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my first software dev job. Debugging a 50k LOC COBOL beast We found the real MVP. tapland, what were you thinking when taking this job!?
by vonseel 8y ago
my first software dev job. Debugging a 50k LOC COBOL beast
We found the real MVP. tapland, what were you thinking when taking this job!?
- tapland 8y agoHeard about COBOL for ages, always been into retro computing and setting up z/OS on the Hercules emulator at home I was offered COBOL-training from a company and two years of guaranteed employment (with pay even if they decide I'm not needed) to join a team that force-retired 40% of their developers this year. I have no real previous development experience, only some Java and Python, since I chose an industrial engineering program at uni, and I got the offer the semester before my CS-classes (my chosen specialization) started. Changed my university classes to equivalent distance-classes and took six months of school to get into training and a job.