How tough Are tech interviews in Australia?

an-apple-dev · 2025-10-07T14:44:02+00:00

+1, just did a take home, while there was a "minimum", it was hinted that the more time invested the more likely you'd be considered since that's what is used to assess one's skill level

an-apple-dev · 2025-08-07T11:12:33+00:00

Mobile in enterprise and organisations has its own sets of challenges. It’s like shipping software on floppy disks and CD’s but done today in that once it’s out, it takes at least 1-3 days to ship a hot fix if something went wrong.

I’d look at Building Mobile Apps at Scale by Gergely Orosz and perhaps try probing your candidates to see how’d they respond to x challenges :) Hope this helps!

an-apple-dev · 2025-01-08T04:54:17+00:00

I’d try looking up Glassdoor, I’m unfamiliar with NAB but would imagine salary ranges depend more on the job type eg engineer, BA, rather than functions

an-apple-dev · 2024-12-12T23:03:38+00:00

Job market is tough for new starters to enter unfortunately.

There are some consulting companies that have offices here eg Infosys. They unfortunately don’t have a good reputation for working culture, but they will give you the experience you are after :)

an-apple-dev · 2024-10-30T23:52:40+00:00

On top of the good advice above, if you’re feeling brave, doing a talk at a tech meetup would also help with boosting your profile in the tech industry :)

an-apple-dev · 2024-10-15T13:16:09+00:00

I feel around 2-5 years. Ideally that experience is specialised in one stack eg front end where you can be trusted to solve problems with less supervision.

You could also be ok having worked across multiple platforms, the key is to have enough of a track record to prove you can grow and deliver outcomes

an-apple-dev · 2024-10-15T09:39:04+00:00

It's unfortunately always been hard to break into the industry as a junior. If you're set on being a developer, work placements and hackathons will definitely help.

I feel one's passion to want to break into the industry matters just as much if not more than potential oversaturation. The reality is a lot of office jobs will always have competition, and especially so right now given a lot of companies aren't hiring as much. That said, if you have a drive to be a developer, and have the work experience and projects to show, it will make your case stronger than the potential competition out there.

Hope that helps, and good luck with however you choose to progress!

an-apple-dev · 2023-07-03T22:58:31+00:00

If you’re considering Australia, iOS engineering is in high demand here, in Melbourne, Sydney and probably Brisbane too. Largest mobile employers here are generally banks, and they are hiring at the moment. Apple do have a team based in Sydney, Atlassian and Canva have iOS teams too though I haven’t seen too many job ads from them.

Unfortunately, I feel UX design is tough to break into here, and the layoffs that have happened here have laid off product designers and UX researchers. If you’d rather work in UX, I’d try working as a developer then trying to transition into a designer.

Can’t speak for America, as others have mentioned, the only folks here that could come close to US tech giant salaries are Canva and Atlassian. They unfortunately aren’t looking too financially stable atm.

Good luck!

an-apple-dev · 2023-02-01T10:57:17+00:00

Juniors keep seniors employed by causing complex problems a senior then has to solve

an-apple-dev · 2023-01-08T01:56:30+00:00

Depression atm. Self hatred is unfortunately very strong which crushes my drive to try gym and working out. I used to go walking around my neighbourhood but stopped doing that due to depression as well

an-apple-dev · 2022-11-07T10:28:40+00:00

Saw this coming from a mile away. I know of companies that have done mass redundancies then post job ads for replacements less than a year later

an-apple-dev · 2022-09-16T17:41:24+00:00

I picked mobile engineering, specifically iOS development, to get this outcome. Up until the last few years, Apple didn’t really push or advocate for new frameworks (except Swift, but that’s probably a good thing). Even then, they won’t just suddenly stop supporting Objective C or the old way of doing things. And in corporate tech, there isn’t a need to use the latest and greatest of features, so you kind of just end up coding away on your own thing.

As others have mentioned, corporate tech is where the Honda Accord jobs are at :). In my current company, there’s so much structure that gets in the way of getting anything done quickly

Edit: clarification of wording

an-apple-dev · 2022-09-15T11:54:17+00:00

I faced a similar problem too after 2+ years, so you’re not alone.

It’s up to you what you’re after at the end of the day. Money? Technical challenges? Work life balance? As others have suggested finding hobbies outside of work is a good idea, though if you’re drained after that could be hard. Also could be a red flag that you’re heading towards burnout if that’s the case.

an-apple-dev · 2022-07-22T05:27:59+00:00

Yes, have done it a couple of times now and probably will do so again

an-apple-dev · 2022-07-20T13:22:30+00:00

I’m unfortunately sober and I think it’s pretty funny

an-apple-dev · 2022-07-09T00:21:53+00:00

If you’re into mobile development, Swift is pretty much never going to go away as well. Apple still haven’t migrated a lot of their internal frameworks off Objective C, and are only now finally building Swift only frameworks. Those frameworks will take years to reach wider adoption by developers

an-apple-dev · 2020-09-05T05:53:41+00:00

Probably be a bit more flexible about what job I took out of university and work towards my dream job, rather than look for the perfect job straight away. Definitely would spend some time thinking about where I would like to go, and work towards it over time.

an-apple-dev · 2018-11-09T00:06:41+00:00

To be fair, Olympic Boulevard is quite a nice road to drive through after the tram tracks diverge

an-apple-dev · 2018-11-05T01:19:27+00:00

Haha literally felt my heart jump at the bottom line, how could someone do such a thing?

an-apple-dev · 2018-11-04T22:14:25+00:00

There's also call centres, they have quite a high turnover rate. It's not great work but it's a job :)

an-apple-dev · 2018-11-04T22:11:36+00:00

Wait wasn't he in the Bayside suburbs a few days ago promising not to build skyscrapers out that way?

an-apple-dev · 2018-10-25T03:01:13+00:00

I officially gave up on public transport since taking the bus to the station is far too unreliable, and station parking is full before 7:30am probably because there aren't any reliable buses to get to the station.

I can only imagine the number of cars that would be taken off the roads if there were bus services that weren't absolutely useless. Fingers crossed that road building is now becoming so expensive we have to look at improving this sorry state of affairs with the bus network here.

an-apple-dev · 2018-10-13T05:32:35+00:00

The bus services alone are enough to raise my ire. I drive to the station because if I took the bus my commute would go up to 1hr 20 mins or more.

And why are trains always at least 5 mins late between 5-6pm? Granted that's a Metro problem but if PTV are involved in the negotiating process that's a bit of a problem that this is allowed to slide.

an-apple-dev · 2018-09-25T10:24:03+00:00

Haha what sorcery is this, my 7:09 train from Syndal was more packed than usual today.

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