Clojurians Log v2

@ejelome I don’t have any formal qualifications as well and in my experience Clojure companies don’t care more about it than others

true! @ejelome I have been involved in recruiting quite a bit (mostly for tech interviews) and from what I read in your post I would actually love to talk to you (no positions to fill atm though, sry). I am also self-taught (with a science background though…) and there are loooooots of similar profiles in the industry and they keep coming (luckily).

What might be true though is that Clojure companies might have higher standards than some other companies because people are themselves passionate and knowledgable. I know there are also lots of companies who just hire for cheap labor and are fine having lousy devs to hack on their low-quality php website

Your call at which kind of company you would prefer to work 😉

And: Maybe having other domain knowledge can be very useful too (e.g. from whatever you learned before getting into programming)

It's nice to read about your experience. For myself I'm a self thought developer too. After a failed attempt to do "something with media", I started late with programming. But now I won't do anything else. Now the design experience helps me a lot, while creating good looking UIs. Clojure is my weapon of choice, as it allows me to write better code, in fewer time. The community is great and really helpful. Unfortunately I'm location bound and the companies here rely on PHP or Java. 😭

right! such messages are wonderful to keep fresh faces be motivated, and thanks for that 🙂 same here danielgrosse, at work, I do Xojo stuff and recently they put me in PHP work, and yet when I go home, I do Clojure, that's just life I guess, it's just the reality of employment, same fate when I got hooked with Python, all PHP work at morning then Python at night