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Re:Better bus predictions (a lot better) by vcryan on Tuesday October 09, 2018 @09:50PM (#18181391)
My apologies for being such an opportunist, BUT, we are hiring for various engineering and product roles at the moment: https://jobs.lever.co/mbta
Re:Better bus predictions (a lot better) by DoreenMichele on Tuesday October 09, 2018 @09:55PM (#18181412)
In case you don't know:

There is a post on the first of every month called "Who is Hiring." You might do better planning to participate in that.

Most recent:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18113144

Re:Better bus predictions (a lot better) by vcryan on Tuesday October 09, 2018 @09:56PM (#18181416)
Thanks!
Re:Better bus predictions (a lot better) by cypherpunks01 on Tuesday October 09, 2018 @09:57PM (#18181420)
Just curious if you're finding it challenging to hire for Erlang? Have you generally hired people with some experience, or do you typically expect new devs to pick it up upon hiring?
Re:Better bus predictions (a lot better) by katehedgpeth on Tuesday October 09, 2018 @10:42PM (#18181563)
I also work in the customer tech department for the MBTA. We use Elixir and all of our web interfaces use Phoenix on top of that. We don’t require anyone to have experience with elixir or erlang; most of our developers have learned on the job. We look for solid general programming skills and a willingness to learn. We’ve had a lot of success with that strategy so far!
Re:Better bus predictions (a lot better) by fastball on Tuesday October 09, 2018 @11:26PM (#18181733)
Discord uses Elixir/Erlang VM too!