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The Functional Programming Hiring Problem
June 9, 2024 | 20 min. read If you've ever seen a discussion of functional programming languages on the Internet, you'll have probably noticed one talking point in particular that comes up frequently.
There's tough times in the industry so I don't necessarily fault these people for trying to find work, but it's seriously polluting the hiring process for everyone else (and has turned the job hunt into an arms race for producing the highest number of LLM-slop LinkedIn messages and cover letters). These people typically have little production engineering experience and are basing their opinion of Gooby on a few personal projects, some open-source work, and many blog posts. This problem is so interesting, in fact, that during World War II the Allies proposed air dropping copies of the original paper over Germany.
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