Comment by throwaway2037

    > Clojure was not a hiring barrier - it was a hiring filter.

It makes me think about this HN comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11933250

    > Jane Street Capital's Yaron Minsky once said that contrary to popular belief hiring for OCaml developers was easier because the signal to noise ratio in the OCaml community is so much better than other, more approachable languages.

I saw a YouTube vidoe years ago that featured Yaron Minsky. He made similar points. In short, some programming languages are like catnip for excellent programmers.