jobs-discuss

Job hunting, interview process and anything related to the experience of a job writing the Clojure language.
ag 2019-10-23T06:57:49.005900Z

My personal advice: don’t position yourself as a junior. There’s no such thing as “junior Clojure dev”. Tell the truth - you’re excited about Clojure and really want to write Clojure at your full-time job.

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mattly 2019-10-23T14:37:54.009900Z

With the caveat: I’ve been considered a “senior” or better for like nine years now, I took a small pay cut to go from Scala+JavaScript to go to Clojure/Script, And four years and two jobs later took a good pay increase to go to golang+JavaScript, in a much better work environment

mattly 2019-10-23T14:38:41.010800Z

Choosing jobs based on tech stacks hasn’t worked out for me

mattly 2019-10-23T14:39:37.011800Z

That said, I feel my time working in Clojure was well-spent

2019-10-23T14:40:11.012300Z

with Clojure jobs it's more difficult to find something that ticks all the boxes of course, since they are much more rare

2019-10-23T14:40:32.013100Z

it's still worth to switch though imho, even if it will be a lot harder to go back to anything else after

mattly 2019-10-23T14:53:21.013600Z

Yeah