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Hey @Chris7906‌ – @zee and @bostonCFA2014‌ are right. CFA is great in that it brings everyone on the same page, CFA level 1 is very do-able even to beginners with no finance background (or if you’ve forgotten most stuff like most of us do). I wouldn’t worry about it at all – it may be easier for candidates with relevant finance background for Level 1, but we will all find Level 2 and 3 challenging anyway.
@vincentt can share his experience here for sure. He’s a software engineering/IT background and has done extremely well so far learning finance from scratch through CFA, passing the exams (L1 and L2) consecutively, using this forum extensively to ask/discuss questions. He’s a recent L3 candidate and is waiting for results.