Hiring Juniors: (not= "Past Experience" "Future Success")
summary
Argues that Clojure teams expand by hiring boot‑camp juniors, citing ~10,000 US grads per year and survey snaps (≈40% writing Clojure ≤1 year, ≈60% ≤2 years; CS grads 4.5% Black, 6.5% Hispanic, ~61% white, ~70% male) and recommends concrete tactics: assess learning speed and question‑asking with a Clojure CRUD or pairing session, bake in 20% study time (Fridays), use Slack channels and one‑on‑ones, adopt 6/6/6 goals, prefer 3 seniors per junior, leverage prior language skills and practical tooling (avoid forcing Emacs).
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chapters (17)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:58Democracy Works
- 1:37confession
- 3:15junior developers
- 5:11community building
- 9:56learning & growth
- 10:35personal motivation
- 11:12find the hook
- 14:04code challenge
- 17:23technical empathy
- 22:29computers are easy; people are hard
- 22:48emotional empathy
- 28:01numbers
- 28:47career changers
- 29:48more than code
- 32:03community enhancement
- 32:49get to work
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