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How hard is it, really, to learn? Big Tech is constantly hiring people to work in technologies they don't know yet. We were all in on Go before anybody off the
by closeparen 6y ago
How hard is it, really, to learn? Big Tech is constantly hiring people to work in technologies they don't know yet. We were all in on Go before anybody off the street knew it. Facebook has its own language. I'm sure businesses would prefer instant productivity, but is the training expense really bigger than the migration expense?
- brendoelfrendo 6y agoYeah, but... can you hire for it? Plenty of forward-looking developers are willing to learn Go, or whatever new hotness the SV scene is cooking up. I think pitching mainframe development to that same crowd is a much harder proposition.
- lotsofpulp 6y agoA more expensive proposition. Dangle some high six figure salaries and it will also be the new hotness.
- denimnerd42 6y agonah, I think both ideas are wrong. that crowd would never want to work for a bank or insurance company in the first place unless desperate. due to their org structure they can never get any real value out of any 1 person, especially an engineer. so that salary will never exist in the first place.
- notsureaboutpg 6y agoThis is absolutely untrue. All of my colleagues and friends put up with corporate SV crap the same way they'd put up with bank / insurance company crap only for the pay. If a bank were paying SV salaries to do COBOL programming on a mainframe, I'd jump for it, honestly.
- guenthert 6y agoMight not be the same crowd, but some of us wouldn't mind to learn COBOL and get our hands on a mainframe (while at the same time wondering whether the world really needed Go).
- tartoran 6y agoThe question isn’t how hard it is to learn but who is willing to embrace an old technology which for now it doesn’t even make financial sense. When $300/hour becomes the norm you’ll have plenty of resources. For now COBOL jobs aren’t very attractive