The iOS Engineer Playbook
Get hired as an iOS engineer
The iOS Engineer Playbook
Get found. Get hired and leveled correctly.
Most iOS engineers prepare for the technical interview and stop there. That is a mistake.
Long before the interview, a company is already evaluating your resume, your LinkedIn, your GitHub and your reputation. Long after it, you still have to negotiate, choose between offers and survive the first 90 days.
The iOS Engineer Playbook covers the whole arc, end to end: getting found, preparing for the loop, answering with seniority, negotiating from evidence and starting the role with a plan.
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What this book helps with
Everything between the app and the system around it.
Most engineers do not lose iOS jobs because they lack talent.
They lose them because nobody showed them how hiring actually works.
Why this book exists
Across 15+ years I have worn nearly every hat on an iOS team, including the tech lead and interviewer on the other side of the table.
Most people do not lose iOS jobs because they lack talent. They lose them because nobody ever showed them how the hiring system actually works.
This book hands you the whole map: how to get found, how to be evaluated, and how to turn an offer into the right offer.
What is inside
From where you are to the next level.
Getting found
Hiring market · Resume · LinkedIn · GitHub · Referrals
Preparing for interviews
How teams think · Leveling · Answering · Psychology
Technical interviews
Swift · SwiftUI · Architecture · Concurrency · Live coding · System design
Behavioral and leadership
Behavioral · Stakeholders · Conflict · Mentoring
Offers and growth
Negotiation · Evaluating companies · First 90 days
The framework
Get found, get evaluated, get the right offer
- Found
- Evaluated
- Offer
- Growth
Hiring is a funnel, and most qualified engineers leak at the top by being invisible. Spend effort proportional to conversion, not comfort.
Product proof
What you can inspect before buying.
Each book page shows the method, the scope, and the kind of transformation the material is designed to create. Real reader testimonials are only shown when genuine quotes are available.
Sample pages
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Before / after
Concrete examples show how weak signals become senior-level answers.
The iOS Engineer Playbook
Get hired as an iOS engineer
Sample chapter
Read the first pages inside the site.
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The roadmap
Where this fits
- 01Get Found
- 02BuildYou are here
- 03Interview
- 04Answer Practice
- 05System Design
- 06Staff Systems
- 07Build With AI
- 08Lead
- 09Architect
Before / After
Resume bullet
Before
iOS Developer, Acme
Worked on the company's iOS app. Responsible for bug fixes and new features.
After
iOS Engineer, Acme
Shipped a SwiftUI redesign of the home feed, lifting App Store rating from 4.1 to 4.6.
Cut crash rate 22 percent by replacing a fragile callback networking layer with async/await.
Who this is for
- Junior Engineer
- Mid-Level Engineer
- Senior Engineer
- Staff Engineer
- Tech Lead
Not for
- Want only a Swift interview question bank
- Already get strong inbound and convert offers easily
- Are not job searching in any form
About me
Mike Salari
Staff Mobile Engineer · Mobile Architect · Technical Author
I wrote this from both sides of the table, as an engineer who has shipped production iOS at scale and as an interviewer who has helped hire engineers at every level. It is the end-to-end hiring playbook I wish someone had handed me.
- 15+ years
- Building production mobile software
- Production scale
- High-trust consumer and enterprise mobile systems
- Mentor
- Engineers helped through interviews, growth and senior-level decisions
- Ex-Cisco & Mastercard
- Plus experience across Apple, Adobe and Visa
Published author of The iOS Interview Blueprint.
Read the full storyPrepare for the process, not just the interview.
Most engineers prepare for the interview. The strongest prepare for the entire hiring journey. For deeper technical-interview drilling, pair this with The iOS Interview Blueprint.
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