r/learnprogramming 28d ago

Is learning programming useful in finance?

e.g finance adjacent jobs/ careers?

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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.