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There is a store chain nearby hiring for an IBM mainframe dev. It's unlikely anyone but a career mainframe dev will ever pass, and they're not taking on anyone

There is a store chain nearby hiring for an IBM mainframe dev. It's unlikely anyone but a career mainframe dev will ever pass, and they're not taking on anyone new. Industry starts with the customers and the customers are trying to squeeze out costs as much as possible, shooting themselves in the foot. Fun fact IBM pushes their hiring through a terrible 3rd party system that barely functions and doesn't even include options for common related degrees. IBM is incompetent and only exist because of wealthy corporatations paying politicians to have long intellectual property lifetimes. I emailed their hiring service about it once and their response was essentially "take it up with someone else."

mrjin 3y ago
^ IBM is incompetent and only exist because of wealthy corporatations paying politicians to have long intellectual property lifetimes. Not quite the case. Current mainframe users haven't migrated from it largely because the simplicity of scaling up, which means they can always buy a newer and more powerful machine when current one can no longer cope with the workload. I would expect it's much cheaper than migrate to other platforms in most if not all cases, considering the costs to develop and test the applications. They can get away with it as long as they can find someone to carry out the upgrade/maintenance work. But if IBM keeps footgunnig itself, it won't belong before those users have to jump the ship as no one can work on it any more.