I must not have communicated my feelings well enough. What I'm saying is that I do not see FP experience on my resume as a game changer.
In January; I went through 90 interviews for a Senior Level Position. Not one person ever asked anything about ELM, F#, Closure, OCAML, or the rest.
What they wanted was top to bottom experience from specific things like Typescript, JavaScript, React, Angular, Devops Pipelines, Microservices, SQL, NoSQL, GraphQL and either Node or ASP.NET for backends.
I'm also not indicating that I reject learning it, rather that it is just low on my priority list, that's all. I look forward to reading more about your experiences and hope this is the start of a series that changes my mind.
Oh right, I understood it the other way around... I'm French, so that happens 😁
Opinion ahead... nobody is asking you about it because they dont know about it.
And few people are humble enough to tell when they dont know... especially in asymetic situations such as interviews, when the interviewer is supposed to "know better", for some absurd reason.
I've interviewed a fair share of candidates, and not seen much who had FP experiences... I'd definitely give some bonus to those who do speak about it.
That being said, FP is slowly, but steadily gaining traction, and I believe those who will know about it will have an easier time dealing with the future.
For instance, several TC39 propositions are about integrating typically FP features into Javascript (such as this or this)
I must not have communicated my feelings well enough. What I'm saying is that I do not see FP experience on my resume as a game changer.
In January; I went through 90 interviews for a Senior Level Position. Not one person ever asked anything about ELM, F#, Closure, OCAML, or the rest.
What they wanted was top to bottom experience from specific things like Typescript, JavaScript, React, Angular, Devops Pipelines, Microservices, SQL, NoSQL, GraphQL and either Node or ASP.NET for backends.
I'm also not indicating that I reject learning it, rather that it is just low on my priority list, that's all. I look forward to reading more about your experiences and hope this is the start of a series that changes my mind.
Oh right, I understood it the other way around... I'm French, so that happens 😁
Opinion ahead... nobody is asking you about it because they dont know about it.
And few people are humble enough to tell when they dont know... especially in asymetic situations such as interviews, when the interviewer is supposed to "know better", for some absurd reason.
I've interviewed a fair share of candidates, and not seen much who had FP experiences... I'd definitely give some bonus to those who do speak about it.
That being said, FP is slowly, but steadily gaining traction, and I believe those who will know about it will have an easier time dealing with the future.
For instance, several TC39 propositions are about integrating typically FP features into Javascript (such as this or this)
I'm looking forward to reading your series on FP. Thanks!