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by nyx_land
1510 days ago
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What I've always wondered about this is what kind of experience companies hiring COBOL programmers are looking for. Anyone can learn COBOL the language, but it seems like the real issue with hiring COBOL devs is that you need to have experience working with mainframe technologies that are basically impossible to get any experience with outside of already having a job doing it. Kind of like how anyone can learn $some_other_language but what really matters for getting work done tends to be familiarity with libraries and stuff like that. If it were as easy as learning COBOL for free on my own time I would do it in a heartbeat. Can't be worse than having a dead-end IT support job. |
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Most (IME, and I suspect generally) of the places hiring COBOL devs already have COBOL devs (and probably non-developer mainframe ops folks) doing those other tasks already, and if someone is both a half-competent programmer and knows COBOL-the-language, having them pick up the other stuff through OJT is probably tolerable.