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> Setting IT maintenance as a core strategy, rather than something that serves a strategy, is complete death. Employees better hope they like the dead end caree

> Setting IT maintenance as a core strategy, rather than something that serves a strategy, is complete death. Employees better hope they like the dead end career they have at such a company, because it’s going to cut them off from any lifeline to relevancy. I think you have it completely backwards. As an example, having competency maintaining core banking systems is a far safer career long-term than working at some fancy crypto fintech. Work on stuff that's actually important, don't waste your best years on the hype-train of the season headed nowhere.

mlthoughts2018 6y ago
Core banking systems are some of the most horrendous examples of legacy tech debt and duct tape barely keeping a system from falling apart in the whole industry. Pick any large bank, BoA, PNB Paribas, Deutsche, Goldman, JPMorgan, etc. and they all have a widely known reputation for paying poorly, requiring significant extra work hours, offering zero career growth, offering zero opportunity to work on interesting projects, and have some of the most bureaucratic environments with no freedom, no ability to innovate or introduce new ideas, of any industry. If you want to be underpaid, constantly worrying about sword of Damocles layoffs, pushed to work unpaid overtime all the time, all while your job causes skill atrophy and you become unemployable anywhere else because you only do maintenance on a mind-melting abyss of legacy tech debt ... then work in banking.