Age of anxiety

Spread on the net about the transformation principle of middle-aged Internet person is such: good friend much of sell insurance, good friend little of open didi, really can’t send takeout again, finally believe the words of teacher Ma, 996 is your blessing, at least explain you or a young leek. This is of course ridicule, most programmers still hope in the transformation of technical experts or management posts, in fact, no matter how to turn, there is no change in nature, working or working, of course, this is another topic.

At present, although it is not age discrimination, it is indeed more friendly to young people in terms of employment preference, interview process and workplace atmosphere. The average age of shenzhen is 32.5 years old. As people age, once they lose their jobs, it will be more difficult to find a job step by step. Many programmers worked very hard, and constantly learning new technology, wish won’t easily be eliminated, so the fact it’s a pity that the enterprise is the front-end and back-end, Android/ios, type of work, such as, the UI is so thin, is to reduce risk, because you are essentially just a tool, is the enterprise management in the production of screws, which can be replaced at any time, Any kind of work is difficult to leave the enterprise and the society independent docking.

Field from the front, the community is continuing to improve, new technology emerge in endlessly, all kinds of framework, development of engineering scaffold greatly reduces the threshold, the couple can quickly get started is less of a premium technology, architecture level, of course, a senior front-end is still scarce, but it’s only a matter of time, took his speaking, belong to the regular turned into the front end, catch up with the Internet development dividend, The demand for the front end is large, coupled with the immature development of the front end and being at the end of the contempt chain, high-end talents are reluctant to enter. However, judging from the recent recruitment for the company, there have been a large number of domestic double first-class people with overseas study background pouring in. It can be predicted that the future must be a highly internal and elite competition state.

The transformation of management

The transition to management was not planned, after all, I had been focused on the technology field for many years, but this career transition gave me a different perspective and triggered some thinking. Why will transfer, this has to say, Shenzhen is a fast-paced city, the company’s internal adjustment is also fast pace, the development of the post to the management post, largely because of the internal interest struggle, a wave of SAO operation down, the management went half. In order for an enterprise to run normally, it always needs people to manage it. Therefore, we leeks were given some opportunities for promotion, and then we had the internal competition. For the first time, we managed a team of 20+.

Internal competition is generally speeches PPT + site, due to their speech experience during school and listen to a lot of Luo Zhenyu paid courses (didn’t find any eggs in the practical work, but the fool leadership or great), in my opinion this is called received bonuses (tiny BuGouJu than others can get dividends). PPT uses a lot of knowledge about organizational behavior and product thinking, which sounds very reasonable to myself, but it is difficult to use in work. After all, true knowledge comes from practice. Only by doing more and saying less can one truly improve one’s ability.

Improve yourself

Internal competition is a common way, from their own transformation, there are three aspects can be prepared in advance:

  1. Speech skills, statistics show that a lot of people to publicly express more uncomfortable than death, fear, afraid to be a focus, this is ill, overcame the obstacle of his heart, does not need to be as high standards as individual talk, can clear logic and expression, speech is a craft, not letter can see crosstalk performer Mr Luo, even if cell phones do not a hammer, Do live selling goods is also a batch of 6.
  2. Read more books, especially those on management and organizational behavior. The focus of management is to shape one’s own leadership. Only by deeply understanding the organization and people can we establish a good interactive relationship and an efficient operation mode.
  3. To pay attention to workplace relations, first of all, you need to manage your emotions well. Emotional instability makes it difficult to get trust from others. Have a strong business ability, if their own technology is not out of hand, want to serve the crowd afraid is difficult; You know the difference between good and bad, likeThe godfatherDo more to help others at ordinary times. Vote for you when it matters, not stab you.

Encounter difficulties

Management work and research and development ability is not the same as for the need of, first must have been struggling, for research and development of the front-end, further increased the difficulty, there are a lot of knowledge gaps, during also did a lot of exploration and attempt, such as the introduction of the okr execution of work, agile development, ipd development process, summed up down or have a lot of experience and lessons:

  1. Without full-stack technology, the front end has no sense of existence for a long time, just because it deviates from the core business. For example, the final thing for the business — data, the front end is naturally isolated. Only with data can we do business analysis, cost analysis and user analysis. At present, most product data is large and complex, involvingObject, wide table, key valueFrom the perspective of management, you need to be responsible for the performance of the entire department. Even if you are not technically proficient, you need to fully understand the technology stack used, so that you can have a good entry point.
  2. Basic thinking, lack of product programmer are very few in this effort, how not always and product wang tit for tat, but as a manager, must fully understand the product positioning, focus on the user experience, products need to clearly know the product users, the product can supply services, to make good software products.
  3. Lack of project management experience, the operation of the team must have a detailed plan, plan and achievement tracking is the most important thing of project management, a bad plan will either waste resources, or the project cannot be delivered in time, even if the plan can not catch up with the change, also need to make a detailed plan and transparent information, can be used for referencePDCAManagement cycles make adjustments, I always believePlan is nothing, but planing is everything.
  4. We lack marketing knowledge. When we develop a product, we need to promote it to the market. We need some marketing knowledge on how to increase downloads, increase the number of users, connect with customers and persuade them to use our product.
  5. Lack of financial knowledge, the ultimate purpose of the product must be profit, which requires cost accounting, market bidding analysis, product pricing, the collection of money is not easy.

To reposition

In the management position, I can get to know some things that I can’t get to know in the technical position, such as the company’s strategic planning, organizational structure adjustment, business secret management, post and salary fixing, personnel recruitment, and various training. These knowledge also greatly expanded my vision and gained a lot.

From a technical position to a managerial position is just a change in position, but it does not mean that you have job security, and the risk of unemployment may be greater, because you have not changed from an employee to an employer. You are still creating value for the employer instead of owning your own business, but just changing a working mode.

In my opinion, the significance of management post is not that we can harvest younger leeks and get higher salary and fewer shifts, but that we can change from a tool man to an entrepreneur, learn how to dock with the social operation system alone, how to create value, and lay some foundation and practice for our road to freelance work.