I'd say Elixir is an absolute super power when it comes to building a startup with a small team and small budget. It's fantastic if you're an experienced solo d

I'd say Elixir is an absolute super power when it comes to building a startup with a small team and small budget. It's fantastic if you're an experienced solo dev who wants to indie hack. It's also a great paradigm to learn that will level you up if you've never worked with anything similar. I'm not sure it's that great if you're just looking for a job, though. I faced a lot of automatic screening rejections myself—even after having worked at a Chinese startup focused on iOS, at Groupon, at a couple of YC startups working with Node + React and then on my own (failed) startup where the primary language was Elixir. If I recall correctly, every single European company I applied to rejected me without even a phone screen. Later, I did a bit of consulting where I built the back-end of a platform for automated trading. It went well and since then I've gotten quite a bit more inbound interest. Finding decent work with Elixir was harder for me since I'm living in Asia. But it was also easier than it would be for many others, since I have a body of work in the form of hundreds of tutorials on YouTube. What got me my current role was that the founder signed up on Alchemist Camp, hired me on a one month contract for the initial launch of his next startup. That contract was renewed for two more more months and then renewed again in an on-going arrangement. Since the founder is the former CTO of one of YC's top 3 startup successes, I'd say it's the best career opportunity I've had to date. It's worked out well, but in all fairness I'd say that someone with the same experience and a YouTube channel about another technology would have found decent contract work more quickly.