My own qualifications are relatively limited, I did not realize what the truth, but very deep to understand a truth: do not just walk with your head down, but also look up at the road.

Tell me about my own experience.

After graduating from Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics in 2014, I worked as an R&D engineer in an Internet factory (I was still in Zhongguancun at that time, and later moved to Crossroads), mainly in the direction of big data. At that time, people were young and enthusiastic about technology. The Internet was not as crowded as it is now. After work, I stayed in the company to study technology, mainly looking at the source code of open source framework, such as Hadoop and HBase, and reported the progress to the supervisor in weekly reports.

After a long time, some small achievements in work may attract the attention of leaders, who think I am a person who can be cultivated. Once, he came to my desk and said to me, “It’s good to like researching technology, but you can’t just do research. You must combine it with the business of the company.”

What does that mean? Two simple examples:

  1. You know the technology, but you don’t have an application in the company, and it’s useless from the company’s point of view.

  2. There’s a technology that’s being used in one of your businesses, and you’re doing a lot of research on that technology, but it doesn’t do you any good from the company’s point of view if you’re doing a lot of research on that technology, or if you’re not doing a lot of research on that technology.

To say that technology is useless to the company is to say that you are useless to the company.

Why do you have to look at it from the company’s point of view, because only if you are recognized by the company will you have a chance to move up.

A better scenario:

There are problems or unsatisfactory results in a certain business of the company. You solve the problems or improve the results through your own technology. While improving their professional ability, they also reflect their value in the company’s business, win-win!

How can you do that? While burying your head in technology (walking with your head down), be sure to learn more about the company’s business scenario and needs (looking up at the road).

It seems so obvious and easy to do, why don’t so many people do it?

On the one hand, most technical people have an ideal country: they like to work silently in their own land and live a good rural life, rather than the secular life outside. I concentrate on doing my own thing and just finish the tasks handed to me. I don’t want to take care of other things and I am lazy to take care of them.

On the other hand, the probability of promotion of engineers in the Internet field is not high, and the salary increase mainly depends on job-hopping; At the same time, there is a saying: business can not be taken away, but technology can be taken away;

Once the two aspects are supported, people will feel that they can concentrate on technology, business is good or bad has little to do with them; The company is out of line, oneself change another, perhaps return can raise a little salary.

Why do job interviews build rockets and jobs turn screws?

During the interview, I studied so many techniques, but I didn’t have a place to make them at ordinary times. Finally I caught the opportunity, but I couldn’t talk to people and show them how hard it was. The other party sees you this posture, oneself also can’t drop son, that lead a few moves.

When I was working, I didn’t care about my business. Naturally, I didn’t know where the company’s rockets were, or I didn’t have the ability to build a certain type of rocket. I couldn’t stay idle and couldn’t find something to do for myself.

All that said, there’s actually one thing. As a worker, their own good, very good; The company is good and very good; If you can combine the two together, it will be better, their own play strange upgrade road will be more smooth and broad.

@Adorable cat’s dad, Internet practitioner/big data architect/full stack developer

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