[thelogos]

I'm curious how much experience the author had at the time of hiring.

While I'm not familiar with the hiring requirements for web dev, in the iOS development world in particular, it's quite easy to learn how to build basic apps with storyboard. But to master Core Foundation, GCD, Core Data, Core Animation, building good API, laying out UI in code, that takes a tremendous amount of time. And what I've heard from dev who've been through interviews, employers are very demanding. One person in particular was asked to build an app from scratch in one day without using ARC.

[lackoftactics]

I am the author. At the time of hiring I built few simple apps but my knowledge was really limited. Of course I didn't knew that :)

This knowledge gaps had to be filled: - ActiveRecord is not replacement for SQL, it's just abstraction. Try writing complex query in rails, good luck. - You can't learn practices for maintaining code if your app is 200 LOC. - Reading someone else code is different than reading yours.

You get real experience by building apps for clients.