Comment on Not mocking cobol devs but yall are severely underpaid for keeping fintech alive

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odium@programming.dev ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

A lot of banks have bootcamps where they pick up unemployed people who might not have ever had tech experience in their life. They teach them COBOL and mainframe basics in a few months, and, if they do well, give them a shitty $60k job.

Source: know someone who went to one of these bootcamps and now works for a major us bank.

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