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by parennoob 3336 days ago
This. While I have come around to the concept of "It's probably better if more people learn to code", I rarely see other parts of the company so eager to share their knowledge.

In particular, I'd like more training on law and finance. For some reason, I have never seen any lawyers or accountants being eager to teach me about interpreting laws, or balancing books.

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I'm not so sure every engineer needs to know that. I think the important thing is for everyone to have some understanding of the core business.

If you're Stripe, that's coding, APIs, and finance/payments (that last is the bit engineers should be taught).

If you're Google, that's ads and ad-buying - hence the company practice of giving engineers (and maybe other employees?) some free ad credits so they can see what the customer perspective looks like.