Zhao Xinyi is a typical case that meets the above factors. BAT, who has just worked for nearly 6 years, was promoted and became a member of the programmer club with an annual salary of one million.
When he first entered the workplace, he accumulated low-level skills in the nursing home.
After getting a master's degree in an ordinary university, Xinyi, like many fresh graduates, did not have any long-term career plans, but did not hesitate to choose the only research institute that provided the Imperial Capital account among several offer, and it was four years after going.
In the institute, Zhao Xinyi has been doing the basic technology related to architecture. Although the first career choice after graduation was a bit confusing, Zhao Xinyi is still grateful for that experience. The first job is very important, not only to connect the knowledge of the school with the enterprise, but also to lay a solid foundation for the basic knowledge, because it is a very basic job.
The relatively simple and gentle working rhythm of the institute allows him to spend more time on self-study and improve his skills in his spare time. In addition, his years of low-level technology accumulation, even if he is doing client applications in Internet companies, is difficult to achieve.
Therefore, Zhao Xinyi, who is still in the fledgling stage, has an exclusive technical competitive advantage, which has laid a solid foundation for his later transformation to the client.
Turn to BAT, a year of rapid growth.
In the fourth year of work, Xinyi finally felt the bottleneck in the slow-paced nursing home. No matter our own technology or company platform, there is no room for further improvement, so we really want to find a bigger platform.
In 20 12, it is a foregone conclusion that the internet empire will be dominated by BAT, and Xinyi is also eager to hear about the fast-paced work of BAT. Plus the experience at the bottom, he is also interested in a client software based on this bottom technology. Locked in the goal of client-side transformation to 2C, there is no doubt that we should choose between the client teams of large companies.
In the process of job hunting, Xinyi contacted the customer teams of two Internet giants, but through repeated interviews, Zhihu and other online channels, combined with the news of alumni acquaintances, he finally chose to join the current BAT company. As it turns out, it was worthwhile for him to pay more attention to the comprehensive information of all parties at that time, because the development of another client team that once made him hesitate to join was not satisfactory.
However, Xinyi didn't know at that time that his new customer department was about to be reborn. Previously, the V 1 version of the client software was not well received by users, and the technical architecture was complicated, so the team leader decided to reinvent the wheel and make V2 from scratch.
After more than a month, some old members of the team changed their blood and left, and the work of the underlying engine was temporarily taken over.
In the face of the leader's tentative inquiry about whether he was willing to take over this business, Xinyi did not hesitate and agreed on the spot. In his view, this is an excellent exercise opportunity: as a newcomer, I can actually do any business. However, the decision-makers hope to subvert the tradition in a brand-new way in the product, which is equivalent to either making it or ending it. It is risky and difficult, and there is enough room for display.
As a result, the brand-new team of 20 customers started the development of V2 in the second half of 20 12. Or new art, new people, responsible for completing the encapsulation of the underlying engine and the realization of related functional modules.
20 13 after nearly a whole year of technical research, overtime work and even invention patents, he helped the team realize the industry's first introduction method of the bottom engine, which not only made users shine, but also gained a new experience of light, simple and fast, and won back the company's annual technology award. He also rose to P6+ (corresponding to Ali ranking) from P6 who just joined the company in just over a year.
Recalling the year of rapid growth, Xinyi said: I did work a lot of overtime, but I didn't feel bitter at that time. Once the existing technical difficulties can be broken, they will fall into it. I am confident that the product can improve the user experience. As a programmer, I don't feel tired if the future direction of the product is what I am looking for and what I want to do.
Building a team from scratch to another level is more difficult than expected.
From 20 14 to 20 15, Xinyi began to recruit for herself, and gradually expanded her team from scratch. His work is still based on coding, and he is developing in the direction of technical experts, but he also assumes management responsibilities and thinks about higher-level problems from the architecture. The team has been working on the V3 version. Xinyi led the team to provide a unique architecture design, which helped the product to break the industry record in startup and upgrade speed, and the daily work increased to ten times of 20 12, which even Xinyi herself did not expect.
This achievement made him rise to P7 at the end of 20 15, only one step away from the annual salary of one million. However, with the great success of products in user penetration, Xinyi began to realize that products further expanded the ceiling of market space. This growth curse can be described as a common problem of BAT products. What puzzles him even more is that although his promotion rhythm has been very smooth, where is the next breakthrough?
According to the regulations, the earliest time for his promotion to P8 is the end of 20 17, and the defense requirements are quite harsh, requiring employees to have sufficient technical depth and breadth and speak with beautiful product business data. If the product doesn't have a key success point enough to attract the defense Committee within this year, I'm afraid it won't be able to pass this promotion threshold just by doing technical maintenance and detail polishing. Although Zhao Xinyi never got rid of this kind of self-doubt, he resisted all kinds of temptations from outside and waited for the opportunity.
The last step to cross the million-year salary
There are not a few employees who feel that they are willing to be promoted to P8 every year, but not everyone can have excellent technical strength like Xinyi and seize the key opportunities given by the team. At the beginning of 20 17, the team leader with a keen sense of product strategy proposed that the next step of the product is to make components and export technical solutions to all product lines of the company, thus infiltrating more users and clients.
With such a big move, the cross-departmental communication between BAT product lines with hundreds of millions of users is tantamount to the communication between companies, and the pressure to push the solution to the ground can be imagined. As the leader of cross-departmental cooperation interface and solution architecture, the new company undertakes more complex functions at first.
In the process of communication, he grasped the principle of mutual benefit and tried to emphasize what benefits cooperation can meet from the perspective of the other party's business.
In the development process, Xinyi's team customized a set of solutions from engine to interface for a product line based on the technical accumulation and product experience of the underlying engine. In other words, other product lines only need to pay attention to their own business logic and hand over all the underlying engine parts to us. Most importantly, they don't need to change the interface of existing products, and the access cost is very low, which not only saves manpower but also improves the user experience.
After a year of hard work, the daily life of Xinyi's client products has increased nearly twice again. With the precipitation in the whole client technology solution project, Xinyi was finally promoted to P8 at the end of 20 17, and tasted the sweetness of millions of annual salary.
Looking back on Xinyi's career growth in the past ten years, we find that he is prepared before almost every promotion opportunity, and he has come up with breakthrough and successful key projects again and again. Maintaining such a rising pace of workplace development is, of course, partly due to the time node and team opportunity for him to join BAT-as the only core of the team, there is a lot of room for development, from newcomers to self-study, all the way to the technical backbone; But behind this, it is inseparable from the scarce technical competitiveness that he steadily accumulated at the beginning of the workplace. With these foundations, he can seize every opportunity to make decisive decisions and follow the trend.
In addition to the new art, we also contacted several other millions of programmers, who are also big Internet companies. Almost without exception, they said that even if the annual salary is one million, financial freedom is still a distant ultimate goal. On the road of pursuing freedom, the string of spirit is always difficult to relax.
Like life, the most fascinating place in the workplace lies in its variability and uncertainty; Internet technology is not only limited to entering BAT, but also a stepping stone to start a business, gilding overseas, deepening the segmentation field and mastering the algorithm field. I wish you a sober introspection and a path that suits you best.
(In order to protect the privacy of candidates, all the names in this article are pseudonyms. )