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I fear it would be difficult to hire Elixir people as well, but now I realize it's actually also hard to hire decent Ruby/Rails people. Honestly I think we sho
by blunte 6y ago
I fear it would be difficult to hire Elixir people as well, but now I realize it's actually also hard to hire decent Ruby/Rails people. Honestly I think we should just accept anyone who can demonstrate thinking and programming skills of any language and then plan for 2-3 months of ramp-up time to get them into our language of choice.
- news_to_me 6y agoI agree, and to be clear I've never really been in a position to worry about hiring anyway. But I would imagine building a medium/large team with varying experience levels (including juniors) would be easier with a more established framework like Rails.
- danjac 6y agoI'd be happy (if I were job-hunting) to be able to try out a different language/platform every so often. Now and again I'll play with, say, Ruby or Elixir or whatever. But I know that I'll never get a job working with these languages because I don't have the n years experience with them. The tech hiring process is gruelling enough with languages and frameworks we are familiar with, your resume won't even get a glance if you apply for jobs where you don't have that experience. But I think that narrow thinking is to everyone's detriment.
- mercer 6y agoI've seen at least a few Elixir jobs where they explicitly specify that you don't need to have experience specifically with Elixir. Don't know how common it is though, and it's true that finding Elixir work can be difficult to begin with.