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by jamesponddotco 331 days ago
My brother works with COBOL for a bank here in Brazil, he is young (in his 20s), started before finishing his degree. Pay is poor, hours are insane, he is overworked as hell, and anything “modern”, like git, is out of the question.

He’s trying to learn Go now and modernize himself to see if he can get out. I’m trying to help as much as I can. Hopefully, he’ll land a job somewhere else this year.
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forinti 331 days ago
I can't understand why a financial institution would underpay someone who has such responsability.

The recent hacking of BMP shows the risk this creates (poorly paid employee with debts sold his password to hackers).

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fock 331 days ago
at the banking place I work running things in k8s, z/OS-people are actually the ones running custom git clients in go on z/OS. Bonus: they have no nosy Java devs (recurringly producing threading bugs...) saying "but we all use spring boot!!!" and likely no manager asking "is this cloud-ready???"
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