Recently, many friends said that the technology research and development of Internet companies are all about cabbage prices, and the mayor/market, marketing and operation are much better than technology. Many domestic companies seem to ignore technology. What's it actually like?
compare IT technology and it management! Why do large domestic enterprises ignore technology?
don't p>IT technical experts exist?
firstly, many domestic enterprises have high-level technical experts. Not all IT technologies are finally transferred to technology management. Depends on the project.
for my own sake, the first company I graduated from threw a technology project at me. Companies should use TD-SCDMA chips from the beginning. The contract is very complicated, and I don't frown after studying for months.
later, in order to build the project structure, the company specially recruited several doctors, and usually did not write code, but usually gave structural training to the department, mainly to solve the difficulties of the project.
In the future, we will do router switch projects. Without experts, the company can't hire a doctor, so we can only find someone in the department. Fortunately, the project is not big, and technology can basically master the technical architecture in those aspects in one month. Later, you can gradually come into contact with more technical architecture projects and eventually become an "IT technical expert".
therefore, IT technology can go to the end completely, especially in the project to exercise their technical ability.
To become a technical expert, opportunity is more important than ability
In fact, not only foreign companies, but also many domestic software companies have two ways to develop IT technology: IT technology and IT management. Along these two lines, employees can move on like "weird upgrades".
For example, among software engineers, it is bigger than senior software engineering normal university, higher than senior software engineering normal university and higher than technical experts.
Generally speaking, programmers are too poor and too diligent. When they are old, even if they are mixed with "senior software engineers", the problem will not be too big. According to my observation, more than 6% programmers can get the title of "Senior Software Engineer".
but "technical experts" are different. It takes a lot of hard work and opportunities.
Like the literal meaning of the title, "technical expert" requires to be an expert in some fields, to guide the work of programmers in some fields, and even to have a certain influence in the industry. For example, some patents, etc.
technical experts should not only accumulate skills, but also have opportunities. After all, the purpose of an enterprise is to make money, and the department where engineers work is also very important.
Although you may be a programmer with accumulated technology, your department may not be profitable or even lose money, but it is difficult to impress the judges of the technical committee during the technical review. Obviously, the good technology depends on the product to be verified, and the product depends on the market to be verified.
therefore, the opportunity to be promoted as a "technical expert" is very important. Sometimes more important than the technology itself.
according to my observation, less than 1% of programmers can be promoted to technical experts.
another point is that after being promoted to "technical expert", programmers need to undertake specific technical management responsibilities, but they are limited to the technology itself and usually do not include management.
The value of technology is not as high as imagined
From a macro perspective, technology is the origin of work and has unlimited value. But from an economic point of view, the value of technology is very limited.
from a macro point of view, technology has promoted the development of the world and has unlimited value. Apple relies on mobile phones to raise companies that have fallen into bankruptcy crisis to the first place in the global market value.
but from the microeconomic point of view, technology is not so important. Let me give you an example.
in the eyes of technicians, technological development is a seed. With seeds, roots will flourish and fruits will increase. In the eyes of capital, IT R&D also sells a bag of this seed from 5 yuan, but it can grow fruits from 1 yuan.
technology is like a seed, and its value is not high. Capital is definitely more important than technology. Because companies can use capital to buy technology immediately. If there is no unique technology, short-term monopoly will soon be imitated and lose the advantages of iphone. And Apple's R&D expenses are only 3% to 4%.
As saplings, we should strive to create better seeds to improve the voice and value of IT technology.