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Me, an ordinary person. Graduated from an ordinary undergraduate course, came to Beijing to become an ordinary programmer.

In 2013, I graduated from college and set foot on my journey to the North.

I thought very clearly before I came here. Beijing is technologically advanced. I can work here for three or four years, learn and grow my skills, and then go back to a second or third tier city and find a company to work as a small manager or something, which should be ok.

However, it will be five years now. Considering the employment opportunities and salary and welfare benefits in my hometown, I still have no courage to go back.

Time is fast a little let a person feel out of breath, looking back on their work experience in these years, that is really a failure.

When it comes to failure, I don’t even know where to start. Let’s start with finding a job after graduation.

one

Just graduated to Beijing, the poor accommodation conditions needless to say. Every day I run around with my resume. Come to think of it now, that was really young and not afraid of tired, now let me meet two companies a day, I feel very tired.

I still remember one day interviewing two companies. In the morning is the interview jiuqi software, in Beijing’s south fourth and fifth ring. The afternoon is an interview with Yonyou software in Zhongguancun Software Park.

As a result of chatting with the interviewer for a long time, as soon as the interview was over, he ran to the subway station. Because feel at that time, yonyou software is still a big company, famous brand company, try not to miss the opportunity.

Out of the zhongguancun Software Park near the subway station, according to my poor habit, can run, do not take the bus, there was no shared bike. But a look at the time is quite pressing, so hit a motorcycle.

Up to now, I do not know zhongguancun software park has a few, how to divide. I’m not even sure if that software park is where Yonyou is.

But had to take out my smart phone to keep, while navigation side walk.

Remember the phone model was ME525 lol. Perhaps some friends have also heard of it.

Not to mention the phone card, positioning is always biased. Seeing that the time was up, I had to call the user and agreed to delay for half an hour.

And searched and searched, and searched, and searched, and finally gave up. But they don’t want to miss out on big companies. So I called Yonyou again, hoping to get an interview tomorrow. But Yonyou told me that the interview was over.

Ah, so missed, oneself at that time mind of big company. Perhaps right, after all, they do not have a good educational background, also do not have a rich working background, can have a big company interview has been very lucky.

This is really the hardest and most frustrating interview I’ve ever had.

two

Although the salary is not high, but can not not work all the time ah, after all, I have to eat, pay rent.

So I joined a game company to develop the page game server.

But essentially, I have no interest in either playing or developing games, especially RPGS, which I instinctively think are complicated and take a lot of time to learn how to play.

But at that time, MY idea was very naive: no matter what business or industry it is, WHAT I want to learn and improve is the technology, the game backend can help improve my technical experience in multi-threading and high concurrency.

Now looking at my thoughts at that time, it really was the beginning of my failure. It is also the main reason why I lack competitiveness due to the lack of industry business precipitation.

Now I am a skilled coder at best.

As the number of players dwindled and the flow dropped, so did the development effort.

I vaguely remember that I finished a week’s work in one afternoon. Other time, ah, or their own casual look, and then in the QQ group blowing brag force.

If it is retirement, yes, it is comfortable, but I am still young, I need to grow up, I can not waste the time. I put in a resume, got an interview, and got the job.

three

The new hire is a Series B Internet startup.

The company works overtime at night and has only one day off. But it doesn’t matter. I’m single anyway.

The good thing about a startup is that you’re exposed to a lot of things. At that time, this company was like this. Due to the rapid development of business, back-end services needed to carry out database read-write separation reconstruction, distributed service-oriented governance, and research and development to build monitoring and alarm and other infrastructure, from which we could really learn and experience a lot.

I can’t agree more that growth companies are better for people.

Growth companies are really short of everything. It’s really easy to do something to prove yourself if you want to.

In this start-up company, the boss also asked me to lead a person, independently responsible for the development of a system. Unfortunately, although technology can, but the mind was too simple, the boss let do whatever, no own ideas, no own thinking.

I left the company anyway. One is because at that time the boss technology really let me disagree, always feel the system made a mess, no rules. Then his educational background is not good, can enter ali such a big company, at least can let their working background good-looking.

four

Ali is really the best company I’ve ever worked for. (I haven’t been to any other awesome company. I don’t know.)

Just entered Ali, I really is some not very adapt, especially Ali’s icebreaking culture. I don’t know about other business units, but ours is really endless.

