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> I do think that Clojure shops (like all software shops) need to dial back the torture interviews / homework / tests I work in three main language, including
by jb1991 6y ago
> I do think that Clojure shops (like all software shops) need to dial back the torture interviews / homework / tests
I work in three main language, including several years of Clojure work. When I applied to a new Clojure shop in Germany, the first step was a lengthy take-home assignment that was time-consuming and vague. After spending a couple days on it, I never got a reply.
A second Clojure startup in Italy did the same to me.
In both cases, there was zero guidance and it felt more like a guessing game about what they were looking for than an actual coding evaluation.
I have never experienced this in any of the other langauges I've used professionally. I've had to do simple, short technical screens, but only Clojure companies seem to expect that you give up big amounts of your time for no pay for the honor of applying to them.
That really needs to change.
- simongray 6y ago> That really needs to change. Here's a different anecdote: I've had two Clojure-only jobs here in Denmark and neither of them had any homework assignments. I got hired at the first and only interview in both cases. One was my first job after finishing uni and the other one was the job after that. Now I work at Copenhagen University, also writing Clojure and ClojureScript (so the third Clojure job, although it was never advertised as such) along with a little bit of Java for projects inherited from my predecessor. I didn't have any programming assignment while interviewing here either. It's not that we don't get interview assignments in Denmark, but I've only had to do them in Python, PHP, Java, and Javascript - i.e. mainstream languages.