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They are. The largest bank here in Sweden for example offers a 6 month free COBOL Academy to newly graduated students, that ends in basically a guaranteed job.
by dagw 5y ago
They are. The largest bank here in Sweden for example offers a 6 month free COBOL Academy to newly graduated students, that ends in basically a guaranteed job.
I guess there just aren't enough takers.
- markus_zhang 5y agoThat's very good. I never saw these in Montreal. Maybe because I'm not a new graduate.
- foobaby 5y agoThat would be difficult to pull off in the US because full-time COBOL gigs just don't pay as much as modern software engineering jobs do. A lot of these big companies with legacy COBOL systems got way too comfy with offshore contractors and now big contracting firms aren't guaranteeing theirlabor pools like they used to because they can make a lot more money placing contractors in Java/Python/AWS/etc roles instead of COBOL. Training programs like this would have to pay incredibly well to keep people (which is not a bad thing for the workforce generally), but it's clear that some of these companies are used to paying far lower salaries and now they're running out of options while maintaining critical IT infrastructure in some cases.