The new hire who showed up is not the same person we interviewed

Re:The new hire who showed up is not the same person we inte... by fxtentacle on Monday January 31, 2022 @03:53PM (#30154168)

Old people who manage legacy systems, like that one guy duct-taping a bank's online operations.

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Re:The new hire who showed up is not the same person we inte... by _dain_ on Monday January 31, 2022 @03:58PM (#30154230)

Are they really the "best" developers? It just sounds like a different skillset and mindset, not necessarily better or worse.

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Re:The new hire who showed up is not the same person we inte... by ygjb on Monday January 31, 2022 @04:16PM (#30154509)

I am willing to wager in a broad sense, that the best COBOL, Fortran, and RPG, that "Old people who manage legacy systems" is probably a fair estimate, and there is probably narrow overlap between developers for those languages and git experience.

There are lots of younger folks who fall into supporting these platforms through experience, but I would also wager that the number of fresh, doe eyed engineers graduating from uni/college thinking "I am going to be the best COBOL programmer!" can probably be counted on one hand :P

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Re:The new hire who showed up is not the same person we inte... by Spooky23 on Monday January 31, 2022 @08:08PM (#30157315)

I encountered such a person. Her parents were both mainframe nerds and she was a true believer. I think the shock of working as a 23 year old in a group of geezers that had been fighting each other since 1975 was traumatic.

We stole her and she was a pretty awesome DBA last I knew.

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Re:The new hire who showed up is not the same person we inte... by sharken on Monday January 31, 2022 @08:50PM (#30157625)

Nearly all DBAs i have worked with have been great. Not sure why that is, but it's been very consistent.

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