With the rapid development and transformation of the Internet, the fear of the elderly in the technology sector has been more and more discussion. Many programmers after working for 5-10 years, I will start thinking about how they will work in their lives and whether they will be abandoned by the times.
Especially in countries entrepreneurial years, like a bat as big as a small start-up company, like, like, like a young staff, it has become one of many businesses invisible rules of recruitment. For example, Huawei clear that employees must retire after 45 years. In recent years, Ali was looking for a young team, 35-year-old programmer low success rate in terms of the application of the following positions P8. An Internet financial company in an interview that 100 people, in the recruitment of technical staff, the average age of the developers should not exceed 30 years old, architect of age should not exceed 35 years. Many fast-growing start-ups, especially young people, from the CEO to chief technology officer, not an average age of 30 years old.
Now, the world of the Internet seems to be the young people of the world. So, 35 years of age, more than 10 years of programmer Where? How they are now living and working conditions? With this question, 100offer in Beijing interviewed two good programmers have similar qualifications, they are nearly 40 years old. One is the anxiety and confusion, and the other is self-confidence and enthusiasm. Perhaps these two very different state of mind reflects the status of the majority of elderly farmers living in China, at the same time, they are about to enter the "old age." For this stage of programmers, it can be used as reference.
Huangming Guo: 38 years old, from bats to start-up companies, before the age of 40 want to call back
Huangming Guo, 38 years old, in 2004, graduated from Beijing a research university. He now lives in Beijing, a car, a house, a wife and children. The first 10 years of his career progress smoothly. Most of the students when they are around the college directly after graduation when the teacher, not here Huangming Guo chose to join the Internet industry, when the Internet industry is still in its infancy, and then for 10 years.
At first, he was not known, and now he has become a Beijing company engaged in search-related technical work of front-line Internet companies. Two years later, because there is no more space in the technical implementation, he handed off to Beijing, a BAT subsidiary, and then do eight years. From ordinary developer to team leader and then manager, Huangming Guo in eight years was promoted to four levels. At the time, he did the same search algorithm, but because of the company in the market with strong competitors, the user scale has been in an awkward stage, it is difficult to break, work is basically no longer a challenge.
"A lot of young people do not want to come to our company, felt like nursing homes. They would rather have a platform from their exposure to the product or item 0-1 of the process, rather than under the previous copy the code work. Huangming Guo said the technology could be obsolete common problem for many large companies, also hindered the addition of more young people. However, the development of technology in the world has increased drastically. even four year old programmer Huangming Guo, the emergence of new technologies will remain with them and appealing to a sense of crisis, so in June of this year, he chose to leave the bat for eight years, he came to the outside world. in his own words, "I want to play another 40 years before. "
However, the interview process is not smooth. Huangming Guo has a strong academic background and work background, in his first 100 invitations only received five copies interview invitation. In an interview with two invitations, one of the companies rejected him on the grounds that after a round of interviews, his technique too old, which makes him confident in the strength of their technology. This was a blow. But in the end he managed to join another start-up company, engaged in data mining and machine learning related to lead a younger than his superiors about the 10-person team. The pace of work has gone from morning 7: 8 changed to 10:00 pm from work to work, sometimes home on the weekends.
Last week, Huangming Guo took time from busy schedules to meet us. When he was 38 looks tired. During the talk, he will feel nervous. "I just go in a few months, I have done a lot of work every day he smiled and said:." Some of the language and techniques such as machine learning and scala, in previous work had not been involved. They are now also learning. "