Are Server or Android Engineers Valued More?
Jan 28, 2019
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Switching teams and have to decide if I want to join a team as an Android engineer or as a backend engineer. I have been working full stack, but the teams I'm interested in don't need a full stack person. I want to specialize in the area that will be a better choice for my long term career.
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Server skills are valued too.
But, iOS or Android skills are transferrable inter companies. Server on the other hand, every company uses it's own framework. Amazon backend skills are almost useless at Google and vice versa. Scaling, metrics everything is different. All you need to know is some basic concepts - rpc, stubs, p99 etc
Pick what you like.
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One of the problems I had with web clients is the volatility of JS frameworks. Angular was the cool thing a few years ago until React came along. Kind of the same with mobile, I imagine... with React Native coming into the picture. Iβm concerned that the volatility negatively impacts the perception for the need of having expertise there, which could impact comp. Client experience seems to transfer best though, and almost every tech company has a need for that.
AI/ML seems to be the great thing to work on and get paid well these days though, not just regular generic backend work.