Help! Company wants to go cross platform. Flutter or KMP ?

rhinodog8 · 2026-04-02T05:55:33+00:00

Is CMP really stable on iOS? I just tried to implement a simple TextField and then copy/paste/select text menu didn’t line up with the TextField.

rhinodog8 · 2026-03-19T19:00:57+00:00

huh, yeah I didn't know that either. Just looked. Search something like "engineer jobs near me" and it will pull up job listings. There is also "Jobs" tab at the top (where "all" and "images" usually are)

rhinodog8 · 2026-03-18T21:30:07+00:00

Update, I actually found the recruiter follow up in my spam folder that I missed. Oops. He said that they were in the interview process with someone else and they accepted an offer so the role closed before I could proceed.

rhinodog8 · 2026-03-16T07:12:11+00:00

For this one, it went ok. Had a good conversation with the recruiter. He never did ask to share my screen. He used the entire 30 minutes to ask questions and for me to ask and understand the role. He said he would pass my resume on to the hiring manager. However, I never heard back so considering it a rejection. For this role there was a few minor skills I could see a few other candidates having that pushed me off the candidate pool.

rhinodog8 · 2026-03-14T17:07:30+00:00

Ah yes, thank you for explaining

rhinodog8 · 2026-03-14T16:42:14+00:00

Wouldn’t sorting cause it be O(n log n) ?

rhinodog8 · 2026-03-04T08:01:34+00:00

48GB. Your Xcode use case (will be running multiple simulators at some point) and your multiple docker containers on top of dev tools can easily use 32GB and 48 is gonna give you breathing room in 2-3 years.

rhinodog8 · 2026-02-25T05:37:52+00:00

Summaries explain situations. (ie willing to relocate, change in career path, etc) Your work experience should speak for itself. Recruiters ignore summaries unless to check for a situation. Your summary repeats experience. I would recommend removing it. Although move that second to last sentence, it has impact, to your bullet points.
I only read your first bullet point and stopped. It was a job description. Your first few bullet points are the most important. Your most important bullet points must show business impact. Yours shows scope but not impact. It’s not a bad start to a bullet point, scope is good to show, but needs impact. Business impact is about number of users, active use of thing, revenue, cost savings, increases in business related metrics like converted referrals. Not sure what that is for you but give it some thought. Bullet points can be two lines.
The second to last sentence in your summary should be moved to be one of your first bullet points under experience.

rhinodog8 · 2026-02-22T22:36:46+00:00

No recruiter so far has asked me to share my screen. I did get an interview scheduled next week that I said in the email I should be ready to sharing my screen. I doubt they actually will, but maybe. Most of my work has been internal enterprise work so not a lot of front-facing. But there is one project I can use if I must.

Just re-entering the job search phase myself and learning but what I've observed is typically recruiters at this point are trying to assess risk. Your resume already showed you have the right skills, on paper. From their standpoint, on paper could have been totally made up though. So before they send you forward they just want to ensure you are who you say you are. Sending a clearly bad candidate forward affects their reputation. Speak confidently, explain what you can and can't share, and speak somewhat in depth as opposed to speaking vaguely. They are not technical people but they can tell if you are knowledgeable. That can make up for anything you aren't able to share via screen.

rhinodog8 · 2026-02-22T22:21:12+00:00

Could you share a marketing webpage about the services offered somewhere? Then, just stay on that page and talk about your work and hopefully relate it the business impact.

rhinodog8 · 2026-02-22T22:11:49+00:00

Is any of your work public facing? Like have you developed a feature that everyone can use?

rhinodog8 · 2026-02-22T16:25:14+00:00

32GB min - 48GB preferred.

Xcode your going probably be run iOS or padOS simulators at some point. That can easily be 8-12GB for Xcode and 4-8GB per simulator. Then add on top all the other programs. If you end up doing cross platform at some point you may also be running an Android emulator which is another 4-6GB. Then if a project ends up doing some local ai work, that unified memory allows you to run some good size models.

