Notices

1. Chris Bowdon (cbowdon@linuxrocks.online)'s status on Friday, 25-Jan-2019 19:32:34 CET Chris Bowdon

   Once again, our new #clojure hire is productive in a couple of weeks. He came in with no Clojure experience (but some Haskell). Hate to harp on about it, but the idea that you can’t find devs or that Clojure is hard to learn is just rubbish if your company is in a city or you have remote workers.

   • Ekaitz Zárraga 👹 repeated this.
   • ☆ Dmitri ☭ (yogthos@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 25-Jan-2019 23:00:49 CET ☆ Dmitri ☭

     in reply to

     @cbowdon nowadays I see Clojure as a helpful filter when hiring. It immediately removes any applicants who aren't interested in learning on the job.

     The nature of the industry is that things are constantly changing, and you have to have the mindset that you will be doing continuous learning.

     If the candidate isn't comfortable learning a new language they're likely not interested in keeping up in general.

     Ekaitz Zárraga 👹 repeated this.
   • Carmen La (nymsi@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 25-Jan-2019 23:03:47 CET Carmen La

     in reply to

     @cbowdon "can’t find devs or that Clojure is hard to learn"

     I've only ever heard this argument from companies that aren't willing to train their devs :)

     Ekaitz Zárraga 👹 repeated this.