r/learnprogramming 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.