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Programmer encouragers first attracted our attention when companies such as Meizu and Ali published recruitment Revelations. There were several obvious keywords in the recruitment content: “Teacher Cang, Song Huiqiao, Dugu Jiujian……”.

In the recruitment revelation, the main job of programmer motivator is: “effectively encourage the programmer team, close the distance between programmers, inspire the team to work hard and persistent”.

Recruitment requirements of programmer encourager

Curious, I typed in “Programmer motivator” on the job website. The relevant entry stood out, and some companies even offered a handsome salary.

Let’s look at the specific content of the first job with a monthly salary of 10K to 20K:

Age is not limited, gender is not limited, when the heart of the programmer to enligh10 and encourage, can tolerate IT engineers can not communicate with the personality, successful “tame” programmers.

02. Programmer encourager — Wang Mumu

There is a beautiful programmer encouragement division called Wang Mu Mu.

Wang Mumu said, in fact, the role of the middleman, more like a “peacemaker” strictly, to deal with some very little communication between the programmer, two programmers often have different opinions to the same program written, a lot of time will produce contradiction, and Wang Mumu know immediately after catch the past dozen circle field, two the person’s mood calm, communicate, So that they do not affect the normal work due to conflict.

“They actually have a very rich spiritual world. They all have different interests and I don’t know everything, but if you talk to them and find out what they’re interested in, they’ll always be happy to talk to you.” In wang’s opinion, if you are in a monotonous and monotonous working environment, suddenly someone makes your brain active and happy, it is good for your work.

To be a programmer motivator, it is not enough to rely on “appearance” alone. One also needs to have an understanding of the Internet to communicate with programmers smoothly. Wang Mumu had worked in an Internet company before. Although she was not a computer professional, she still had a good idea about the Internet, so it was easy for her to communicate with programmers. Programmers’ problems are based on the technical aspects of the language or logic as the starting point, do not understand this aspect of knowledge at all.

03. Programmer encourager – Shen Yue

Ms. Shen, 25, a civil engineering graduate from a Beijing university from Northeast China’s Heilongjiang province, started working as a programmer motivator for a financial services company in October. She has long black hair and fair skin. She wears red eye shadow at work and always smiles. Her colleagues call her by the nickname yueyue, which means happy. Her main job is serving at the front desk, organizing social events, buying refreshments for tea breaks and chatting with programmers. She would call a programmer into a conference room and ask him, “Are you working late?” Then listen to his complaints.

“I thought it was quite novel. I had never been in such a position before…” “Programmers really need someone to talk to them from time to time, organize activities for them and reduce stress,” Ms. Shen said.

On a recent Friday, she caught up with Guo Zhenjie, 28. Mr. Guo had a folding bed at his desk, and Ms. Shen asked him if his back still ached from long hours at his desk. He said yes, he had been working until 10 or even 11 the past few nights.

“The company wants to give you a massage, but maybe my technique is not very good,” Ms. Shen told Mr. Guo. Mr. Guo then sat, and Ms. Shen, standing behind him, began massaging his shoulders.

“It was really comfortable,” Mr. Guo said, as Ms. Shen gently hit him on the back with a slapping massager.

The 31-year-old Feng Zhiyi and ShenYue in the same company, is engaged in the research and development work, he said, before the division may be encouraged to see the women online programmer male staff photos of the fan is quite envy, ShenYue by organizing a birthday party for a programmer to play tug of war, sack race, such as games, to make them more active and cheerful, improved the working environment.

He said he was open to a career as a male programmer motivator, but was skeptical: “Isn’t it weird for a girl to talk to a guy as if she were dating him?”

Zhang Jing of human resources, one of the team that hired Shen, stresses the importance of good looks for programmer motivators. Candidates should “start with good features”, speak softly, have an infectious smile and be able to wear simple make-up, she said.

Shen doesn’t think her job is sexist. “I think women just need to be independent, self-reliant and have self-respect,” she says.

Xu Jiaolong, one of the company’s few female programmers who also gets massages from Ms. Shen, doesn’t see a problem with the job. In her view, it’s just “a division of labor.” But she joked that the company could also consider hiring a man to encourage female programmers.

04. What do programmer motivators think?

The New York Times points out that the growing popularity of the “programmer motivator” industry is largely based on a socially entrenched gender stereotype **** that male programmers are generally “nerds” or nerds with no social life. It’s not clear how many companies employ programmer motivators, and some do use them as a gimmick and marketing tool, but the position does exist, and statistically it’s mostly at smaller startups. ** Some companies hire “programmer motivators” as holiday perks for their employees.

There are different opinions about programmer motivators. On Zhihu, someone asked “What is it like to be a programmer motivator?” The comments below are very sharp.

No matter male or female, female or male, it is best not to talk, nor to shake in front of you, nor to send email, originally thought about, who came to talk, the result is completely forgotten. Don’t disturb, is the best support.

Programmers need to be highly focused on the work of the profession, to a beautiful girl to do in the side, how can set his mind at work. So, why don’t you get a guy and fix a bug for you. Better vet it and pair program it together.

Don’t whole these empty, money is the best motivation, MAO grandpa is the best teacher.

“Programmer encourager” is only a small miniature of domestic technology companies, but it profoundly reflects the huge work pressure and emotional needs of employees in the Internet industry, as well as the fact that the ratio of men to women in this industry is not harmonious. How many programmers debug and watch Niigaki Noyi for a while?

What do you think of “programmer motivator” as a programmer?

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