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If Jane Street can teach OCaml to traders, I can teach it to developers. You can if they are motivated to learn. Unless you are offering Jane Street levels of
by akhmatova 4y ago
If Jane Street can teach OCaml to traders, I can teach it to developers.
You can if they are motivated to learn. Unless you are offering Jane Street levels of compensation; and in return, the candidate is willing to believe, or pretend to believe that company's shtick about OCaml being so categorically superior as a general-purpose development language so as to leave all the others in the dust -- most likely they won't be.
- yawaramin 4y agoOr if, you know, they were hired to work on a project where they get paid a salary. That seems to incentivize most devs.
- akhmatova 4y agoNot "a salary", but a Jane Street salary and resume cred. Otherwise you just won't find that many takers.
- yawaramin 4y agoI can assure you I will and in fact have found plenty of takers for my job postings with a niche language. You just need to word the postings appropriately and be willing to teach people what they don't know.
- akhmatova 4y agoYou just need to word the postings appropriately and be willing to teach people what they don't know. OK, I'll grant that if you have that "magic skill" then you can in fact recruit developers for niche languages. Most companies don't, as we know, and frankly it's amazing to me how incoherent their communications are throughout their so-called hiring process.
- yawaramin 4y agoIf having sensible hiring practices is a 'magic skill', then I guess call me Harry Houdini!
- akhmatova 4y agoPer this person's experience (which seems sadly far from atypical), you might as well be: https://www.benjamistan.tech/2022/06/26/wasting-time-in-tech-interviews.html https://www.benjamistan.tech/2022/06/26/wasting-time-in-tech...