Sure I'll go ahead and learn what I need to to keep your stack afloat. What's that? You don't want to pay me a reasonable wage? Well then! I guess we have a problem indeed. Scramble on, fine HR folks at "Major Banks and Parts of Federal Gov't"!
But if you want to take smart people away from their shiny modern languages and dev stacks, and ask them to put up with bureaucracy, then you need to pay them at least commensurate salaries to what they'd get elsewhere (if not MORE).
These are really stories about banks not wanting to pay talented devs to put up with their BS.
Simply knowing COBOL isn't the deciding factor. Could I stomach being employed in the banking industry and facilitating the awful shit they pull? No. So whether I know COBOL or not is irrelevant.
oh, not again... they do not want COBOL programmers, they want programmers who know CICS transactions and DB2, VSAM, etc, who have enough experience to come in and fix production business logic... I see this article every year or two and it's... let's all say it together... NOT COBOL PROGRAMMERS ANYONE WANTS... if you know COBOL but don't know CICS, you will not get a job... and, hey, there is a huge glut of out of work CICS experts to pick from.
Sure I'll go ahead and learn what I need to to keep your stack afloat.
What's that? You don't want to pay me a reasonable wage? Well then! I guess we have a problem indeed. Scramble on, fine HR folks at "Major Banks and Parts of Federal Gov't"!
Exactly this.
COBOL isn't hard. Whatever, it's a language.
But if you want to take smart people away from their shiny modern languages and dev stacks, and ask them to put up with bureaucracy, then you need to pay them at least commensurate salaries to what they'd get elsewhere (if not MORE).
These are really stories about banks not wanting to pay talented devs to put up with their BS.
So, if you are in the U.S. and you know Cobol already, you might get a few years of employment out of it. However, such jobs will go overseas, too.
Simply knowing COBOL isn't the deciding factor. Could I stomach being employed in the banking industry and facilitating the awful shit they pull? No. So whether I know COBOL or not is irrelevant.
oh, not again ... they do not want COBOL programmers, they want programmers who know CICS transactions and DB2, VSAM, etc, who have enough experience to come in and fix production business logic ... I see this article every year or two and it's ... let's all say it together ... NOT COBOL PROGRAMMERS ANYONE WANTS ... if you know COBOL but don't know CICS, you will not get a job... and, hey, there is a huge glut of out of work CICS experts to pick from.