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Originally Posted by C3HIEF3S
My company is on this route as well, but only at our corporate HQ.
Excel is a must-know tool in the business world, but so often misused and isn’t practical for doing things such as in-depth data analysis.. When I was in school, I had professors in some data science courses I took dock students points for using Excel for anything (as simple as string-parsing on a column) on assignments.
“Excel is a glorified text-editor”, a phrase I recall being said to us after such an instance happened.
If you ever want to know if someone is bullshitting on their resume, test them on those Excel skills they always list that they have. I’d bet the majority of people wouldn’t even know what a VLOOKUP is.
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Sounds like my company, there’s departments where Excel use isn’t allowed. I could see listing Excel on a resume potentially hurting as those habits are hard to let go by long term users when introduced to new tools. Myself included.