like a piano

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#Ref

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🎤 - MS

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I hate how good I am

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Having worked in both research and banking, I can say with confidence that bankers are more proficient in excel.

Just answer that you are ‘proficient’. Excel is pretty easy to learn as long as you can type and by the time they figure out you fibbed you might actually be proficient.

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