daspianist

For background, I have been in the iOS space for nearly 10 years, am self-taught, and have solo-built two App Store "App of the Day" apps.

However, despite these the App Store validations, I often find myself unable to convincingly answer system design questions, or coding questions designed for someone at my level in interviews.

I would really like to get better at my craft, and collab. with respected engineering leaders. However, it seems that these experiences are nearly exclusive to work settings.

Without being able to get my foot in, I can't gain the mentoring experience and can only do learn from non-interactive resources like YT videos or books and make incremental improvements. I have found this both limiting and frustrating.

Modern software engineering is very much a classic apprenticeship set up, and I would love to find mentors. How do I do this?