IME running IT and data reporting for a social service nonprofit, students/grads of local (SF Bay) CS/data programs who apply seem exposed mostly/only to shiny new tools not developed by Microsoft. IRL you still will have to kludge together unholy amalgams of (non-tidy) CSVs, Excel and Google sheets, schema-less SQL dumps from someone else's RDBMS of unknown dialect, JSON and XML files, Word doc tables that are someone's clever "data management system", and more Access, DBF and FoxPro files than you might imagine. It's 10x more PITA working in healthcare where if the product or cloud service won't sign a HIPAA Business Associate Agreement there's no point looking at it.
I've had UCB/Cal State students say things like "Why would I ever need to interact Excel when there's X?" - uh if your boss or execs use it! I recall the "Hadoop big data expert" who couldn't figure out how to do a VLOOKUP during an open-browser interview, or folks ready to graduate from a data bootcamp who couldn't give even one example of how they could distinguish between plausible and accurate data. Also if any local programs teach students about the ascendancy/utility of PowerShell for anything IT/cloud/admin/DevOps-related it's not trickled down to recent applicants.
I've had UCB/Cal State students say things like "Why would I ever need to interact Excel when there's X?" - uh if your boss or execs use it! I recall the "Hadoop big data expert" who couldn't figure out how to do a VLOOKUP during an open-browser interview, or folks ready to graduate from a data bootcamp who couldn't give even one example of how they could distinguish between plausible and accurate data. Also if any local programs teach students about the ascendancy/utility of PowerShell for anything IT/cloud/admin/DevOps-related it's not trickled down to recent applicants.