It’s being phased out quite aggressively there. Turned out they had such a bad reputation for tech debt thru couldn’t hire people despite paying +50% median Amsterdam developer salaries.
The back side of that coin is: how catastrophically dumb must they be to have a problem that a stranger can solve on a whiteboard in an hour but your whole organization can't in a sprint?
The problem you describe has little to do with C++ and a lot to do with banking.
I said tech stack affects hiring more than salary. I didn't say there is a lack of C++ programmers. I was very explicit about my statement.
This is what OP was hinting at.
2. Rude? The person who replied did what was said. The first sentence implied that my point was indeed correct. Then the second sentence just ignored what the first sentence implied and ignored the point. They seemed to think the problem is a long-standing problem that banks have. Instead of a problem that has been growing for years because the supply of people who know the tech stack is decreasing. It's fair to point out to people you don't think they understand the problem.
3. Misunderstood? I believe they implied in their first sentence I was correct and that they understood the point. They just didn't like the point.
And you better like to come in a proper suit to work, and talk to your work colleges in formal language, regardless of how many years you happen to have worked together.
It seems crazy that in a community like this, people seem to ignore the fact that people move on to the shiny new tech. And those aren't even that new anymore. It feels like same as how Perl programmers acted in 15 years ago when PHP and Python were eating up all the new projects.
Game dev dont pay.
90k top Amsterdam, 135k top at booking, and saw even higher than that for the same position