How to hire low experience, high potential people

Re:How to hire low experience, high potential people by jefc1111 on Wednesday February 07, 2024 @01:24PM (#39292193)

I don't know if I would hire like this, but I do think a lot about the current hiring landscape is pretty broken, so maybe I should! I expect an employer needs a certain amount of cachet before being able to do this or anything else similarly left-field.

Side note - I started down two paths of significant new learning early last year: Security & Elixir / BEAM. I love Security Cryptography Whatever and had no idea you crossed over into the Elixir world (fly.io). Cool!

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Re:How to hire low experience, high potential people by tptacek on Wednesday February 07, 2024 @01:26PM (#39292224)

I've been at Fly.io since 2020. I wouldn't describe us as an Elixir company so much as a company that appreciates Elixir. Some of our backend is in Elixir but the majority of it is Rust and Go.

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Re:How to hire low experience, high potential people by jefc1111 on Wednesday February 07, 2024 @01:33PM (#39292326)

Some significant names from that world on the fly.io roster :) Like a lot of people I feel like Elixir / BEAM has a real value proposition that is unrealised in the wider IT landscape ... but maybe that's not such a bad thing from some perspectives.

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Re:How to hire low experience, high potential people by TylerE on Thursday February 08, 2024 @03:08AM (#39299519)

It’s a really a shame that Java poisoned the GCed JIT Runtime well.

Now everyone assumes that a runtime means it will take 30 seconds and 8GB of RAM to show a loading screen.

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