Re:The mainframe is alive and thriving
by bluGill on Thursday March 11, 2021 @03:42PM
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Companies that want to hire new people haven't change. If you want a standard web app you can demand someone with experience in the framework of your choice and get it. If you want someone to write in your custom language - you know they have to learn it so you hire people who can learn.
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And not even a super custom language. Get out of the bay area and you'll see tons of job postings that ideally want Go or Scala experience, but will gladly teach you if you have the right fundamentals. That's the only way to get their hiring top of funnel large enough to fill seats.
I really think big iron's customer's problems are that they don't want to pay for quality engineers, but for some reason will pay those higher rates or more for some overpriced consultants. Literally just accepting that the outsourcing dream of 2000 was not a great move and using that money on internal engineering would go soooo far. You see even .gov getting the hint with 18F and the US Digital Service building and supporting non contractor government engineers.