Relevant:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7833251

That was over 11 years ago.

I still work there.

Same here! I am now actually working in compilers, which is one thing I'm really passionate about, but not something I was doing professionaly. I managed to turn a toy project and some blog posts into an actual job at almost 40, so, thank you HN!

If I might ask what does you employer need compiler experience for?

I work at ServiceNow, which sells an enterprise platform and a ton of products built on top of it. Internal teams and customers can extend the platform by writing JavaScript, hence we have a JS runtime in the platform (the venerable https://github.com/mozilla/rhino/), which our team works on.

Huh, interesting. Thanks!

That's amazing! Can you share more?

Did they reach out to you? What was the interview like? Was the post adjacent or directly related to the job tasks?

Same here. And same day from posting to interviewing even.

same. except was an oss lib on github.