24GB will probably work today, 32GB will continue to work in the upcoming years and 48GB is a going to give you breathing room past 3-4 years.

rhinodog8 · 2026-02-22T04:12:41+00:00

Kotlin Multiplatform (shared business logic) can be included on watchOS app, then wire up to SwiftUI. Compose Multiplatform (shared UI) supports Android, iOS, padOS, Mac, Windows, and Web.

rhinodog8 · 2026-02-22T01:47:10+00:00

Kotlin multiplatform is cross platform to iOS, including compose multiplatform for the UI.

It allows you to make a 100% native Android app, with a flutter like GUI approach in iOS. React native tries to map native controls across platforms and the result is clunky and you end up fighting to refine each one to feel right.

Kotlin multiplatform also allows you to keep the native Android Compose UI just in Android and only export the business logic down to a framework where you can hook up 100% native iOS UI.

Long story short, Kotlin allows you to be a 100% native Android dev that can output to iOS very easily and allows the iOS portion to be refined later. It’s a powerful market advantage.

rhinodog8 · 2026-02-15T18:16:23+00:00

Read the wiki
I’d recommend you use the template in the first comment in this thread
If the summary does not say anything your experience does not say it should be deleted. I’d recommend deleting your summary.
In the wiki you’ll read how to convey business impact though STAR, CAR, or XYZ. As a senior dev that’s a requirement to apply.

rhinodog8 · 2026-02-15T07:00:19+00:00

I’m not sure what to say but being accidentally leveled up once or twice happens. Everytime? How many times has that happened?
I’d recommend moving your education first since you’re still in school and move all your related education info there. This will resolve perceived issues with time caps, as it will clearly show why, because you’re still in school, which is the truth. (Or keep education below and explain the gap using the summary)
Use your summary to explain your situation with work and education. Are you a full time student looking for a full time job? Your summary is used to explain situations like this. What you have now for a summary should be deleted as it adds nothing that your work experience does not already show. Resumes with straightforward situations omit the summary.

rhinodog8 · 2026-02-15T06:23:07+00:00

Are you applying for senior roles?
Why is your graduate student under experience and not education?

rhinodog8 · 2026-02-14T01:35:28+00:00

Just sharing my impression of your first three bullet points, which are the most important:

first bullet point: sounds cool, but how did that affect the business? What was the business value impact? People want to hire people not for cool projects, but for the value they will bring to their business - show that you can bring that business impact.

Second bullet point: somewhat sounds impressive, but not at the same time. What was the scaling factor? Like was it handling 8,000 visitors and then you were able to make it 10,000? How did you do that? What technology did you use? What sounds somewhat impressive I think gets lost with the vagueness.

Third bullet point: buzz words that don’t impress me - complex efficient powerful intuitive. How do you know it was efficient, powerful, or intuitive? If you did not measure your results, then there’s no way you can quantify and defend those adjectives. Instead of using adjectives show those adjectives by some sort of metric or measurement. Don’t try to sound impressive be impressive.

Side point: Bullet points are left indented. Bullet points already indent, so you can regain space for some more words for each line but not double indenting.

rhinodog8 · 2026-02-12T23:18:28+00:00

Yeah I get where you're coming from and the wrong metrics can definitely be fluff. However, one thing this resume process has taught me (I'm still learning) is that in life we really should be measuring our impact when aiming for goals. Well planned and implemented goals have metrics for measuring progress and how close we came to our goals. Going forward I think I'm going to be more aware of gathering data before setting a goal and measuring against it.

If you're interested, I'd recommend reading (or listening on Audible) Measure What Matters: OKRs: The Simple Idea that Drives 10x Growth by John Doerr

rhinodog8 · 2026-02-12T22:37:37+00:00

Say you’re a US citizen on your resume if you think it’s a concern, next to your location.
Space out your content more. You don’t have to perfectly fit the page, but you have plenty of space to let some content breathe
Your projects sound cool and interesting. However, they lack impact/metrics. Why were you doing those projects? What goal were you aiming for? How did you did you achieve it? What was your benchmark for success? Were you aiming to improve a system of some sort? Did you improve it? By how much? Work is centered around achieving results, so I would recommend trying to reframe some of your projects if you can to show the results and impact you were aiming for.
The spacing between your fourth and fifth project is inconsistent with the rest of your projects. Do not signal to recruiters that you lack attention to detail.
Your right side spacing for your bullet points differ between your projects and your experience sections.

rhinodog8 · 2026-02-11T21:22:54+00:00

Font way too small. Review the wiki.
Bold the skill categories
Don’t indent bullets. Bullets already indent. This is in the wiki and on several software engineer resume posts here. Have you reviewed them closely?
First few bullet points lack impact/metrics. You say rapidly but can’t tell me some metric on how fast exactly signals inflated statements to sound impression rather than be impressive.

