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Yeah, 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 pitc
by brendoelfrendo 6y ago
Yeah, 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).