Previously: # [Chunge Story Club 01] “2K monthly salary, start work tomorrow”
As I said last time, after confusion and thinking, I finally found a job as an “Android developer” after long preparation and learning and being insulted by training institutions for many times.
Unexpectedly, I received my first raise just two weeks after joining the company.
The story goes like this:
First, the speed of light entry
The company I worked for, let’s call it “Hometreasure Company”.
After the salary negotiation, the whole onboarding process moves at the speed of light.
- We’ll be done talking at 10:00
- After signing the contract at 10:30, I was told to bring my own computer
- At 11 o ‘clock, Lei threw me a SVN address and told me to pull down the code first if I was free today.
Good boy, once again understand what China speed is.
I was in a state of high excitement.
Because during the months of my career transition and self-study, the most difficult barrier for me to break through was “getting in”.
Every day I’m out of the game, I’m out of the game, I’m out of the game, I’m out of the game, I’m out of the game, I’m out of the game, I’m out of the game.
So “getting in” is the hardest step for me, so I’m willing to work for nothing, just for “getting in” itself.
Because of this, I am very excited!
I was supposed to be there the next day, but I took a seat in the office that afternoon and got to know the code.
That’s right. Curly is me.
I didn’t realize at the time that such a quick onboarding and workflow seemed unusual for any company.
When I learned the structure of the team, I realized it wasn’t easy.
Two, want to speak but stop lei elder brother
I applied for the position of “Android development”.
Before I joined the company, the production and research team consisted of 7 members, including 5 r&d members, 1 artist and 1 product (the product was the boss himself).
The structure of the 5 r&d is as follows:
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Java server development * 2
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IOS development * 2
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Android development * 1
It seemed reasonable, but I was in dire need of an Android developer, and I stumbled on the pain point of the staffing gap.
When I arrived, seven people, except my boss, crowded into a room more than ten square meters high.
The Android developer who started before me was a girl. Let’s call her “Magic Sister,” but I’ll explain why later.
Magic, who was about 24 years old, said she had two years of experience and would have been paid around $5K at the time.
For me, with 2 years of experience in research and development, there is no problem.
It’s a technical bull, and I deserve to say “sister”.
Two days into the job, Regoll dragged me to the stairwell for a smoke. (Lei Ge is the person in charge of research and development mentioned above, a man from northeast China)
I don’t smoke, so in fact lei brother smokes, I accompany Lei brother chat, inadvertently the topic of the project team android development progress.
Lei said: “Dachun, android terminal progress depends on you.”
I was a little confused, I just entered the job of a novice, in any case to rely on two years of experience is the big bull – magic sister ah, how also not round me ah.
“Also have to rely on xx elder sister (refers to magic elder sister), I have to follow her to learn!” I said.
Lei elder brother vomited mouth smoke, want to speak but stop, patted my shoulder to say: “hi, later you understand.”
Three, magic sister
Magic sister’s original name I have forgotten, only remember the little girl in the early sixties, quite thin, not much, often tied a ponytail sitting in the corner of the code.
She doesn’t usually communicate much with other people.
If it was just that, she wouldn’t have such a special name.
“Sister Magic can do magic.”
More than one person has spoken to me about it.
Magic sister, the specific performance of magic is like this:
At work, magic sister’s progress is always behind, ordered down the development task she is always tepid to develop, also not in a hurry.
At work, in the face of a lot of bugs, Magic sister often seems confused, clueless.
However, the magic sister began to show her magic.
The next day at work, magic sister lag progress magically catch up with a lot! Many bugs have also been fixed.
It is so magical that I would like to call it “requirement implementation” or “bug elimination”.
Because of the existence of this “magic”, I heard that shortly before I came, magic sister and lei elder brother had a fierce quarrel. I heard that it was because in a time of interface intermodulation, Android terminal spent a whole half day but failed to tune an interface, and this interface has been verified by IOS terminal is OK.
Communication turns into argument, and argument turns into argument.
Finally Magic sister hit the table and shouted: “I have achieved all the functions! It’s not like it didn’t happen!”
Lei elder brother speechless, therefore give up.
The next day when I went to work, that interface also because of the existence of “magic”, magically completed the development and debugging in android terminal.
For magic sister “magic”, we probably have a vague guess, but there is no real evidence.
Then one night, something changed.
Four, the truth of magic
One night about two weeks after I started.
By 9:30, all the developers were working overtime for the launch that night. In fact, there are only two more serious android bugs left at this point.
And those two bugs are in the module that Magic sister is responsible for.
Therefore, magic sister has become the key to when we can get off work.
