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Wells Fargo customers scramble after deposits disappear from their accounts (www.nbcnews.com)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/1089947

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I’m willing to bet a team of untrained, uneducated, software/data engineers receiving big salaries are responsible for this.

It’s my understanding that big brand banks live on top of brittle, low quality, poorly tested code- and that’s if they’re not straight up using excel to run production processes.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I’m willing to bet a team of untrained, uneducated, software/data engineers receiving big salaries are responsible for this.

I'd be willing to bet that they've outsourced to India instead.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Those possibilities are not mutually exclusive

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

They said big salaries, even onshore devs at banks aren't getting paid big salaries.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Nope, they run COBOL programs on mainframes from the 80s

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

While they do rely on COBOL and old mainframes a great deal, that isn’t the only software supporting the company and its operations. That fact doesn’t negate what I’m speculating would be the cause.

These big banks have multiple programming teams that use different programming languages and work on different products.

If you go to their careers page, you will find tons of Java, .NET, and Python jobs posted. I’ve never seen a COBOL posting at a big bank (which doesn’t mean it’s never happened, but I can see any of these more modern languages posted any given day).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Why are you assuming it’s not just the ceo ordering theft, which is kinda their thing, and blaming some programmers just because they have a living wage?