> I thought Octave will be a valuable skill when I enter the industry but I could not have been more wrong. If your skill with Octave makes you more effective

> I thought Octave will be a valuable skill when I enter the industry but I could not have been more wrong. If your skill with Octave makes you more effective in a role, then it's still valuable even if your employer doesn't specifically require experience with it. I started using Octave after a coworker showed me how he used Matlab as a DSP prototype workbench. At the time I couldn't justify asking the boss for my own Matlab subscription, so I applied what I learned using Octave instead. At this point in my career, Matlab is available to me but Octave does what I need.