Several year ago, my wife was brought into an Big Insurance Company (though I can't remember who now...Liberty Mutual maybe). Their bench of programmers who had been with the company for decades were getting ready for retirement. They were looking to bring in young folks, to train and keep on for the next several decades. This sounded like a fanstatic idea to idea to me -- alas she was not interested (and for some reason wouldn't refer me to her rectuiter ;) ) Point is, every place is different. --Jason On 05/22/2017 10:33 AM, Evan Koblentz via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
To the trade rags that claim finding COBOL devs is getting tougher, ignore. I'm a C developer, and I picked up COBOL in a few days.
Big corporations are going to have HR policies about only hiring people with many years of experience in the necessary language, not those who "can pick it up".
That's what they mean when they say there are not enough qualified candidates.
I'm not taking sides :) just pointing out corporate reality.
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