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COBOL engineers are about the lowest on the pay grade and steadily deliver (when they are involved). Peanuts compared to any fancy consultant invited to draw cl
by soco 2y ago
COBOL engineers are about the lowest on the pay grade and steadily deliver (when they are involved). Peanuts compared to any fancy consultant invited to draw cloud architectures with unrealistic expectations or timeframes. So this workforce cost argument does not hold water. However, licenses are very expensive indeed, which is why there are migration pathways for COBOL-on-other-platforms. But a migration is much less sexy than a rewrite (AI supported) so there.
- arghwhat 2y agoThe general consensus around here has always been that you can get paid whatever you want if you're willing to code COBOL by being a specialist consultant. This holds true for any legacy system, whether it's a factory control system, a legacy programming language, an ancient piece of hardware or whatever. That workforce is a small retiree club at this point, with financial institutions panicking and trying to promote COBOL and push it into computer science programs. "Steadily deliver" is not a quality you can blanket assign to a group of people, and sounds more like an excuse for poor performance. The only quality one can assign to a small group of people will be lack of competition, which is purely about numbers, although that itself does not mean there won't be good developers in the group - just that that there is a lack of stimuli to grow the baseline.