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intended on Sept 8, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: You Suck at Excel with Joel Spolsky (2015) [video]

Excel is hugely common. More "code" (simple logic or transformation) is probably done in excel than anything else.

I'd be surprised to find a normal (non tech, non SV) firm which didn't work on excel.

bigger_cheese on Sept 8, 2016 [–]

I work at an industrial plant. Excel is used a lot here too. But not for technical analytic work. Nothing you'd need to pass an exam to know how to do.

The Analysts here tend to use programs like Cognos, SAP Business Objects etc.

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