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CircleCI - I signed the lease on Monday :) https://circleci.com/jobs https://circleci.com/jobs - see also http://blog.circleci.com/silence-is-for-the-weak/ htt

by pbiggar 13y ago

CircleCI - I signed the lease on Monday :) https://circleci.com/jobs https://circleci.com/jobs - see also http://blog.circleci.com/silence-is-for-the-weak/ http://blog.circleci.com/silence-is-for-the-weak/

michaelochurch 13y ago
Circle CI seems like an awesome company. A few unrelated questions. What percentage of your codebase is in Clojure? What have your experiences with it been? (I've really enjoyed using Clojure thus far.) Do you expect to have a need for a machine learning engineer in the next 0-24 months?
- pbiggar 13y ago
  The backend is 100% clojure. The frontend is currently a one-page-JS app in Coffeescript, less and haml. We are experimenting with converting it to ClojureScript/om, and I expect that we will do that soon. So then we'll be 100% clojure! We have tended towards hiring generalists (both in the sense of what they can work on, and what they _want_ to work on). I don't know when that will change, but I don't expect to have a pure-ML position soon.
an___ 13y ago
Looking at the job site https://circleci.com/jobs https://circleci.com/jobs click on "For back-end/full stack developers" Some of the characteristics we're looking for: ... - young, raw, talented devs who can crank out code, Are they really looking to hire young developers only or am I misunderstanding the job description?
- pbiggar 13y ago
  No absolutely not. Some other context from the page: "we've noticed that the following correlate with the type of people that we want to work with. This is not an exhaustive list, nor a list of requirements (in fact, some of them are contradictory), but more of a rough guideline." "senior, experienced developers, who have worked on a decent number of products, have a propensity for shipping often, probably with 8-10 years of experience and amazing coding chops (those having left coding behind them—this isn't the company for you, unfortunately)" So those are two profiles that have worked well for us in the past, but they aren't requirements by any stretch. We're aware that this is kinda confusing, and also that it's not very friendly to a lot of people we're trying to hire, so we'll be updating pretty soon.

by pbiggar 13y ago

michaelochurch 13y ago

Circle CI seems like an awesome company. A few unrelated questions. What percentage of your codebase is in Clojure? What have your experiences with it been? (I've really enjoyed using Clojure thus far.) Do you expect to have a need for a machine learning engineer in the next 0-24 months?

pbiggar 13y ago
The backend is 100% clojure. The frontend is currently a one-page-JS app in Coffeescript, less and haml. We are experimenting with converting it to ClojureScript/om, and I expect that we will do that soon. So then we'll be 100% clojure! We have tended towards hiring generalists (both in the sense of what they can work on, and what they _want_ to work on). I don't know when that will change, but I don't expect to have a pure-ML position soon.

an___ 13y ago

Looking at the job site https://circleci.com/jobs https://circleci.com/jobs click on "For back-end/full stack developers" Some of the characteristics we're looking for: ... - young, raw, talented devs who can crank out code, Are they really looking to hire young developers only or am I misunderstanding the job description?

pbiggar 13y ago
No absolutely not. Some other context from the page: "we've noticed that the following correlate with the type of people that we want to work with. This is not an exhaustive list, nor a list of requirements (in fact, some of them are contradictory), but more of a rough guideline." "senior, experienced developers, who have worked on a decent number of products, have a propensity for shipping often, probably with 8-10 years of experience and amazing coding chops (those having left coding behind them—this isn't the company for you, unfortunately)" So those are two profiles that have worked well for us in the past, but they aren't requirements by any stretch. We're aware that this is kinda confusing, and also that it's not very friendly to a lot of people we're trying to hire, so we'll be updating pretty soon.