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Can you give me some examples of repetitive (or very boring) kinds of programming work that's commonly demanded?

(This isn't a skeptic take, I've been really pondering whether coding is for me, since taking the next step in my current career path requires an upgrade in "soft skills" that... )




In banks, a lot of the important operations are on entrenched/Legacy systems (eg mainframes) or vendor/cots solutions.

Therefore for some developers in a bank, a lot of work tends to focus on shovelling data around the bank in a myriad of formats to interact with these systems, or get data in and out of databases.




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