The first time was Alibaba. I came to Alibaba for an internship during the summer vacation of 15 years. At that time, Ali told us that Ali is not only a company, but also a university. There are canteens, commercial streets, Starbucks and even a library. We can also ride bicycles, walk, and see the animals and plants in the park. If you want, you can take the computer to work in the cafe.
I thought there was such a company in the world, and when I joined the company, the image was still not disillusioned. The colleagues in the company are very good. I asked a lot of stupid questions as a Mengxin and got enthusiastic answers. The only thing that worries me is two things. One thing was that the work I was doing was too simple, and I always felt a little sorry for the salary during the internship. The other thing is to become a positive one. Because of the school exam, there is a few days difference between me and the requirement for the positive examination. The boss said that this is a small matter and can be specially approved. It's just that as the date of correction is getting closer and closer, this matter hasn't settled for a long time.
At the intern conference at that time, Ali’s director of human resources told us that there were about 2,000 regular interns. You must know that there are only 3,000 interns in total. Excluding some non-recruitment seasons, it almost means full employment . In fact, it is true. My colleagues told me that internship recruitment is actually the standard for school recruitment. Basically, as long as the performance during the internship is not too bad, they will be retained. This gave me a lot of reassurance.
It's just that I never expected that the famous embrace change event happened within a few days. To put it simply, Ali has greatly reduced the number of recruits, and interns who could have been converted are persuaded to return home. Some people who only made verbal offers were in vain, and those who had made official offers but had not yet negotiated their salary, simply and rudely gave the cabbage price of 6K. Development port, 6K, must not dare to imagine it now?
During this period, I finally received the final interview from my school. What did I ask? I asked me what layers the computer network is divided into, and also asked me what is the difference between ++a and a++ in C language. I didn’t ask about algorithm or internship experience, and then gave me a B+ rating. It means that you can stay in previous years, but this year is special, so please be smart. It doesn't look like an interview, it's like sending you away.
Just leave. Fortunately, because I have always been cautious, I found a second-tier company and took an offer to guarantee the bottom line before the boots landed. I have stayed in Ali, and to be honest, I didn't like this company. To be honest, I was a bit picky at the time. The T family didn't want to go because of some unpleasant recruitment, and the B family simply didn't want to go. Look at it, and finally put the treasure on Microsoft.
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Microsoft's story is much simpler, there are not so many twists and turns. Microsoft is a foreign company, it is nothing more than written examinations and interviews.
The part of the written test is the algorithm problem. At that time, I just retired from acm, and the algorithm skills are still there. I am a few blocks away. I did a very good job in the written test. I got 380 with a total of 400 points. But what surprised me was that after finishing the written test, there was no more. I waited left without news, and waited right without news.
Later, I took the HR of the offer company and urged me to sign a tripartite agreement, so I faced another major choice in my life. If you don’t sign a tripartite agreement, you will probably lose your offer here. If you sign, you will have to give up the opportunity for an interview with Microsoft.
I thought about it again and again and decided to postpone it for a few more days to give Microsoft a little more time. Soon a week passed, and I still didn't wait for news, I decided not to wait anymore. However, just two hours after I wrote the tripartite agreement and sent it out, I received an interview invitation from Microsoft Suzhou onsite (hotel reimbursement for air tickets). Many of my friends persuaded me that he didn't know that you signed the tripartite agreement. Besides, even if you do, you can break the contract. You can go to the face to see it first and you won't suffer.
I don't know what kind of mentality I was at that time. Maybe I was a little afraid of trouble, maybe I didn't want to waste this expense, maybe I was afraid of passing the interview, maybe I was afraid of the interview. In short, I refused the interview invitation in the end. I have never been to the industrial park in Suzhou. It was not until I returned to Ali and refreshed my resume that such a small regret was completely solved.
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These two misses, when I just graduated, I feel quite regretful when I think of it. I just don't know how, in recent years, I think of them less and less frequently, and I don't know when I start, I don't seem to think of them anymore. Even when I think of it, I just laughed it off. It turned out that something like this happened when I was young.
This is probably what I said before, the kind of feeling that "Qingzhou has passed ten thousand mountains" after looking back. The doorway here is very easy to understand, and I have always been concerned about it before, because I felt that for me at that time, it was very difficult for me to enter a large company. Such an opportunity is very rare, and it is difficult to have it again if it is missed. I don't think so now. In addition to the open-mindedness brought about by growth, the more important point is that if I want to go to a big company, I can go anytime.
It is difficult for school admissions to have this kind of mentality, but you can understand that big companies are hiring every year, and you have opportunities every year . Your opportunity has not been missed, as long as you want, you can have an interview opportunity at any time.
In addition, the more important point is that people who have worked will find something more important than the company . For students, they do not know what department, position, future potential and development plan. They only saw that you were an offer from Ali, he was an offer from Toutiao, and I only got an offer from a second-tier company. But they can't see Ali, most of the headlines are marginal businesses and marginal teams. Being a marginal person in a fringe team is more painful than being a leader in a second-tier company . There is no good performance, no opportunity for promotion, and no learning. What's the use of just having the aura of a big company?
