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Let's not forget a Western stereotype from 10 years ago: the deprecated specialist. Since the 80s, IBM has had a lot of bloat from poorly managed technologists
by schnevets 9y ago
Let's not forget a Western stereotype from 10 years ago: the deprecated specialist. Since the 80s, IBM has had a lot of bloat from poorly managed technologists who owned "the JDBC-based plugin for integrating AIX-based Lotus Notes servers with a COBOL-based mainframe that is only used by JP Morgan and the state government of Ohio".
Despite the risk, it's easier to toss these responsibilities to a junior-level developer overseas than to maintain a 20-year veteran in the New York office.
- snambi 9y agoMost junior developers will not even know that getting into a dead end job such as these are the end of their career. Sad!
- kd0amg 9y agoOn the other hand, they've probably had a lot more early exposure to the idea that one is better off changing jobs every few years. After having three jobs in ten years instead of one, they're much less likely to be stuck with a non-transferable skillset.
- snambi 9y agoSo, you are saying that maintaining, some shit code written in the 70s and maintained by 10s of enterprise programmers, will result in better experience?