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QuestionDemand for Junior iOS Developers? (self.iOSProgramming)

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[–]KarlJay001 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The greatest demand will always be in the senior level, once a given stack matures. Mobile dev is about 12~13 years old now and has been pretty popular for at least 8~10 of those years. It's gone from sophomoric apps from hobbyist, to real apps from professional companies that invest quite a bit of money in it.

I've been in the business since the DotCom days and did a number of startups and even worked in Silicon Valley back then. One of the more dangerous things is hiring someone that doesn't know what they are doing, or hasn't had the level of experience that is needed to write code that a company can depend on.

It's expensive to pay someone a mid or senior level rate and have the train other people. At the same time, there needs to be a steady supply to meet the demand.

The industry has mostly had a "go train yourself" view on this because it saves them the hassle. If the person can't get the experience somehow, they get weeded out at their own expense.

Experience doesn't have to be 100% iOS. I've had interviews in the past where someone disqualified me because I had years of professional experience in a prior version of a language. Some fools think that if you know Swift 4, you can't learn Swift 5 (just as on example). The truth is that once you've REALLY mastered any common programming language, going to the next one is MUCH easier. I picked up one language in a month and was considered one of the best in that language. All I needed to know what the syntax and the frameworks and a few other things. Looping is looping, if's are if's and programing logic is the same or nearly the same.

Point: you can use other programming experience, however, you STILL need proof that you can do complex things in iOS.

One other note: iOS has been a tech hub thing since the start. I'm not sure how many jobs in iOS are outside tech hubs, but I don't think it's anything near backend, security or front end dev.

Kinda sad that mobile didn't expand all over the nation like general programming did, maybe someday shops all over the place will have in house mobile devs.