Excel and business and computer science gets weird. I’ve seen companies spending half a million to build a report that excel and a pivot table could do in an a

Excel and business and computer science gets weird. I’ve seen companies spending half a million to build a report that excel and a pivot table could do in an a day. Few weeks ago company was looking at scaling up to max possible EC2 nodes in order to get something to work. I spent a couple hours tweaking the algorithm and now it’s on a micro node running 20x faster. Some data problems are truly hard and interesting and world changing. Excel covers almost everything else.