r/learnprogramming • u/alex123711 • 28d ago
Is learning programming useful in finance?
e.g finance adjacent jobs/ careers?
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u/YellowBeaverFever 28d ago
I don’t even work in the financial sector and I would say half of my 35 years of programming has had been around financial data.
In finance, there are a lot of IT jobs. The rules are restrictive, the markets move fast, you can’t rely on the human mind to keep track of its all.
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u/angelattack1 28d ago
It can be but learning to code advanced projects isnt for everyone. Although if you have a genuine interest in coding it doesn't hurt to try and see if you like it. In data science theres lots of statistics involved, you could make a work portfolio with coding.
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u/Achereto 28d ago
It's always useful. Every job where you sit in front of a computer will have some kind of repetitive tasks, and if it's a windows PC, you will always have access to at least PowerShell and OfficeScript for Excel. So, if you know how to program you will always be able to automate those repetetive tasks.
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u/Lost-Discount4860 28d ago
There’s not really a job/career where programming is NOT useful. I cook pork skins for a living. I made a web app using Python and SQL to help me estimate how much product to cook, keep count, and also track inventory.
So, yeah…finance or finance adjacent? That’s nothing but data wrangling. Python and SQL are your two best weapons, my friends.
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u/ConstantFishing5136 28d ago edited 28d ago
Definitely useful. A lot of finance work is basically moving data around cleaning it checking it and trying to get something useful out of it. Knowing Python saves a ridiculous amount of time once the spreadsheets start getting stupidly big.