True I rarely see a job open for a Junior developer.
But what is a Junior/Senior developer? For me the number of years working as a programmer doesn’t define that title at all. I have worked with devs that work in big corporations for 20+ years and they never heard of programming principles like SOLID, loose coupling, TDD, etc. They want job security, a company car, a maximum number of holidays, spend all their time with their family, and are not passionate in programming at all and never improved over their 20+ years of programming. Just get the job done, hack the code, accumulate a huge technical debt over time, short term vision.
For me a Senior profile is a developer that can produce clean, maintainable, extensible and readable code, and that knows the language. You may work for a year and be a Senior, if you grasp things fast. If a company considers you Junior only because of lack of working experience, it’s just an excuse to get you cheap, or I think most commonly that don’t understand that time spent working doesn’t define your skills. Ofc time spent programming still counts as you improve over time, but that is relative to each person.
I guess companies looking for Elixir developers are smaller companies, and they are then in a more fast-paced environment, and don’t have the resources to train beginners in programming. Also a company going for Elixir is probably that some tech person pushed that technology in the company because they care about software quality, and a junior developer can quickly compromise a clean codebase if he is not assisted, and if he doesn’t know the art of producing clean code. Big corporates that tend to use more mainstream languages don’t care so much.
Just my personal opinion and guessing:)
