from Hacker News

Haskell Certification Program

by swatson741 on 6/25/24, 7:29 PM with 30 comments

  • by tombert on 6/29/24, 2:37 PM

    I am reasonably certain I could pass this exam, I signed up for the waiting list, but I am doubtful that would in any way translate to any kind of job opportunity.

    Even certs in more commercially popular languages aren’t taken terribly seriously most of the time; I have a few and I eventually took them off my resume to save space.

  • by Avi-D-coder on 6/29/24, 2:53 PM

    As someone who has worked on haskell professionally, it's probably the easiest language to interview in/for. It's really easy to see how deep a dev has gone down the haskell rabbit hole. Forget a certificate, just talk for 5 minutes.

    Any dev who has fully gone down the haskell rabbit hole can definitely grok any other paradigm. The challenge isn't technical skills with devs like this.

  • by rty32 on 6/29/24, 2:32 PM

    > "Stand out to employers"

    Sure...

    99% of employers: it's impressive that you master Haskell and passed this test. Still, you need to solve this leetcode problem (and preferably not using Haskell)

  • by throw156754228 on 6/29/24, 3:16 PM

    It's stupidly difficult to get a Haskell role. There are long time, knowledgeable forum members on the Haskell discourse who have related on there that they've never been able to secure a full time Haskell role.
  • by moomin on 6/29/24, 3:08 PM

    Finally, a commercial application of Haskell.
  • by Waterluvian on 6/29/24, 2:16 PM

    What might be the best example of an open source Haskell project that sees meaningful commercial use?

    I realize I’m not sure I’ve ever seen what that looks like, having only been exposed to personal/small projects.

  • by 7gu on 6/29/24, 5:52 PM

    What they don't tell you is haskell integration is still poor on interview platforms so you will be solving them in python.
  • by mikemitchelldev on 6/29/24, 3:01 PM

    It's probably easy to get certified and still be an incompetent programmer (in the same way it's easy to get a university degree and still be an incompetent programmer)
  • by lupire on 6/29/24, 3:38 PM

    Cool, a cryptocurrency company trying to improve Haskell's reputation.