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I am Mike Salari, Staff Mobile Engineer and Tech Lead. Over 15+ years I have built mobile products across fintech, crypto, and enterprise, and interviewed hundreds of engineers, junior developers to engineering managers, from the hiring side of the table.

That side of the table taught me one thing: engineering careers rarely stall on skill. They stall on judgment that nobody sees, decisions that never make it onto paper, and interview answers that show memory instead of thinking. Those are fixable, and fixing them is what this newsletter does.

The deal: one specific career fix for mobile engineers, every Tuesday, under 5 minutes. iOS, Android, and cross-platform. Interviews, visibility, system design judgment, and the path past senior. No hype, no recycled listicles, no 10x engineer nonsense.

Start here, based on what is pressing:

If you have not yet, take the Developer Career Bottleneck Checklist, ten minutes, it tells you which of five areas is actually holding you back: salari.dev/resources

If interviews are close, read the post below on the confident wrong answer, it is the single highest-value adjustment most candidates can make.

If recruiters are quiet, run the free CV scan: salari.dev/scan

You will only hear from me on Tuesdays. If a brief ever misses the mark, reply and tell me, I read every response.

Mike