[jimbokun]

"I typically write in a very functional lispy style (even when I did JavaScript), and while the overall understanding of FP has improved in the last couple years, a lot of the interviewers would simply not understand what I was writing, and ask me to write it "more object oriented"."

Which is a good way for you to weed out companies where the developers are low to average intelligence.

Not understanding basic functional programming concepts, in 2019? Seriously?

[tombert]

In fairness, the times this happened was 2015, so about four years ago. Still, even by then it was getting to the "it's not ok to not know this" territory.