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by masijo 646 days ago
Well, at least I don't feel so alone now. Same situation here: LinkedIn is silent, or I'm getting really bad offers. My experience being mostly in Clojure certainly doesn't help either.

Plus, interviews have become really intense. I recently had an interview (the first one, "HR") that consisted of me talking about myself and my experience for 10 minutes, without any questions from the interviewer, and then it went straight into a coding challenge (a change-making problem, which I couldn’t finish in time).
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devgoth 646 days ago
You mention that Clojure doesn't help but I would assume that knowing Clojure puts a leg up due to the buzz I see about Clojure on this site all the time. Do you think sinking years into Clojure was a net negative for you?

Note: I really like Clojure and looking to invest time in it but I am scared it will not make me attractive to employers.

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aprdm 646 days ago
hackernews is not representative of the real world, you can pretty much round to zero % the amount of companies in the world using Clojure compared to main stream languages
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meiraleal 646 days ago
you can also round to zero the amount of developers that are proficient in Clojure so this means nothing.

If 0.01% of the tech jobs use clojure and 0.005% of developers are looking for a clojure job that would still be a great position for the few thousands of clojure programmers.

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