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rhymes • Edited

Probably the more the better, how much depends a lot on the company and the products or services they offer and your role. As a general rule, especially if you want to climb the career ladder inside the company you should know as much as possible.

Sometimes you can probably get by with just the domain language and a few details, sometimes you might need to know ins and outs of the market. The latter never happened to me though.

I used to work for a financial company and I had to pick up stuff about trading, financial instruments, how the stock exchange works, important days, bonds and so on. I don't remember most of it anymore 🤣🤣🤣