I work for an org that does a lot of Elixir (on other teams though, I’m actually a Django developer!). I’ve heard from those team leads that they’ve had trouble hiring people with FP / Elixir experience, which is not that surprising to me. Guess it’s a matter of right place right time.
Yeah, right place, right time, knowing right people. I think it's close to impossible to go through from front door cold.
More orgs should hire experienced engineers and train them on the job.
This, a company to find skilled workers in a niche technology is expecting too much.
Practically insignificant numbers of company will do it. They are racing to bottom to shirk their own future developer pool.