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The Silent Rejection: The Hiring Decision That Filters You Happens Before Anyone Reads Your Code. Here Is How It Works, and How to Win It

The Silent Rejection: The Hiring Decision That Filters You Happens Before Anyone Reads Your Code. Here Is How It Works, and How to Win It

Why good engineers get rejected before anyone evaluates their skills, and how to fix the résumé, LinkedIn, visibility signals costing them interviews

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Sep 14

A 14-day prep plan for a senior iOS or Android interview

After conducting hundreds of technical interviews across mobile engineering roles, I have learned that many senior candidates do not fail…

A 14-day prep plan for a senior iOS or Android interview

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Sep 15

Senior iOS Live Coding Interview Questions: What to Expect and How to Prepare in 2026

Five realistic interview problems, what they are actually testing, and how I would prepare for them today

Senior iOS Live Coding Interview Questions: What to Expect and How to Prepare in 2026

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Sep 21

My Wife Knew I Didn’t Need 20 Minutes in the Bathroom. So Did I.

I build mobile software for a living. My wife still noticed the problem before I did.

My Wife Knew I Didn’t Need 20 Minutes in the Bathroom. So Did I.

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Sep 25

Senior iOS interview questions: the 5 follow-ups that decide the loop

I’ve run 500+ technical interviews. Your first answer rarely decides the outcome. The next question does.

Senior iOS interview questions: the 5 follow-ups that decide the loop

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Sep 2

35 people I know lost their tech jobs.

AI was part of the reason. The layoff wasn’t the worst part.The worst part is finding out the market moved while you were still employed.

35 people I know lost their tech jobs.

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1d ago

You have 40 interview tabs open and still don’t know what to study.

Interview preparation gets worse when everything looks important. The closer the interview gets, the more your calendar should force you to…

You have 40 interview tabs open and still don’t know what to study.

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1d ago

10 Senior iOS interview questions that reveal how You actually Think

What 500+ technical interviews taught me about the difference between knowing Swift and thinking like a senior engineer.

10 Senior iOS interview questions that reveal how You actually Think

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3d ago

React Native interviews happen at the boundary

Senior React Native interview questions and answers: JSI, Fabric, TurboModules, Hermes, lists, OTA releases, and the follow-ups that decide…

React Native interviews happen at the boundary

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5d ago

I interviewed 13 Senior software developers. 12 used AI. Only one admitted It.

What a week of technical interviews revealed about the difference between having an answer and understanding it.

I interviewed 13 Senior software developers. 12 used AI. Only one admitted It.

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Nov 5

Why iOS apps feel slow even when the API is fast

iOS performance from the hiring side: main-thread hangs, image downsampling, SwiftUI invalidation, how to measure with Instruments and…

Why iOS apps feel slow even when the API is fast

Mike Salari

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Staff mobile engineer · 500+ technical interviews from the hiring side. Uncomfortable notes about engineering careers, hiring and AI.

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