Do you have to know/learn EmberJS in order to work at LinkedIn?

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dxer

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Sep 27, 2019 26 Comments

I’m a UI developer and have been working with React for the past few years now. I’m interested in trying out LinkedIn but I heard it’s full of core Ember people there.

Is it true that you will have to use Ember for any Front End UI project there?

(...surely someone is going to say things about React and Facebook...)

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  • LinkedIn / Eng
    phatman

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    phatman
    You don't need to know before you start. But day to day it is 100% ember for web.
    Sep 27, 2019 0
  • Yahoo
    dxer

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    dxer
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    Do people really love it for what it is, or all the resistance have been suppressed for job’s sake? All these core members are either staff or sr staff level or even higher. Wtf?? If I become a core member of Ember, will it be easier for me to get hired at LinkedIn?
    Sep 27, 2019 2
    • There are split opinions, but there are definitely people who love it.

      At staff+, you’ll need solid evidence before you can influence the whole organization. Most people that want React just don’t have that kind of deep expertise to make a stand.

      Plus, even the migration to Ember is not complete. Some of the even older systems are on dust. Glimmer existed as a library because Ember wasn’t able to fill all the gaps in dust.
      Sep 27, 2019
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      dxer

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      Against Tom Dale? Seem losing before even trying...lol
      Sep 27, 2019
  • Yes. All Ember
    Sep 27, 2019 2
  • Not completely true. There are many teams which are using React. I have also built stuff on React, though still most of the teams are still using Ember.
    Since MS is also pushing React, I think eventually React will be more widely adopted. The few Ember engineer i know they hate it.
    Sep 27, 2019 7
    • Yahoo
      dxer

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      dxer
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      I doubt having a opinionated framework trying to solve everything for u in a conventional way is good for u as a dev. Though I can see both good and bad in this cuz there are people always wanna write less code and forget about all the chores they have to do aside from their business logic. But at the same time I feel like the creativity is lost in the process and the mindset is fixated on thinking about how to write codes that fit into the framework ecosystem. React has similar issue but not that big scale it seems and I could still have control over anything else other than the view layer.

      BTW, I actually know of the staffs who constantly works on the TS part.
      Sep 27, 2019
    • Many teams are using react? Which ones? I only know one project that uses it and it’s an inventory app that probably will go away after the Azure migration.
      Sep 28, 2019
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    mvpppppppp

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    mvpppppppp
    I’m not going to mention F. But Amazon, Microsoft, Netflix, and Apple all currently use React. Not throughout the whole company but there are teams using it.

    To rewrite the whole thing at LinkedIn doesn’t make sense. But it’s obviously quite a lone wolf situation here. The only other big name that uses Ember is Square.
    Sep 27, 2019 6
    • New
      mvpppppppp

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      mvpppppppp
      Also Airbnb, Twitter
      Sep 27, 2019
    • Yahoo
      dxer

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      Wait, what part of Airbnb? All those people I know from Airbnb are on react. So is twitter. Were u referring to the internal tooling and metrics team?
      Sep 27, 2019