@shaffan1996 I feel similarly to Sean, I feel what you're asking is more of a business question than a technical one. Can the business support training folks up or do they need more experienced devs? Is domain knowledge more valuable than technical knowledge? As someone who's recruited and interviewed quite a few people for Clojure programming positions I think about this post by Alex Miller and try and figure out where folks are on the learning curve: https://puredanger.github.io/tech.puredanger.com/2011/09/02/clojure-hills-of-abstraction/ I label the humps a bit differently, more like data structures, immutability & state, reduce, higher order fns, etc. If ClojureScript is in play I'm usually working with re-frame so I look for things specific to that framework and managing state on the frontend. I also lean more towards backend development but I have worked through enough frontend and full stack Clojure(Script) projects that I ask about managing things like state on the frontend (component v.s. app-db), communication between components, type 1 v.s. type 2 v.s. type 3 components, without getting into CSS and layout questions.

There are a lot of architecture decisions that aren't really Clojure(Script) specific that can play a large role in how easy it is to work with a codebase.

@danielglauser and @seancorfield Thanks for the awesome answers! I'll be sure to look at that article

Actually are people seeing any interest/demand for more project based clojure work? IE scope out and build something for an org? Or take an existing codebase and work on it to add some functionality? Or is it primarily hiring for a full-time role?

I've not really seen that tbh, which is a shame

cos something like what I'm currently doing in typescript, embedded in an org would work p well as clj by the same measure, but I guess you couldn't hand it over to permies cos they'll all be java or python or what have you

Well that’s frustrating…

permies?

Permanent members of staff (as opposed to contract staff).

Sometimes you'll see FTE (Full-Time Employees) used almost interchangeably (although that ignores part-time staff who are salaried, rather than contracted).

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