Re:The latest trend for tech interviews: Days of unpaid home...
by wink on Saturday April 21, 2018 @10:58AM
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That might be the difference between "investment bank" and "bank" because I've heard stories about near-unhirable people who've been toiling away with Java 1.5 (as late as 2016) at (German) banks. They hated it, wanted to get out, but they'd lost touch with current tech unless they managed to sneak in some off-work hours with non-ancient stuff :/
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Re:The latest trend for tech interviews: Days of unpaid home...
by Hallucinaut on Saturday April 21, 2018 @08:03PM
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Working at a (German) investment bank still using Java 6 and Perl 5 extensively in 2018, I can assure you it's not just retail banks. Legacy technology mires are everywhere in the enterprise world and often the premia to work in those places is precisely for dealing with this kind of old technology and decades of technical debt.
In any case the same bank with Blockchain and big data lakes will also be working with mainframes and COBOL, so generalisations about technology aren't particularly useful when it comes to organisations that are so large.