Many people's first reaction to programmers is "high salary".
From the perspective of industry average salary, the income of "programmer" related majors is indeed a little higher.
However, there is a big difference in the internal salary of "programmers". Most people have a monthly salary of 10,000 to 20,000, and the first-tier cities can reach 30,000 to 50,000. The top programmers can easily earn millions of dollars a year.
Many programmers have questions: Why do some programmers have an annual salary of one million, while their own monthly salary is only 5,000?
What is the key to determining salary?
core competitiveness
Programmer is a highly differentiated profession. Some people have become senior engineers and senior architects after a few years of growth, while some people are likely to be junior and intermediate engineers after working for 10 years.
For programmers, the most important thing is of course high-level professional ability and work ability. This is the core competitiveness of programmers in the industry and the guarantee of higher salary.
1. Professional ability
1) Programmers are proficient in at least one programming language such as Java, Python, Golang, C, and C++, and also know other 1-2 languages. Among them, C and C++ have the highest proportion of high salaries, followed by Java. With the rapid rise of Python in the OA field and AI field in recent years, Python's high salary growth trend is also very obvious.
2) Proficient in Mysql, as the most commonly used persistent database system, Mysql can be said to be second to none in the OLTP field. Mastering it can easily deal with data modeling problems in complex business situations, as well as database design and optimization problems under high concurrency and high throughput.
3) Fully understand the distributed independent cache system and message queuing system of Redis. Whether it is Redis cluster construction and maintenance, or Redis usage scenarios, locking mechanism, error recovery, etc., you must be proficient in handling tens of millions of high concurrent requests.
4) At least understand the basic algorithm to easily deal with the work of this part of the algorithm, and be able to select the appropriate algorithm in actual work to deal with complex business logic.
5) Understand data analysis tools and open source systems, be able to process large-scale data, and have a good understanding of traffic load balancing and elastic expansion in cloud computing.
2. Personal ability
1) Naked programming ability. Writing code naked is not to show off technical capabilities, but the current integrated development environment is too complete, and all the functions that everyone can think of have been perfected. As a result, some programmers cannot normally operate and write programs without the integrated development tool.
2) Debugging ability. To some extent, debugging ability is more important than coding ability. For programmers, the ability to fix bugs within reasonable steps and write code with fewer bugs in a minimalist way can significantly improve efficiency. Whether you can use debugging skills to quickly solve problems is an important criterion for measuring the level of a programmer.
3) Coordination and control capabilities. After the product idea comes out, you can estimate the construction period and judge what to do and what not to do. This is to help the company judge the direction of concentration of R&D efforts, help the company coordinate resources and control risks. This is also a necessary ability for a team leader. .
Choice is as important as effort
There is not a single factor that determines salary, and the "annual salary of one million" is not only achieved by hard work. It is necessary to have sufficient professional ability, but sometimes some external conditions are also an important reason for programmers to achieve high salaries.
1. city
Almost all high-paying occupations are concentrated in a few first-tier cities and new first-tier cities. If you want to get a high salary, you must go to these cities.
The human resources and social resources of first-tier cities attract more companies to establish here. In order to develop faster, large companies offer high salaries to compete for talents. Companies and big cities create more value, enabling them to pay higher wages.
Choosing a correct city or company may be the first step in "annual salary of one million".
2. Seek refinement before seeking more
Many people's cognition of programmers' work still stays at typing codes, but in fact this "knocking codes" thing is divided into categories.
When many people just started working, they switched jobs and changed careers one after another, from the back end to the algorithm, from the algorithm to the data, and then from the data to the cloud computing. It's not as good as a newcomer who has worked steadily for a year, and the salary is naturally not much higher.
If you can specialize in one thing from the beginning, even if you start with a small company and accumulate experience, then move to a large company to develop. After a few years of experience, you will become a senior expert.
You can try and make mistakes, but you can't always try and make mistakes. We must determine the direction for deep cultivation, first seek refinement and then seek more.
3. Plan well and keep learning
The workplace brings us not only a platform for work, but also a platform for learning. The advancement of technology is changing with each passing day. If programmers want to continue to advance in their careers, active learning is very important.
Growth is lifelong. You can formulate clear career goals and plans. Only when you know where you want to go can you know what you want to do and get the "million annual salary" you want.
Possess strong professional ability, upgrade your programming thinking from the bottom layer of coding, and finally implement correct planning and continuous progress.