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0 pointsbitcharmer3y ago0 comments

I'm struggling to understand how OCaml reduces the risk of bad hires and other languages don't.

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Languages large swaths of the industry know (Java, C#, JS, Python, etc) include a subset of people who learned it purely for the job opportunities but aren't competent developers. The number of people who learn more niche languages like an ML or Haskell has a far lower % of people of that type.

An example of a language that I could see shifting from one to the other pretty soon is Rust now that it could be a way in to many of the high paying big companies like Google, Amazon, etc.

bitcharmerOP3y ago

I agree with this to some extent. However in case of firms like Jane or Citadel or Quadrature you have to have a well documented, long track record of accomplishments in various orgs before your CV lands on their desks.

These companies hire from a different pool than you described.

kyawzazaw3y ago

I don't know if that is true. As a new grad, I got invited to interview for Point72, Headlands Tech, HRT, Two Sigma. (although some of these are in a different "tier", and different business than Jane Street or Citadel).

I definitely didn't have more special accomplishments than 2 typical internships and both were not FAANG.

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carpfire3y ago

While this may be true, JS explicitly says they don’t expect you to come in knowing Ocaml. So the filtering hypothesis doesn’t really hold.

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