How CircleCI Processes 4.5M Builds per Month

Re:How CircleCI Processes 4.5M Builds per Month by laktek on Thursday July 13, 2017 @08:57PM (#14766648)

Yeah, I also found it interesting. Curious what's their hiring pipeline for Clojure devs? I know a couple of startups that picked Clojure ended up having troubles finding good devs.

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Re:How CircleCI Processes 4.5M Builds per Month by priornix on Thursday July 13, 2017 @09:03PM (#14766674)

Well, I found it found it hard to hire Clojure developers too. But I addressed it by hiring good to competent developers, asking if they are willing to learn Clojure and then getting them to implement a test project in Clojure as part of the interview process. Since Clojure is syntactically not huge, it is easy to pickup, for good developers. That's my hiring pipeline. ;)

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Re:How CircleCI Processes 4.5M Builds per Month by kornish on Thursday July 13, 2017 @11:55PM (#14767344)

Out of interest, roughly what percentage of candidates agreed to take on the project?

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Re:How CircleCI Processes 4.5M Builds per Month by priornix on Friday July 14, 2017 @01:17AM (#14767675)

A fairly high percentage. I guess filtering for candidates who are polyglot developers comfortable in more than one language helps. The fact that Clojure is used acts as a filter for self-driven and "better programmers" [1].

[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/pypar.html

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