Unconsciously, Lei and another colleague has been standing behind the magic sister, to help it sort out the context, trying to speed up the problem.
But things did not change.
Until more than 10 o ‘clock, the two bugs still did not progress.
Lei began to motioned to me. He could also look at the two problems and try to fix the bug.
Before I promised, magic sister suddenly said: “Ok, the problem can be fixed.”
Lei elder brother at that time some surprise, clear this elder sister is under eyelid, even problem reason all did not analyze come out, how had the confidence that can repair suddenly?
I saw magic sister open QQ, received two files were sent over, skillfully on the project of the existing files for a wave of replacement.
Run again, boy, the bug is fixed.
Oh my god!!!!!
No!!!!!
It is a bug removal technique.
The expression of everyone in the office has become very wonderful, lei elder brother’s face has become some ugly.
That night normal online, home from work temporarily do not watch.
Five, the roll of the Time
The next day early in the morning, Lei elder brother actually called me to the corridor, said something to chat with me.
“Dachun, if let you a person independent fight under an Zhuo Duan, have a problem?”
Lei’s question came straight to the point.
I thought about it for a moment and said, “No problem.”
How did I get the courage to work in real development for less than 15 days? From Fish Leong?
No, I put it together.
There are 24 hours in a day, and six hours of deep sleep is more than enough to recharge the body, regardless of what it can handle. At the extreme end of the spectrum, five hours is just about enough.
This calculation is certainly wrong and unhealthy, but it has been proven, and it has been proven by me.
I got up at 7 o ‘clock, washed and went out, and returned home at 10 o ‘clock in the evening. Most of the time, I was in a state of highly concentrated thinking, learning and working.
The commuting time was one hour each, but it was also a rare time for study. Kindle and mobile phone videos were all ways for me to absorb knowledge crazily.
By the time I get home at 10 p.m., I’m usually “blindsided” and take a few moments to understand what my daughter-in-law is saying to me.
After showering and relaxing for a while, MOST of the time I turn on my computer and study until 1 or 2 am, when I hook up and lie down to sleep.
Over the course of a dozen days, I had actually become very familiar with the company’s “Android” code.
Objectively speaking, this code style confusion, code bloated, irresponsible reference to a large number of unknown third-party libraries, is not suitable for the first real project as a novice.
But perhaps thanks to the quality of the code on the project, it didn’t take me too long to feel like I had a handle on it.
Whenever a requirement came in, I was able to complete most of the requirements very quickly and during working hours.
Even if I met a problem, I would think about it and find a solution until after midnight, hardly affecting the progress of the project.
That’s why I had the confidence to say “no problem” when Lei asked me about it.
Six, magic sister was fired
Not long after Lei and I finished chatting, the boss appeared in the r&d room with a black face.
Magic sister was called to the next office, 10 minutes later, magic sister returned to the r & D room with tears on his face back to his desk, silently crying.
Magic got fired.
And the speed of light entry similar, in the “house treasure company” the same rapid departure, the handover of work only a day time, when the day off magic sister has completed the departure procedures.
On the day of magic elder sister’s departure, Lei elder brother had an important job.
Was to remotely assist and witness Magic’s boyfriend delete the project code on his computer.
It turns out that magic sister’s “magic” is her high-tech boyfriend, also an Android research and development.
Every night after work, magic sister’s boyfriend will help her complete the development progress, repair problems.
Unlike the rest of us object-oriented programming, Magic programming for her boyfriend is definitely more magical.
However, the fact that someone else owns the company’s code has clearly rubbed the boss the wrong way.
But look at it another way.
It is also my appearance, let the boss and lei elder brother to magic sister tolerance further reduced.
So, you could say THAT MAGIC was taken by me.
Magic sister walk that day, MY mood is very complex, a little ashamed, but also a little look forward to.
7. Your first raise
The afternoon of Magic sister’s departure, I was also called to the boss’s office.
In addition to the resignation of Magic sister, she also told me that she was going to give me a salary increase from 2K to 3K from next month.
To tell you the truth, I am very happy. It is not only that I earn an extra thousand yuan a month, but more importantly that I successfully enter the industry and get some recognition from the industry.
At the thought that I would shoulder the development of the project “Anzhuodan” by myself, I felt very excited and realized that the sky was wide and there was much I could do.
But the excitement and blind confidence lasted only three days, and the project team hired another Android developer.
This is a boy with 3 years’ experience and a monthly salary of 8K.
I call him the Bright God.
On mingshen’s first day at work, he pulled down the project’s code and lamented, “Fuck! What the hell is that?”