[quote=deadzone]I’m curious what specific background and training is required to be a “mobile engineer”? I suspect big part of the challenge of recruiting is that truly qualified folks have to have significant industry experience and there is a limited pool of those folks forcing you to poach.
Is an Engineering degree really needed for most of this work? Engineering school is very math intensive, I highly doubt that solving differential equations has any relevance on the development of mobile apps for an iphone. Do you only look at folks with certain college degrees or is that not even a pre-requisite?[/quote]
sorry, trade secret. Well theres people who take classes ar those DeVry or FullSailUniversity that pretend to be able to mobile engineer, and then theres people who know javascript and angular or react native that might pass as a mobile engineer at some companies that arent trying to do native apps, and then theres the rest of us that went to a prestigious ivy league school, got a 4.2gpa in a very difficult engineering major like electrical engineering, and majored in a very difficult specialization like DSP and communication systems, information theory….and then was hired by qualcomm after a days worth of grueling technical interviews….and started a job…by pulling cables out of telco equipment to test fault tolerance…and told to get a masters and wait 2 more years before writing software…
…but then, basically gave the middle finger to the employer that was standing in your way of what you wanted to really do, took 2 software engineering classes at UCSD extension, motivated yourself to self teach yourself through countless reading, coding, hands on examples of prototypes, and often free work for your friends who needed help, or volunteer to do hackathon projects at work beyond your regular assigned work…and then through a little motivation, easily found someone to hire you because you demonstrated a lot more motivation than the average US worker that sits in their ass and lets their skills waste away. Had i known that, i would have skipped the fancy ivy league school, kept the $100k money my parents spent, go to a great school like UCSD or CalPoly San Luis Obpisbo , got the same if not better education for 1/4 the cost with a merit based scholarship, and come out with the same outcome …of making more money from stock market and real estate….so that it allows me to do what i enjoy doing…software and fixing cars…..
.. in other words, i have no career advice for you…because im pretty fucked up…
