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Interesting, the two quants beside me and myself, all have excel open right now.

I guess our fund isn't "hardcore":)

Haha - when I was a quant I used it all the time too. We had Perl jobs that would generate Excel reports that would then be distributed to the various PMs so that they could look into the details.

I think the finance industry runs on Excel.

Any industry runs on Excel I guess.

I work in aeronautics and everyone who works on a computer maintains some Excel spreadsheets. It's everywhere but so few people know how to use formula, pivot tables, etc, that it has become a real competitive advantage to master them.

If they don't have vim or emacs open, they're not hardcore.

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