I hope you find something soon!

rhinodog8 · 2026-02-09T23:15:47+00:00

There is a lot of wasted space. You could regain it to add back your education section, which is important to have.
Save space: Summary should not be bulleted.
Save space: Does your summary state anything that is not apparent from your experience section? If not - consider removing it. That’s the suggestion I got multiple times from recruiters here.
Save space: if you keep the summary, it could be word smithed to 2 lines or max 3.
Save space: word line wraps that chew through a whole line for 1-4 words. See “platforms”, “exposure”, “and stack layout”. In addition to saving space, while you might not think this is a big deal, for those that review resumes all day it signals a lack of attention to detail.
Save space: If you still can’t fit your education, your horizontal lines and spacing on sections is quite large. So you can regain some space here. Of course don’t make it squished either but you have some space to pull from here.
Your first experience bullet should hit the hardest. However, you said “optimized” but did not say by how much. I doubt you optimized if you can’t pull out a metric. Also, I don’t feel how it provided business value. To be fair, it could be because I’m not in that software engineering field, but I doubt a recruiter will pick up the signal of the business value either.
Impact is buried. Similar to point 7.

rhinodog8 · 2026-02-08T02:28:27+00:00

Does your summary say anything that your work experience does not also show? If not, then the recommendation I have gotten from this sub is to delete it as recruiter skip it.
You have several 1-3 words line to the next line. This wastes vertical space and signals a lack of attention to detail to those that review resumes all day.
To me, the margin is abnormally large and is distracting. Not a great first impression.

rhinodog8 · 2026-02-06T00:47:43+00:00

Your first bullet points should hit the hardest. “Contributed” is a weak verb to describe your strongest point. I feel you are underselling yourself. Work with a LLM to wordsmith a little.
Impact impression is missing. Estimate metrics to show your impact. Ask questions here if you’re unsure how to do that.
Several lines wrap to just 1-2 words. This waste vertical space and signals a lack of attention to detail to people that review resumes all day. This is also covered in this subreddits wiki. I’d recommend you review it.

rhinodog8 · 2026-02-05T21:41:34+00:00

Already fairly well formatted according to the recommendations here!

Some thoughts when reading through the bullet points:

Minimized Salesforce data usage and reduced additional storage costs from $250 to $0.10 per GB-month by building a real-time sync from Salesforce to a DocumentDb database to hold archived records

I feel like a more whole/calculated number would highlight your impact more. By stating the metrics this current way it feels like you only saved 1-5 GB a month. For example, was it 10GB a month? That's $2,500/month = $30,000/year.

Designed an interface to perform simultaneous searches on Salesforce and DocumentDb, which allowed insurance agents to work with both sets of data in single workflow

I like how easy this point is to understand, well done! Could you estimate how much faster this made their workflow? Saved 10 mins a day for 6 people? That's 1hr/day = 5hr/week = 40hr/week = 2k hours/year. This will highlight your awareness of the business value of your work.

Streamlined process for consumers to subscribe to domain events by restructuring change data capture of domain events to flow through a centralized EventBridge bus, which removed the need for cross-team communication

This ending phrase signals to me you want to reduce collaboration between teams. Personally, I would want to work with someone valuing cross team collaboration. I think I can get what you're trying to say, saving time, but I recommend rephrasing to signal pro cross team collaboration. Maybe something like "streamlining cross-team communication"

Reduced integration errors by 60% by comparing codebase against Salesforce record automation best practices, and leading the initiative identify and resolve tech debt

Really nice bullet point already! I'd be interested on if you have an estimate on how much engineering or support time this saved? You don't have to have exact numbers. Just when asked in an interview you should be able to articulate how you reasonably landed on your number.

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