I think this is a flippant comment. You can do just about anything in Excel, so being good at it to me feels akin to winning a programming olypmiad -- abstract,

I think this is a flippant comment. You can do just about anything in Excel, so being good at it to me feels akin to winning a programming olypmiad -- abstract, sure, but still indicative of strong, transferrable skills. To me, to dismiss that is to reflect your own close mindedness and intellectual laziness rather than anything about the comeptition.