Frequently Asked Questions

If you want to master Elixir, in a relatively short period of time, from one centralized platform, to reach your goal (deploying a personal project, leveling up your career, etc), we are absolutely perfect for you!

If you’re a hobbyist and only want to dabble with the language because it’s interesting, we may not be the best fit for you. You could likely spend the next 3 - 5 years of trial & error troubleshooting to brute force your way into learning Elixir at an intermediate level without needing to make any investments into your education.

While we don’t teach the fundamentals of programming, we do teach the fundamentals of Elixir. You can begin with little to no experience with Elixir whatsoever and by the end, have the knowledge base of a senior Elixir developer (just without the work experience) but we do recommend you have at least 1-years experience programming with any language before starting with us.

Both! We're a Course BootCamp hybrid, a CourseCamp. Recorded content is 50% of the value and the live coaching sessions are the other 50%. Us helping you find work with Elixir afterward is just a bonus!

Some people expect a quick online course priced around $50 - $500. Others expect a bootcamp priced around $10,000 - $30,000. Truth is we're a bit of both, smack dab in the middle.

Absolutely, this is one of the cornerstones of our program. You can have your new skillset pay for itself before you’re even done paying for it. How’s that for a quick turnaround on your ROI!

Talented Elixir developers are in high demand and we’re building a reputation for producing high-quality programmers in the Elixir community.

We can show you how to dress up your LinkedIn, Resume, & GitHub, introduce you to our hiring partners, show you the best places to find work, offer interview coaching & mock technical interviews, and a whole lot more!

Essentially, we do everything in our power to give you your best possible chances to stand out as the obvious candidate head and shoulders above the rest.

In the course of your career as an Elixir developer expect to earn an annual salary anywhere from $100,000 to $250,000. Naturally, this broad range is dependent on previous experience, expertise, and location with the US paying the highest.

The vast majority of Elixir opportunities are posted as remote because it has been difficult for companies to find competent talent just around the corner.

We’re comfortable recommending people for positions once they are passed the midterm project and so far, 100% of the career-oriented individuals passed that point have been able to find employment programming Elixir.

At full price, $500/mo for 12-mo, you would need to increase your annual salary by $6,000 a year to achieve a return on your investment in the first year and then permanently reap the rewards each year thereafter.

Rather than make every option $6000, we decided to incentivize those who are able to make larger investments upfront with a scaling discount, that way, we have more operating capital to grow and expand our services at a faster rate.

Sometimes life gets in the way, we get it. While we can’t give away our time and energy for free we urge you to connect with Jeremy and we’ll try our best to accomodate your circumstance.

If you go through our program, take action, do all of the work, and don’t get your desired results, ask us for help and we’ll do our best to troubleshoot the problem and fix it so that you can reach your goals. However, if we are unable to troubleshoot your problem and you’ve done all of the work, and we find that Learn Elixir is not a good fit for you, we’ll issue you a full refund right away.

In some situations, we've been able to offer a 75% discount on all pricing options in exchange for 10% of your first year's annual salary. This offer is currently limited to individuals in Canada and the United States who are focused on career growth within the Elixir community.

On a case-by-case basis, we have been known to offer some discounts to individuals living in developing countries up to a maximum of 25%.

Sometimes a developer needs to unlearn bad habits before they can begin best practices.

Since ours is a Lifetime Membership you’ll have the same access to everything on year 10 as you would day 1 so you can progress as quickly or as slowly as your schedule allows.

The good news is, that you can finish as fast or as slow as your schedule allows though we estimate 12 weeks if you’re putting in roughly an hour a day (time frames may vary depending on your previous experience or general comprehension).

Some people like to have an extra kick in the pants to keep progressing every day. To stay on top of your studies there are a number of ways to keep Learn Elixir top of mind: match up with an accountability buddy; weekly progress email reminders; weekly live coaching sessions; community chat notifications; personal messages of encouragement from Co-Founder Jeremy Graham.

Absolutely, in fact, we encourage it! Start your Free Preview here.

Exactly what it sounds like; course content, private Slack channel, live coaching sessions, everything in our offer will always be available to you once you start with any of the pricing options available.

Mika will be your go-to guy for all things Elixir and can be reached via Slack or during the weekly live coaching sessions. You can also engage with our community in the private Slack channel in the Elixir workspace as a lot of the senior developers enjoy helping the more junior ones.

Every Wednesday at 12:00-noon pacific time, Mika will be on Zoom to answer anyone's questions, about anything. Since this time is driven by its members, the direction and destination are up to you!

No, you do not, this is a resource purely available to attend at your leisure.

To ensure best practices, all assignments and projects require you to pass a code review with 100%. Any less, and feedback will be provided to ensure a production level quality of code each step of the way.

As long as you’re able to establish that you’ve learned everything in the prior levels, as seen in these videos, we love it when people bring their own creativity to the curriculum, it’s an absolute win-win.

If you don’t already have an idea in mind we provide recommendations in our midterm project prep video or you can connect with Mika on Slack or in the weekly live coaching session to brainstorm ideas.

If a video becomes outdated because something fundamental has changed with Elixir we will absolutely update our material.

As Elixir becomes world-class in new environments like blockchain, AI, LiveView, etc, we will be creating new content to remain at the forefront of technology.

We know LiveView, have used it ourselves and like it, it's cool to play with. We can offer guidance/advice via Slack or during the weekly live coaching sessions but we haven't created any content for it yet for a couple of reasons 1.) It is still in beta and evolving rapidly so content can quickly become outdated or irrelevant. 2.) It can be quite costly to scale LiveView in production and so it hasn’t become fully commercially adopted yet.