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  • It attracts passionate and clever people, but as a result comes with a (rightful) reputation of being hard/expensive to hire for.

    Worked at a Scala shop for a while. It was interesting as an outsider to see exactly that play out (I’m a diehard Unix hacker type, love Go etc.). There were some brilliant minds who really seemed to “get” the Scala thing. Then there were others who were more run-of-the-mill Java developers. Scala and the JVM makes all that, and everything in between, possible. With so many Java projects around, the Java devs would come and go depending on team/company factors like job cushiness, salary, or number of days in the office. But the more Scala-leaning people hung around. They made a huge impact on how projects were run.

    The bosses would often talk with me about how hard it was to find those people. From a business perspective, they said it was absolutely worth the effort to find the Scala people despite operational overhead of the rotating door for the armies of Java devs.






  • The reason think that’s good is that companies that you would be looking for would not be easy to find in job boards because the flashy big-spend ones would show up the most. A recruiter would have easy access to the other ones, and might be happy to find somebody who actually wants to take them.

    Haven’t thought about it like that before, but that makes sense. Perhaps because I had a couple of mediocre experiences with recruiters I’ve mostly avoided them since. But as I get more focussed in my search that might make it easier for a recruiter to go hunting, too.

    Thanks for the reply