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There are definitely new devs learning COBOL. I'm not sure where I saw it, but I could have sworn I saw an article or blog post about these mission critical com
by yurishimo 5y ago
There are definitely new devs learning COBOL. I'm not sure where I saw it, but I could have sworn I saw an article or blog post about these mission critical companies paying insane wages and signing bonuses to devs who would sign-on to learn & maintain their infrastructure. And since these jobs would likely be on prem for security reasons, they don't have to pay insane Silicon Valley wages either.
Imagine living in Cincinnati making $250k maintaining COBOL? Some people are totally fine with that paradigm and will keep the system running as long as it needs to.
- mech422 5y agoI was down until the on-prem thing.. Still, I wouldn't be surprised about insane wages for COBOL. You make money at the bleeding edge of tech, or way back on the tail end - scarcity breeds profit :-)
- spaetzleesser 5y agoi think most of the highly paid COBOL devs are a myth. I looked into this a while ago and after talking to some people I got the impression that these jobs don't pay well at all. This may be the reason why nobody wants to do it. I bet otherwise they would have no problem finding plenty of people who are OK with making 250k in Cincinnati.