On 03/08/2012 08:43 AM, Chris Stratton wrote:
On Thursday, March 8, 2012 10:36:37 AM UTC-5, Veronica wrote:
I am working on hiring developers who have experience in Android
development. I'm finding it a challenge. I understand that's a
relatively new technology so the employee pool is still growing.
Unless you are in a situation where in addition to project time frames
being extremely short, the period of product lifetime during which code
must be maintained, supported, and potentially improved is also quite
short, then it really makes sense to search for those with software
engineering skills, rather than than focus on the specific target
technology. It's true that every platform and language has its quirks and
thus learning curve, but its also true that most of the architectural and
implementation mistakes which create schedule and reliability nightmares
are "old" ones which have been made many times before in many preceding
technologies.
Reminds me of the days in the mid-90s where companies were asking for 5
years of Java programming experience when Java had only been around 3
years. :D
Anyone who is skilled in Java and C/C++ won't find the Android framework
much of a problem. The more years of experience developing software the
better. I also see job reqs listing things like REST, JASON or even PHP
all of which doesn't take much time for a seasoned engineer to come up
to speed on.
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