Still, how do you get hired as a lead mobile dev without having and native platform skills?<p>The entire development world has gone tits-up in the last 10 years. It&#x27;s all about nonsense package management for JavaScript libraries (why can&#x27;t I just include a .js off a cdn? npm? What the actual fuck?), and an endless stream of disparate components which are often ill-supported, or just plain ditched after they&#x27;ve had their ten seconds in the limelight.<p>I guess I&#x27;m lucky in that my degree taught me how to make a cut down ARM CPU from scratch, write the assembly to test it, write a simple compiler to compile a minimal C to ARM asm, etc.<p>THAT IS FULL STACK!<p>&quot;Full stack engineer&quot; is laughable sometimes these days.<p>Performance problem? Ok... Know what a profiled binary is? dtrace? vmstat? No? Post on stack overflow or just spin up more cloud instances? Yup!<p>&lt;&#x2F;rant&gt;