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So how does one get a job in Elixir or erlang without doing erlang for the last 1,2,5,10 years?

by Muromec 2y ago

sieabahlpark 2y ago
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lawik 2y ago
The years help. As they do everywhere. Competitive job market all around right now. Taking the question at face value, I don't know your intent, and not as a bitter commentary on the experience of trying to find a job with tech one likes: I know people that did embedded C++ that got recruited into doing Elixir on a Nerves project. I know lots of people who have just switched their web work in Ruby or Python to Elixir. Either by finding the job or doing the work for getting the tech adoption OK:ed at current employer. Most Elixir devs I know did not have prior Erlang experience. But most did have prior dev experience. The BEAM ecosystems solve problems you mostly encounter with some experience. I have also seen and onboarded several junior folks into the ecosystem and jobs as their first professional thing. Connecting and collaborating with people who could vouch for you when the opportunity comes is a good starting point. But there are many paths. (edit: fix a spelling)
petesergeant 2y ago
Sneakily introduce it at your current workplace for a specific project, and then after a year you have commercial experience
- Muromec 2y ago
  That's the standard way, that one I know.
cultofmetatron 2y ago
Just hired a elixir dev recently. Assuming you already have experience developing in another platform, learn elixir and My advice would be to be active on the elixir slack and to have a few projects. Develop experience with ecto/oban/phoenix. theres plenty of jobs. There just aren't many people that know elixir well.
- enraged_camel 2y ago
  Nah, there actually aren’t that many Elixir jobs. You can tell from browsing the #jobs channel on the Elixir Slack workspace, and the jobs sub forum.

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So how does one get a job in Elixir or erlang without doing erlang for the last 1,2,5,10 years?

by Muromec 2y ago

So how does one get a job in Elixir or erlang without doing erlang for the last 1,2,5,10 years?

sieabahlpark 2y ago
[dead]
lawik 2y ago
The years help. As they do everywhere. Competitive job market all around right now. Taking the question at face value, I don't know your intent, and not as a bitter commentary on the experience of trying to find a job with tech one likes: I know people that did embedded C++ that got recruited into doing Elixir on a Nerves project. I know lots of people who have just switched their web work in Ruby or Python to Elixir. Either by finding the job or doing the work for getting the tech adoption OK:ed at current employer. Most Elixir devs I know did not have prior Erlang experience. But most did have prior dev experience. The BEAM ecosystems solve problems you mostly encounter with some experience. I have also seen and onboarded several junior folks into the ecosystem and jobs as their first professional thing. Connecting and collaborating with people who could vouch for you when the opportunity comes is a good starting point. But there are many paths. (edit: fix a spelling)
petesergeant 2y ago
Sneakily introduce it at your current workplace for a specific project, and then after a year you have commercial experience
- Muromec 2y ago
  That's the standard way, that one I know.
cultofmetatron 2y ago
Just hired a elixir dev recently. Assuming you already have experience developing in another platform, learn elixir and My advice would be to be active on the elixir slack and to have a few projects. Develop experience with ecto/oban/phoenix. theres plenty of jobs. There just aren't many people that know elixir well.
- enraged_camel 2y ago
  Nah, there actually aren’t that many Elixir jobs. You can tell from browsing the #jobs channel on the Elixir Slack workspace, and the jobs sub forum.