A Brief Guide to Hiring in Niche Languages Like Elixir

> Be open to training people in Elixir

My last few jobs have all been on teams writing primarily in Elixir, and I was always surprised at how quickly new hires with no prior experience in it were able to pick it up. Junior engineers and even interns who had never been exposed to concepts like an actor model or pattern matching were usually able to be productively writing idiomatic Elixir after only a short period of self-study and mentoring.