Android bandwagon attracting developers and advertisers

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Sweet, we received a mention.

If you have any Android questions feel free to post them here or email me : aschobel [at] snaptic. com

Hi, could you tell us more about the employees at the company?

How many Android developers do you employ? What are their usual background? And how much do they get paid?

I don't think employee compensation is something publicly disclosed, usually, and the question might be perceived as probing at best, or offensive at worst; unless you're a potential investor or acquirer, in which case there are better avenues to conduct your due diligence prep work ;-)

Sure, we have one dedicated Android dev with a background in J2ME and embedded device drivers.

On a platform like Android were memory / GC can kill you you need to make sure the lead fully understands the constraints.

Our iPhone dev rocks at SQLite3 so he helps with those portions of our Android apps.

We have commits from almost every member of the engineer staff to our Android apps, we are small enough were this still can work.

Re: Paid, I would feel uncomfortable sharing that information. When we looked at contracting some of this out on the iPhone side we were seeing consulting rates in the $150 / hour range for Bay Area contractors.

Thanks and I understand your discomfort in sharing the pay. I am thinking of applying for some Android positions which made me question the monetary compensations. Thanks again.

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