Similarly, they still don’t know that they have worked in a big company for two years. They looked at their classmates who did not get an offer when they graduated with them. They turned around and changed jobs with a higher salary and a higher position than themselves and then worked with them. What is it like. In this case, can you really calm your mind?
It seems unfair, but this is not determined by you, or even by HR, it is determined by the market. The market determines that the lowest level in large companies is reserved for school admissions, and in all likelihood, social recruits who jump in are one level higher than school admissions. It is very good if the school enrollment can adapt to the environment within two years and make achievements to get a promotion. But you turn your head and find that your hard work in the past two years is likely to be no better than someone else's job interview . Can you be content?
Now think about it, is it not so good to enter a big company when recruiting from school? When I was young, there were many things filled with righteous indignation. When I grew up, I realized that things were just like this .
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The story is told, the emotion is also said, and finally I will share with you a little personal experience . I personally feel that it should be a bit useful for a rookie who has not yet graduated. No matter how many people can see here, as long as one person listens to it, then this article is worth it.
Small companies and large companies are not all-or-nothing. Although large companies have many advantages, small companies also have many advantages. At different stages of our careers and under our different pursuit goals, the company that suits us is different. The answer is not fixed.
To put it bluntly, the premise of choosing a company is to understand your own needs . Most school admissions can't do this, and they can't be blamed, because they don't know what they want. Therefore, we can only make relatively shallow choices, such as salary and company size. Many marketing accounts say that young people’s first job should not only be based on salary . This sentence is correct, but the mistake is that these accounts are missing the second half of the sentence. If young people’s first job does not look at salary, what do they look at?
The answer is to look at growth .
After all, career development does not happen overnight. We earn 20,000 more and less than 20,000 in the first few years. It really makes little difference. The annual salary difference between a P8 and a P7 may be able to earn a P5 for several years. When you and a P8 said that we were both P5, I earned tens of thousands more than you. Is it meaningful?
I'm not saying that big companies can't bring growth, it's not right. Large companies exercise people very much, and the improvements they give are huge. It’s just that it has a prerequisite, and not everyone can maximize its improvement . The greatest value of a large company is not in the technology itself, but in that it represents an industry or the forefront of a technology. For example, if you join Ali’s recommendation team, the important thing is not how much you learned about Ali’s recommendations when making recommendations, but how you know the most advanced recommendation system in the world. What needs to be done if a system wants to move in this direction. If you can learn these two points in place when you are working at Ali, you can say that you have graduated directly in the recommended field, and then go to other companies to make recommendations, you can give pointers to Jiangshan. This old book is enough for at least ten years.
But if you want to learn this in place, obviously not a newcomer can do it. Nine out of ten newcomers in general do not have this kind of perspective, and all they see are just a little bit in front of them. Some functions in my system, some technical details, some implementation methods, etc. These are not useless, but just a glimpse of the leopard. The higher the level, the more things they see and the deeper their understanding. If I go back to Ali and stay for another two years now, I can learn at least several times what I had before.
From this point of view, I don't really recommend newcomers to big companies. Because there are too many things for newcomers to learn, they don't have technical precipitation and technical vision, and they often can't see or have the ability to see such a big blueprint. Since you can’t see the blueprint, you will be under a lot of pressure when you go. You will also face the problems of screwing the screws in large companies and other challenges. It’s better not to go at the beginning and practice your hands first. , Put your own strength up to consider again.
Of course, a company that is too small does not work. Too small a company means that it is very imperfect, and there is nothing to be desired. I have never met a powerful expert to give directions and learn technology, nor do I have a mature business or technical field to study. It may be very small things to do and do. Of course, there must be a lot of things learned, but they may not be effective learning. It is very possible that many things learned are only applicable in a certain field or a certain company . For example, a friend of mine joined a startup company as a product manager and often helped the boss write tenders. Can you say that the ability to write bids is useless? Of course not, but for product managers in the Internet industry, there is often no requirement for the skill of writing bids in their careers.
Therefore, the most suitable for newcomers are actually medium-sized companies with very rapid development . Such a company has a mature business and a certain amount of technology accumulation, so there is no need for nothing. When newcomers enter such a company, they can often quickly take on a whole more important field and have a clear direction of study. And with the rapid growth of the company, it is easy to get job upgrades and more exercises.
When such a company grows to a bottleneck, you can consider hopping to a large company. Because the problems you have encountered before have been encountered by large companies before, you can find solutions to your problems there. And at this time, you are no longer comparable in terms of vision and ability. If you go to a big company at this time, you can definitely learn more and get more growth. Only in this way can the promotion brought by big companies be maximized.
Of course, this is just my personal opinion, and it depends on you.
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