[NSCoder] April 2020 Recap

[Jacob]

Thanks to all that joined us on the Internet to talk about computers. Special thanks to Kevin for providing us a Zoom Meeting to use.

Show and Tell

Me (Jacob Van Order) talked about Charles Proxy and, in particular the map local feature.

Sean Wolter gave tips about interviewing and being interviewed. He wanted me to include the following links:

Unconscious Bias @ Work

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLjFTHTgEVU

Code Challenge prep:

https://leetcode.com
https://exercism.io
https://www.hackerrank.com/interview/interview-preparation-kit

Kevin Donnelly spoke about writing a GameBoy emulator in Swift and all that entails. Here's the code: https://github.com/donnellyk/emu and a good YouTube Video explaining how the hardware works: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HyzD8pNlpwI

Miscellaneous

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Job Board

Property Management Startup is looking for a mid-level and up iOS Developer to work downtown and they do allow for remote work. According to the recruiter: “Awesome opportunity to join a startup of 22 engineers and growing. Giving a developer the chance to lead out a team and be hands on with development. This is a full-time opportunity and is located downtown and they offer a ton of work flexibility!”. Interested? email Matthew dot sears at jobspringpartners dot com

A mysterious company is looking for both iOS and Android Developer Roles at mid-level. This is in Pittsburg, PA and they do not allow for remote work. The job entails work around: "Full Stack Mobile Device Development and understanding of algorithms. iOS sdk, iOS life cycle, Objective-C or Swift, APIs, CocoaPods, RESTful back-end services". Learn more here: https://www.modis.com/en-us/job-seekers/job/pittsburgh/ios-software-engineer-2/US_EN_6_916356_1334111/?keyword=iOS%20Software%20Engineer,%202 Reach out to Mike Dabbs at mike.dabbs at modis dot com or 714-402-7417. According to Mike, “The client has a great culture and excellent benefits with a meaningful family collaboration/safety product(IoT)”.

The country's largest lending-exclusive financial company is looking for a lead iOS Developer in Chicago, IL and they do allow for remote work. Reach out to Sarah about a job that features an app that “is a simple CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Delete) app right now, but there’s lots of opportunity. There’s opportunity to build out new features and help build out a farm system where this person can help engineers grow within the org. They are bumping up the deployment target to iOS 13 this week and the app is written entirely in Swift, so they are conscious of staying current with their tech stack, opening the door to leverage the latest APIs!”. Email? Sarah dot sakalys at modis dot com

Xsell Resources on behalf of fortune 5 client is looking for a mid-level is iOS Developer based in Northbrook. They do not allow for remote work. Beware, this is contract to hire but go ahead and reach out to Michelle Dorrell at 610-491-6502 or Michelle at xsellresources dot com.

 

Another mysterious company is looking for a Senior level iOS Engineer knowledgable about iOS, swift, cocoa touch, push notifications. This is a few blocks from Millennium Park and they do allow for remote work but it is a long-term contract. Reach out to Thomas at Thomas dot lovell-butt at gcsrecruitment dot com.

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Reminders

CocoaHeads is May 12th at 7pm. Stay tuned to this channel for more information when and who is speaking.