I come across some companies from the financial industry when I’m sending in online applications. Places like DRW, which by the way never replied back and I sent in my application two months ago. Same story with state jobs, I never hear back from them.
How does one usually get knowledge in niche and very old areas? I don’t know anyone personally that works in mainframes or systems. My professional knowledge is focused on vanilla JavaScript, PHP, MySQL and Ruby. Not too current, but also not old enough to be associated with retirement age devs.
It would be awesome if a firm would let me work on a MS on the side and have it paid for but that sounds like a unicorn scenario. In my experience most companies neglect training on the job.
(EDIT) I also applied to WITCH firms as I hear second hand they hire any warm bodies and train you to fill the gaps. It's also been quiet on that front, with the exception of Infosys who told me they won't be moving forward with my application for a full-stack developer.
How does one usually get knowledge in niche and very old areas? I don’t know anyone personally that works in mainframes or systems. My professional knowledge is focused on vanilla JavaScript, PHP, MySQL and Ruby. Not too current, but also not old enough to be associated with retirement age devs.
It would be awesome if a firm would let me work on a MS on the side and have it paid for but that sounds like a unicorn scenario. In my experience most companies neglect training on the job.
(EDIT) I also applied to WITCH firms as I hear second hand they hire any warm bodies and train you to fill the gaps. It's also been quiet on that front, with the exception of Infosys who told me they won't be moving forward with my application for a full-stack developer.