Hello folks, I was a telecommunications engineering student when I came across the Erlang language.
I was seduced and it looked like a good career for me.
By the description it was a niche language with a high demand on the market.
But it was 3 years ago and and I still did not find an appropriate Erlang position (I applied to all of the very few offers on the internet and it was not only the telecom offers)
How do one find an Erlang job?
PS: screw Elixir by the way
Ask HN: Erlang and the telecom market
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#3Could you work near UTC+1 timezone? ["info",$@,"treesat.io"]. Otherwise, like other commenter said, get lucky, in Europe there may be more job postings than USA.
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#4> screw Elixir by the way
Not the attitude I'd be hiring for honestly.
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#5> screw Elixir by the way Not the attitude I'd be hiring for honestly.
I'd first ask them why they hold the opinion. You might be surprised by the reasoning they have for saying this. Having strong opinions isn't necessarily a bad thing.
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#7> screw Elixir by the way Not the attitude I'd be hiring for honestly.
I'd first ask them why they hold the opinion. You might be surprised by the reasoning they have for saying this. Having strong opinions isn't necessarily a bad thing.
You could say, "I don't want to work for a company using other languages on the BEAM VM" or "I considered Elixir and I don't like it because of X"
It just seems completely out of context and aggressive. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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#8> screw Elixir by the way
If OP is reading… care to elaborate in a more objective fashion?
As an Elixir neophyte, one of the things that is a small frustration for me is that you’ll get to a problem and there just is no solution, and when you ask on the wonderful slack channel, someone will pipe up with a bit Erlang you use for that. It’d be like learning Japanese, and for sizeable pieces of your communication, your instructed to go next door to the Latin class to figure it out.
As near as I can tell, there is no such thing in the real world as a “just elixir” application. Any shop/product of size would probably love to have your Erlang expertise, provided they didn’t feel you were hostile.
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#9> screw Elixir by the way Not the attitude I'd be hiring for honestly.
I'd first ask them why they hold the opinion. You might be surprised by the reasoning they have for saying this. Having strong opinions isn't necessarily a bad thing.
There's a time and a place, though, no? "Screw Elixir" might be fine as an opinion on its own, but in the same breath as "I would like a job"?
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'd first ask them why they hold the opinion. You might be surprised by the reasoning they have for saying this. Having strong opinions isn't necessarily a bad thing.
There's a time and a place, though, no? "Screw Elixir" might be fine as an opinion on its own, but in the same breath as "I would like a job"?
Exactly.