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Ray Barnett21:09:40

Are there any positions/leads available for a relatively new Clojure developer with 3 years of software development experience outside of Clojure?

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seancorfield00:09:26

This isn't a channel to ask/look for jobs, but it's a good channel to ask about how to find Clojure jobs when you don't have Clojure experience. Hopefully, folks can link you to previous discussions if you can't find them in the scroll back.

Rupert (All Street)08:09:32

@U043D8YDWQZ I do a lot of the interviewing at All Street. Here are a few tips: • You can find clojure jobs on this slack community, linked in, head hunters and clojure/remote/programming job boards • Since there are a limited number of Clojure Devs, many companies will take developers with little or no professional Clojure experience - but you should try to have some personal/hobby experience (the more the better). • Clojure is a small language (e.g. much less syntax than Scala). So learning it doesn't have to take that long (mastering it and being idiomatic with Clojure may take a couple of years though). • Clojure/ClojureScript is a hosted language so any knowledge of the underlying platform (JVM/JavaScript) or key libraries (e.g. React) can be very valuable • Expect to have to write Clojure in the interview or as a 'homework assessment' even if you are not very experienced with it. So try to learn Clojure in your free time (or even find a way to incorporate it into your current employers projects). • Emacs is a great IDE for Clojure - but learning a new IDE + new programming language can be a lot to handle at once (so do consider using something more familiar like VS Code, VIM or Intellij).

Fahd El Mazouni09:09:03

if you're willing to move to Lyon, my company is hiring !

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Ray Barnett15:09:14

I'm definitely interested in that @U9W44J4RW.

Ray Barnett15:09:30

Thank you, would you like me to email you my resume?

Gabriel Kovacs13:10:36

I would be interested to know which clojure/remote/programming job boards should I monitor 🙂 . I did not really find anything via LinkedIn. I am based in the EU.

Rupert (All Street)13:10:39

#C06B40HMY#C05006WDWhttps://jobs.braveclojure.com/ • Indeed • Linked In • https://weworkremotely.com/https://remoteok.com/https://hnhiring.com/ I haven't checked these for new roles - but often you can try emailing the companies that have advertised on them in the past to see if they are hiring still. e.g. Some companies may have hired with a job board in the past but now get by with word of mouth and recruiters but could still be open to a cold email job application.

Gabriel Kovacs13:10:24

Thank you for the information and the advice!

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jrotenberg14:10:28

the key with some of those places is to learn how to weed out the “actually using clojure” from the “we put clojure in a big list of languages in the job description but aren’t actually using it” posts

Gabriel Kovacs14:10:27

If the job title does not include Clojure I usually ignore the posting. Even more funny are titles like "Java Backend Developer" where the second mentioned skill in the posting is Angular 🙂 .