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<p>If you are interviewing a candidate for a Senior Elixir role, what coding question or exercise would you give them for an interview of 1hr?</p>
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<p>One that’s relevant to what you’re building and the Elixir tools you are using (Phoenix? Nerves?) <img src="https://forum.elixirforum.com/uploads/default/original/2X/6/6c3193d1dd46244da3c8c6f719c9f5e2abdd5ae8.gif?v=15" title=":003:" class="emoji emoji-custom" alt=":003:" loading="lazy" width="20" height="20"></p>
<p>Seriously tho, maybe a different way to look at it might be “How would you find or recruit an experienced Elixir developer?”</p>
<p>That may vary for person to person but a good place to start might be:</p>
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<li>See if they’ve released any OS projects and their general OS activity (and review the quality of it)</li>
<li>See if they’re a blogger or conference speaker (or even podcaster) (do they communicate well? About topics you feel are in line with that you’re looking for?)</li>
<li>See if they’re active on places like the forum (again, do they communicate well? Are they amiable? Have they got a lot of accepted solutions? Are they the type of person you would want to work with?)</li>
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<p>If you want to hire <em>someone special</em> then you probably should put just as much work in trying to find them (if not more) than you might expect of them to impress you at an interview…</p> 
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<p>That’s definitely a good question but on the other hand you can’t expect people to hire you just because you said you have qualifications. At some point some proof should be provided.</p>
<p>One thing I did <em>severely</em> wrong in my life and career was not investing in public portfolio – in our case, GitHub open-source repos. That can help you skip a good amount of steps in many interviews.</p> 
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								<p>Most of those criteria are great for people without families or responsibilities who have free time to spend after work. Actually, even then, I don’t know if I want to work with people with such narrow interests and hobbies outside of work.</p> 
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<p>Definitely agree. This is why I’m always hesitant to complain about coding tests even though I really don’t like them.</p>
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								<p>I was impressed by this interview - <a href="https://tanzu.vmware.com/content/blog/how-we-interview-at-pivotal" class="inline-onebox" rel="noopener nofollow ugc">How We Interview at Pivotal - Tanzu</a></p> 
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<p>Sure, talking at conferences and writing blogs would maybe be a bit much at certain stages of your life. But you could argue that, for Elixir, contributing to OS projects from time-to-time would be expected for any paid job given that the vast majority of tools and libraries we use are OS. Even if it’s just PRs to fix up or extend documentation, or to fix a small, irritating bug. It shows a certain kind of care and initiative that I would value if I was hiring as well as giving an idea of communication and coding skills.</p>
<p>FWIW I have worked side-by-side with 6 different developers in the last 12 months. They are all at different life stages. All have recently contributed to various OS projects. Some in a small way, some in a significant way. Some of them are working for one of the sponsors of these forums, so it could be that open source contribution was part of the hiring process.</p>
<p>And while <a class="mention" href="/u/dimitarvp" rel="nofollow">@dimitarvp</a> mentions that he hadn’t built a track record of GitHub repos, he had built a track record of contributions to the community, e.g. through this forum. As have you, although not quite as long as Dimi’s yet! This also shows the care, initiative, communication ability and often technical skill that you can point to in a hiring process.</p> 
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								<p>I wouldn’t do it before both parties were invested in the processes, ie after some interviews.</p> 
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								<p>Doing OS is a huge time investment, I never could afford that at my previous jobs and I’m sure a lot of other people are in my boat. If the company would allocate some time for it, it would be another question, but a lot of companies never care about the libraries powering their product and this is true not only for elixir.</p> 
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								<p>Yes and no. Companies rarely care about OSS contributions by themselves but those who interview you have more exposure to the technical side of things and to them those are impressive credentials. It definitely can serve to give you one foot firmly in the door.</p> 
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								<p>I am in process of making some OS libraries, so I will give a feedback later if this works :).</p> 
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