Folks with 10+ years association ( in Programmer or Leadership capacity ) with Front-End engineering, possibly Mobile Apps, and specifically Android, may provide their valuable insights ! Others, please refrain from commenting !!
Somewhat beginning to regret “Specialization” with Native Android for the past 13 years. Unemployed since Nov 01, 2023, sent-out thousands of applications in all capacities – full-time, contractor / consulting, remote, hybrid etc. Barely any interviews. Rather, learning the hard-way now that I used to survive on the “numbers-game” !!
Not that I had ever been that mythical “10X expert-level”, but my contributions to enterprise code wherever and whenever I got to work were decently acceptable ! Just a good, reliable, dependable Engineer, like most other good engineers you already know !!
Indeed there were occassional down-times, frantically seeking employment and such, nevertheless, did not ever had to “consciously” switch-away from native Android development skills. Or perhaps, Native Android skills did not let me switch tech-stacks by allowing me to get hired whenever I more-or-less needed to.
Obviously, I did not work at the same place for the past decade, and every place I did get to work at, I wasn’t coasting, and most certainly and definitively contributing pretty well, nevertheless, wouldn’t particularly want to work with the team and org again due to glaring work-culture differences !!
Bottom line, it appears no one is hiring ( at my level ) ?, and beginning to feel like I “pigeon-holed” myself ?
Gladly open to recommendations with open arms, aside from of course, self-learning, getting-good at Jetpack Compose and Kotlin Multi-platform during free-time and personal-time, like everyone else because when the time comes those who aren’t ready will fall-behind again, yada, yada, yada – not a single job application among a thousand ( I suppose ) and a handful of interviews of the course of the recent past 13 months never focused a bit on Jetpack Compose, State-Hoisting, Side-Effects, recomposition issues etc, let alone any focus on Hybrid with Kotlin Multiplatform, so yeah, the Industry hasn’t necessarily begun asking for it as yet so it’s totally OK to take-it-slow !!
What I’d like to do ? Middle-aged, shooting 40+ already, a second interview back-to-back after an hour-long first-interview is already mentally draining and exhausting ! So, obviously, would prefer to stay a level-up from a typical “Code-Monkey” at a more “Supervisor” role, more over-seeing, guidance-and-direction etc ?!
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r/cscareerquestions Folks with 10+ years association ( in Programmer or Leadership capacity ) with Front-End engineering, possibly Mobile Apps, and specifically Android, may provide their valuable insights ! Others, please refrain from commenting !! Somewhat beginning to regret “Specialization” with Native Android for the past 13 years. Unemployed since Nov 01, 2023, sent-out thousands of applications in all capacities – full-time, contractor / consulting, remote, hybrid etc. Barely any interviews. Rather, learning the hard-way now that I used to survive on the “numbers-game” !! Not that I had ever been that mythical “10X expert-level”, but my contributions to enterprise code wherever and whenever I got to work were decently acceptable ! Just a good, reliable, dependable Engineer, like most other good engineers you already know !! Indeed there were occassional down-times, frantically seeking employment and such, nevertheless, did not ever had to “consciously” switch-away from native Android development skills. Or perhaps, Native Android skills did not let me switch tech-stacks by allowing me to get hired whenever I more-or-less needed to. Obviously, I did not work at the same place for the past decade, and every place I did get to work at, I wasn’t coasting, and most certainly and definitively contributing pretty well, nevertheless, wouldn’t particularly want to work with the team and org again due to glaring work-culture differences !! Bottom line, it appears no one is hiring ( at my level ) ?, and beginning to feel like I “pigeon-holed” myself ? Gladly open to recommendations with open arms, aside from of course, self-learning, getting-good at Jetpack Compose and Kotlin Multi-platform during free-time and personal-time, like everyone else because when the time comes those who aren’t ready will fall-behind again, yada, yada, yada – not a single job application among a thousand ( I suppose ) and a handful of interviews of the course of the recent past 13 months never focused a bit on Jetpack Compose, State-Hoisting, Side-Effects, recomposition issues etc, let alone any focus on Hybrid with Kotlin Multiplatform, so yeah, the Industry hasn’t necessarily begun asking for it as yet so it’s totally OK to take-it-slow !! What I’d like to do ? Middle-aged, shooting 40+ already, a second interview back-to-back after an hour-long first-interview is already mentally draining and exhausting ! So, obviously, would prefer to stay a level-up from a typical “Code-Monkey” at a more “Supervisor” role, more over-seeing, guidance-and-direction etc ?! submitted by /u/SweetStrawberry4U [link] [comments]
Folks with 10+ years association ( in Programmer or Leadership capacity ) with Front-End engineering, possibly Mobile Apps, and specifically Android, may provide their valuable insights ! Others, please refrain from commenting !!
Somewhat beginning to regret “Specialization” with Native Android for the past 13 years. Unemployed since Nov 01, 2023, sent-out thousands of applications in all capacities – full-time, contractor / consulting, remote, hybrid etc. Barely any interviews. Rather, learning the hard-way now that I used to survive on the “numbers-game” !!
Not that I had ever been that mythical “10X expert-level”, but my contributions to enterprise code wherever and whenever I got to work were decently acceptable ! Just a good, reliable, dependable Engineer, like most other good engineers you already know !!
Indeed there were occassional down-times, frantically seeking employment and such, nevertheless, did not ever had to “consciously” switch-away from native Android development skills. Or perhaps, Native Android skills did not let me switch tech-stacks by allowing me to get hired whenever I more-or-less needed to.
Obviously, I did not work at the same place for the past decade, and every place I did get to work at, I wasn’t coasting, and most certainly and definitively contributing pretty well, nevertheless, wouldn’t particularly want to work with the team and org again due to glaring work-culture differences !!
Bottom line, it appears no one is hiring ( at my level ) ?, and beginning to feel like I “pigeon-holed” myself ?
Gladly open to recommendations with open arms, aside from of course, self-learning, getting-good at Jetpack Compose and Kotlin Multi-platform during free-time and personal-time, like everyone else because when the time comes those who aren’t ready will fall-behind again, yada, yada, yada – not a single job application among a thousand ( I suppose ) and a handful of interviews of the course of the recent past 13 months never focused a bit on Jetpack Compose, State-Hoisting, Side-Effects, recomposition issues etc, let alone any focus on Hybrid with Kotlin Multiplatform, so yeah, the Industry hasn’t necessarily begun asking for it as yet so it’s totally OK to take-it-slow !!
What I’d like to do ? Middle-aged, shooting 40+ already, a second interview back-to-back after an hour-long first-interview is already mentally draining and exhausting ! So, obviously, would prefer to stay a level-up from a typical “Code-Monkey” at a more “Supervisor” role, more over-seeing, guidance-and-direction etc ?!
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