Like most creative people, we have plenty of ideas. Filtering quality ideas out of our idea torrent, however, is the hard part. We use a simple process to figure out which ideas are worth more attention. It isn't perfect, but neither are we, so it feels like a good fit.

Getting that first job experience is the difficult part of breaking into tech. Most advice about getting experience falls into two categories: work with open source, and build more projects. Elixirized will offer a third option.

Getting hired is great. Looking for a job and enduring the interview process is not. Insider Secret: Almost everyone, including hiring managers, is bad at this. Here is your cheat code to have the best jobs come to you.

Junior developers are often stuck between the rock of no commercial experience and the hard place of expectations by hiring companies for exactly the experience they don't yet have. The Elixirized team is working to solve that.