Uncover the invisible ceiling
summary
Claim: mobile engineering faces an invisible ceiling because peers assume apps are simpler. Evidence: modern mobile stacks (iPhone Android) only matured since 2007, apps reach 4 million lines of code, run in ~200 MB per process with hundreds of local SQL tables, and CI unit tests take 90 minute runs until a build cache on AWS S3 cuts time at cost of ~400 GB/day transfer. Concrete tools and numbers show real scale, tradeoffs, and where resourcing decisions actually succeed or fail.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Welcome
- 2:53Invisible ceiling for mobile engineers
- 9:18Tech community misconceptions
- 13:15Web vs mobile engineering timeline
- 16:49Why mobile careers plateau
- 17:12Modern mobile app complexity
- 21:50Mobile engineers isolation
- 24:20Overcoming bias in decisions
- 25:02Call to action for inclusive leadership
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