I used clojure once during an interview and bombed, passed again 2 years later at the same company with Python. Would’ve made a big difference in my equity had I just started then!
Yea functional langs just get in the way during interviews. I can write same imperative code i write in java in scala but it just makes it harder( eg: remember to use var instead of val, mutable collections vs default mutable ect) at which point I am just better off practicing for interviews in java.