I’ve never interviewed for an Elixir role and was wondering what it would look like to interview in 2025 for such a role. I’m still very much in the process of learning, trying to build some simple things (that I’d want to build anyway, so I’m not really doing it to attract potential employers per se), but might start mixing it up with other things.
I’ve read open source contributions go a long way these days (in the age of AI, this makes sense to me). However, in a past thread about how to find Elixir jobs, consensus seemed to be that this wasn’t the most efficient way due to the nature of most open source projects and how they look very different from the application code most employers want you to write. What projects would you recommend that aren’t extremely macro-heavy?
Besides that, what kinds of coding exercises, if any, would y’all recommend looking into? Are regular DSA questions like writing Linked Lists, Hash Tables, Trees, sorting stuff, etc, common at all in Elixir interviews??
