Timeline for Contacted company asking if there's an iOS software engineering role, and they responded saying QA would be a perfect fit. How can I navigate this?
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| S Nov 5, 2022 at 2:08 | vote | accept | Curious | ||
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| Feb 1, 2022 at 15:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackWorkplace/status/1488527573940383750 | ||
| Jan 29, 2022 at 15:44 | answer | added | JosephH | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jan 27, 2022 at 21:48 | comment | added | Yakk | There is engineer-in-test, which is someone who writes software to ensure quality of the product. An engineer-in-test for an iOS product will be doing some iOS programming. An engineer-in-test is "in QA", but doesn't "do QA", in that they are writing code to test the app, not testing the app. Much like someone writing dental scheduling software isn't a receptionist. | |
| Jan 27, 2022 at 2:13 | comment | added | Technophile | There's your agenda, and their agenda. Their agenda is to hire a QA person. Maybe try again later, when they are interested in hiring an iOS software engineer. Presumably you have the skills? | |
| Jan 26, 2022 at 19:07 | comment | added | psmears | @lucidbrot: I'm sure there are - and they lose out too, since if they want their career to progress they have to move out of QA and into development :-/ | |
| Jan 26, 2022 at 18:45 | comment | added | lucidbrot | @psmears are there no good QA people that enjoy doing QA then? :P (regarding your parenthetical remark) | |
| Jan 25, 2022 at 22:20 | comment | added | psmears | @BittermanAndy: That's true, but that's not how all places work: I've seen organisations where the best QA employees do get moved into development. (Naturally, their QA teams had a tendency to suck, since all the good people kept leaving...) | |
| Jan 25, 2022 at 22:12 | comment | added | Curious | @PaulD.Waite Yes though perhaps not senior level experience since I've seen a senior iOS position from them in the past and it wasn't mentioned. | |
| Jan 25, 2022 at 15:45 | answer | added | Frax | timeline score: 8 | |
| Jan 25, 2022 at 12:24 | comment | added | Paul D. Waite | "I want to continue to do iOS software engineering in the medium term" — do you have experience in iOS software engineering now? | |
| Jan 25, 2022 at 11:06 | answer | added | Tom | timeline score: 22 | |
| Jan 25, 2022 at 9:30 | answer | added | knallfrosch | timeline score: 13 | |
| Jan 25, 2022 at 9:11 | comment | added | BittermanAndy | Something to consider re your last sentence: if you demonstrate excellent performance in QA, that's a reason to keep you in QA, not move you into engineering. | |
| Jan 25, 2022 at 8:41 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Jan 25, 2022 at 8:19 | answer | added | End Antisemitic Hate | timeline score: 4 | |
| Jan 25, 2022 at 3:45 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Jan 24, 2022 at 19:57 | answer | added | Joe Strazzere | timeline score: 138 | |
| Jan 24, 2022 at 19:51 | answer | added | gnasher729 | timeline score: 49 | |
| Jan 24, 2022 at 19:43 | history | asked | Curious | CC BY-SA 4.0 |