Growing As a Mobile Engineer

by Gergely Orosz

How can you keep growing as a mobile engineer, to the senior and above levels? How can you break the mobile engineering “glass ceiling” that exists in many places?

This book collects 30 pieces of advice on how to level up as a mobile engineer. The book offers additional advice to engineering managers, and covers several mobile-related learnings during the author’s tenure at Uber.

Genres: Software, Technical

71 pages, ebook

Published April 7, 2021

About the author

I write The Pragmatic Engineer, the # technology newsletter on Substack. Author of The Software Engineer's Guidebook and other titles. Formerly at Uber, Skype / Microsoft and Skyscanner.

Reviews

[Andrei Catinean · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great resource for software engineers and engineering managers alike. I enjoyed the clear pieces of advice on how to demonstrate impact beyond the "senior engineer" role, as well as how as a manager I can best support my engineers in their career development.

[Cuong Tran · Rating 4 out of 5]

short, but solid collections of topics & advice

[Olha · Rating 5 out of 5]

This year I read the other book of the author - "mobile apps at scale".
After that I found the company with the nice iOS app at scale. It has "a healthy engineering culture", "the best tools money can buy" etc. I don't think that was because of the book, but the book put me closer to such reality.
This book concentrates on the career strategies instead of the technologies. It helps to connect the existing parts of a bigger mental model in my head.

[Dusan Katona · Rating 5 out of 5]

If you manage mobile engineers or mobile teams, this is a must read! A lot of advice on what the role of senior+ engineer at Big Tech entails. I had a fruitful discussion with mobile engineering leaders at the company I currently work for, just based on the points from this book.

[M! Arroyo · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book has solid advice from a person with a strong background in both the IC and the Management tracks. It's beneficial for those trying to demonstrate that they are operating above the "Senior" level and the options they have to continue growing up if their current company doesn't have a robust promotion process.

I would recommend this book to any mobile developer, independently of whether they are doing native or multiplatform, because mobile engineering is still software engineering.

[Martin · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great book for mobile engineers! A good build up / continuation for the ‘Mobile Apps at Scale Book’, but this time focused on the individual engineers rather than technology. As a mobile engineer for a decade, I can really relate to all the challenges described in the book in terms of growth in this role. It is also a good to see a picture of how these large mobile-focus companies such as Uber do mobile engineering.

[Darius Sabaliauskas · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book has really good tips and references about diferent career tracks and ladders and how to grow as engineer with ephasis on mobile. Moreover providing good overview what senior+ level means in big tech company context.

It also gives advices for managers how to grow those engineers.

[Masood · Rating 5 out of 5]

Overall a great book. One that can truly help to grow as a mobile (and software) engineer. I especially liked the very last part of the book where it was all about Uber. That means getting insights into how engineering is done at a tech giant company.

[Dmitry · Rating 5 out of 5]

Mobile Engineer is a Software Engineer. Thanks to the author!

[Cafer Mert Ceyhan · Rating 4 out of 5]

A book I would recommend to all mobile developers. It’s short and easy to read, also there is a lot of great external resources like blogs and presentations that he mentioned.

[Bertalan · Rating 5 out of 5]

$20 is a bit steep considering how short the book is, but the advice is golden, 10/10 recommended

[Gutenberg Neto · Rating 4 out of 5]

Quick, but useful read for mobile engineers.