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Randell Purington
Randell Purington
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Posted by Randell Purington
Randell Purington
9,992 Points

How hard is it to find an iOS job after completing the TechDegree program?

I am curious if there is anyone on here available who has completed the TD for iOS dev to leave a comment.

I see a few jobs in my area (Jacksonville Fla) that have job openings but some ask for a B.S/B.A in CS and others say 6 years or 3 years or x amount of years plus know other languages. Of course I never worked in programming so I am unclear on how it all works when getting a job in the field.

Has anyone completed the TD and was able to get a job(that pays) in iOS?

Also is iOS great way to go? I see tons of Javascript, Front End, React, etc and I am wondering if maybe that would be the way to go.

2 Answers

stjarnan
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stjarnan
Front End Web Development Techdegree Graduate 56,488 Points
stjarnan
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stjarnan
Front End Web Development Techdegree Graduate 56,488 Points

Hi Randell,

While I can't speak for your area, and don't have much knowledge of the iOS Techdegree, I still believe I can give you some information.

Where I live every single company out there asks for super advanced degrees, for everything! I applied to a job with that criteria and got hired even without it after finishing the FEWD Techdegree. They are using the ads to tell you how their perfect candidate might look, you won't need everything they ask for.

iOS is a great way to go, as will all the other routes be. What matters is what you enjoy the most, because you will end up working with it in the end right? So don't pick something you don't like, go for whatever you enjoy doing the most instead and you'll be just fine.

I hope that helps, if you have any questions feel free to tag me :)

Jonas

Randell Purington
Randell Purington
9,992 Points
Randell Purington
Randell Purington
9,992 Points

Thank you for the response. Yes that helps me because I left a University where I was working on a BS for mobile dev and I didn't like the set up, they wasn't providing any information to really help me grasp anything I was learning in that course so by the time the next course came around I couldn't go back and research the previous course that I complete because that would put me behind. I didn't learn really anything so I couldn't see me paying over $50k to not know half of what I studied.

So I made the choice to come over to Treehouse, pay $25 a month, get things down and I can go back to the very beginning if I wanted to and restart all of it if I am not comprehending it all the first time. But when I did more research on jobs I started seeing "x amount of years experience, BS or BA degrees in CS"

Now I feel better knowing I still have a decent shot at landing a job after Treehouse.

stjarnan
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stjarnan
Front End Web Development Techdegree Graduate 56,488 Points
stjarnan
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stjarnan
Front End Web Development Techdegree Graduate 56,488 Points

Yes you really do have a good shot. Your mindset is going to be something that will help you, the fact that you want to grasp the subjects is great. If you take the time to learn what they teach you in the courses and try to apply it to your own projects you will not have a hard time finding a company that wants to hire you in the end. :)

So yes, don't you worry about that degree requirement!

Randell Purington
Randell Purington
9,992 Points
Randell Purington
Randell Purington
9,992 Points

Thank you. I have been doing the iOS and it is hard, but I can see more and more stuff becoming easier. Like I will have the code written out almost correct but there will be syntax errors or I didn't put the right line in the right place. But it has been a week and I went from 0 code experience really to now being able to follow along and feel like I know a little more each video. I do think I will have fun with this because it doesn't feel like "School"(that's what I call it) and it doesn't feel like work, it feels like a game and each level is a new adventure that I have to figure out and master before I can move on to the next level.