[quote=an][quote=deadzone]I appreciate your unique journey/story. But was mainly curious what background you expect when you hire for those “mobile” positions. But relating to your story, yes not only is Ivy league obviously way overkill for a job in technology, I would argue UCSD degree is overkill too. Or an Engineering degree at all. I mean Engineering degree is a good filter to ensure a candidate has a proven analytical and problem solving skills. But certainly little you learn in College is directly related to developing mobile apps.[/quote]
Of course. When I went to college, there’s no such thing as Android, iOS, Kotlin, Swift, etc. But I did learn object oriented design, how to think and solve problems, how to make things work and how to prioritize implementations in order to have a fully working feature at the other end.[/quote]

1. Take one object oriented programming class. See if you like it or hate it.

2. If you hate it, the another object oriented programming class and see if you like it or hate it.

If you still like it and it’s easy to understand, then you have everything you need to get into this field.

3. Specifically for mobile. Good mobile engineers know how to detail with async programming and the rest is just practice after practice.