The first question I was asked was: Choose one of these girls to be a wife, a lover and a girlfriend.

I was at a loss how to answer. If you can’t answer the question, take a chance. I ended up rolling eggs all night.

If you don’t know what “egg rolling” is, Google it.

But now that I think about it, it’s kind of a happy memory.

Later, when new people joined our team, the boss asked me to host the ice-breaking activity. The boy is ok, the girl is ask not export, the eldest brother also often because of my problem low limit is too high, and not satisfied.

Let me get back to that.

They’re older than me. They’ve worked longer than me. They’re all graduate students. But it’s a good thing I’m free to ask them questions and not be afraid to show my stupidity.

Perhaps this is the advantage of big companies, experienced cattle people, and the quality of people is generally quite good.

There are so many good memories from ali’s time.

For no reason, I was arranged by the boss to participate in the performance of the 10th anniversary program of the business Department. During the rehearsal, I met a lot of beautiful girls in Beijing and Hangzhou, and the performance even won the award. The people in the team are really envious of me. Later, I attended the 18th anniversary celebration of Alibaba. I also rehearsed, ate and played with several long-legged girls in Hangzhou every day. That time was really happy and wonderful.

You might say, “That’s not your girl. There’s nothing to brag about. But I really thought it was a good experience. Ha ha

Sorry, I have wandered off again. Maybe there are so many good experiences that I can’t help writing them down.

Because there are so many good experiences in Ali, so I can’t help saying it. Maybe that’s why I think Ali is the best company I’ve ever worked for.

Tell me about your job at Ali.

Ali has performance appraisal. Before, I didn’t have independent thinking and did whatever the boss arranged. This is also the reason why I got 3.25 in the first period when I just started working in Ali.

To work in Ali, you have to be thoughtful and thoughtful. Even to take it to the extreme, no matter how much effort you put into supporting the development of the business, even if the business is doing well, it doesn’t matter to you as a developer. The performance of the developer is measured by whether the old system has been greatly improved or the new system has been developed to improve the work efficiency.

So at Alibaba, in addition to supporting business development, try to make something, at least something you can tell a story to your superiors.

This way, there are good and bad ways. The good thing is that it encourages people to innovate. On the downside, it’s easy to see duplicate wheels that look similar.

In a mature and stable business division like ours, the new system that we can think of and the transformation that is easy to carry out are almost all promoted by those who come early to tell stories, and the remaining systems are often the old systems that are difficult to transform.

In contrast to the growth companies, there really is very little missing.

I often feel that joining a mature, stable division is like entering a market that has already been turned from blue to red by early arrivals. The early comers have been rewarded and promoted, while the late comers, no matter how hard they work in this red sea, are often just eating soup, and their input and output are far worse than the early comers.

As Toutiao’s boss, Zhang Yiming, puts it.

If a person has ideas, wants to break through and challenges, in fact, a growing company or a growing department is more suitable. Perhaps the growth company wages low, will die, but its growth space to bring you growth experience is indelible, but also the most precious. If you really want to move on.

five

Based on the above knowledge, ALTHOUGH I am very reluctant to leave Ali, I have decided to leave Ali recently.

Time really fast, work fast five years I still so ordinary, mediocre, really shame.

Before I turn 30, I want to make one last effort. Go to a growing company that doesn’t lack great people, not only technology but also business, not only to do and think about discovery.

18 years, I am looking forward to making my own achievements in the new company.

six

So let me conclude.

My two biggest failures, I hope you don’t follow my path when you start your career:

1. They only focus on technological growth, do not care about business and industry job-hopping, and eventually become lack of industry background and precipitation, but no competitiveness. At best, he’s a skilled coder.

2, do not think more about the work, think far, the boss arranged what to do what, and finally make themselves only the bottom performer, it is difficult to promote.

Finally, I’d like to share a point I forgot where I saw it. He said that success is actually very simple, is: find a good XXX, and then stick to XXX. Such as

Find a good company and stick to it.

Find a good stock and stick with it.

Find a good wife and stick with it.

Wait…

Some friends think that ali is not a failure.

In fact, it is not so difficult as long as the technology is solid into Ali.

In the long run, if you work in Ali for a lifetime as a code farmer, it will be a failure.

I really feel like a failure, working so long, or just a skilled coder.

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