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Re:GnuCOBOL 3.1.1 by randmeerkat on Friday December 11, 2020 @02:16PM (#25389520)
Do these jobs train you in on COBOL, or do you have to be an expert in it already? If you have to be an expert already how are people learning COBOL / preparing for the interview to get this kind of job?
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Re:GnuCOBOL 3.1.1 by phendrenad2 on Friday December 11, 2020 @03:06PM (#25390259)
Having applied to a few COBOL jobs in my youth, and getting no response back, I suspect that the COBOL shortage is like the general "programmer shortage" in that it really means "(senior) programmer shortage (willing to work for below prevailing wage)"
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Re:GnuCOBOL 3.1.1 by throwaway201103 on Friday December 11, 2020 @10:36PM (#25395245)
If you're experienced in another language, you can learn COBOL in a week or two. My first job out of school was with a consulting firm that would take new-hire non-programmers and have them on a client site writing COBOL in 3-4 weeks.
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Re:GnuCOBOL 3.1.1 by randmeerkat on Saturday December 12, 2020 @06:07PM (#25402666)
That’s fast. Aside from the common complaints people have about legacy code and so on, what was the hardest part of ramping up in COBOL?
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