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I'd say this is true, but only if you're working with terrible technology. If you're working with Elm or some other cool language/technology I'm sure strategy

• repolfx 8y ago
  I think you radically over-estimate the number of people who want to learn Elm in order to apply for a job. I've done a lot of hiring and we use a "cool" language (Kotlin). We don't mention the language to recruits although it's not a secret (discussed on our website), because we want to hire people with many different platform backgrounds.
  • bm1362 8y ago
    We had a problem advertising Clojure, everyone showed up wanting to write Clojure but didn’t care about our product. As a series A company it was hard to get purist to focus on shipping and we started weeding candidates out that gave off a ‘I just want to work in Clojure’ vibe. Eventually new stuff got written in Java and we migrated off of it due to the hiring pipeline mostly but when we told candidates some honestly dropped out because they were excited to work in Clojure.
    • latte 8y ago
      So can one say that you migrated off of Clojure because it attracts a wrong type of people?
      • jwhitlark 8y ago
        I think advertising "work with X" is usually a problem if people don't care about your domain. Domain first, then the tech can be a nice to have.
• pjmlp 8y ago
  Not really, because most companies will ignore those without Elm repositories on github. I cannot be bothered to create Elm, Haskell, OCaml, F#, Kotlin, Scala, Clojure, Rust, Go, Swift, Angular, React, VueJS, Flutter, Dart .... github repositories, after work on evenings and weekends, just for the tiny chance of getting around the next round. As if almost 30 year of experience across multiple business domains are worthless.