A lot of new COBOL work just gets shipped off to India to be done cheaply.
> A lot of new COBOL work just gets shipped off to India to be done cheaply.
This is becoming less true for the reason I mentioned above: the pay is much higher for modern languages and tools, which means that the big Indian contracting firms are now training Java/AWS platform devs instead of COBOL. This is creating a growing shortage of COBOL talent that is beginning to impact onshore COBOL dev shops.
The days of the irreplacable, highly paid software engineer who does the bare minimum are over
You invoke emotionalal thinking while my statements are purely factual. Show me your numbers.
Now there is an issue; the salaries in India have not caught up - but they have come up a lot. The infrastructures in India bit a lot of people hard in the arse over covid and a lot of credit was lost there. Also political issues are looming large for people doing offshoring. You might have been very optimistic about the dev shop you've opened in the Ukraine, but that was then.
It's still a true observation. I have never ever worked in a company that has had enough onshore devs to do the work that is urgent and of high value. Never. When that changes I'll be concerned about software salaries.