I’d love to hear more about it. I’m a new grad who’s done a bunch of internships using functional programming languages but didn’t find a new grad position that does

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    I’ve introduced Clojure to my employer (very large gaming company), so I get to work with it a good amount. Some folks are using Scala on another team, too. Most folks are using Java or Go. Bringing FP to a company is tough, unless you’re already senior and have a good amount of push.

    I think a lot of the more senior devs who want FP have spent years writing OOP and procedural code. They did their time, so to speak. As a new grad coming in, you’ll need to have reasonable expectations here. You’ll likely need to do your time.

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      That is very understandable. I was very very lucky to have spent 5 internships during my University years writing Clojure, Haskell, and Ocaml but unfortunately my life circumstances and the economy have made it so that taking a Python job was my best new grad option. Hoping to get back into a company with good FP culture though, or take the long road and slowly introduce it to my current company 😅