From the perspective of the whole history, compared with various traditional occupations that have existed for a long time, the Internet industry is still in its youth, full of vitality and hope. A group of young people who have grown up with this industry have a deeper sense of this era and occupation.
What is their resonance with the world? How do they grow in their positions? What anxieties and passions do they have?
Youth day approaching, we had an interview with nine iQIYI technology, products, design students, among them there are just hired young engineers, product managers, have already grown up those senior technology, products, visual designers, from their answers, we tried to describe the growth of young people in iQIYI path.
What surprised us most in the interview were the students who joined iQiyi through school recruitment. Most of them have been senior users of IQiyi for a long time. They came to the peach Factory from the young campus. They gained mentors, friends and recognition here, and gradually grew up here and found their own value and love.
Xiao Hao, algorithm engineer, IQiyi: The ability to solve new problems innovatively is particularly important
Xiao Hao entered iQiyi as an intern in his second year of graduate school, and then officially joined iQiyi as a student of the school. Currently, I am mainly responsible for the research and development of video quality improvement algorithm.
1. Why did you choose to become an engineer?
In general, because of three things: fate, interest and character; I studied communication engineering as an undergraduate and information technology as a postgraduate. I have a down-to-earth personality, which is very suitable for technology. Therefore, I have never thought of doing anything else since I started my study.
2. Why do you choose IQiyi among so many offers?
I agree with the brand iQiyi very much. I often use iQiyi products when I study. I think the design of website and APP are based on my own aesthetic point, and the content and experience are also of high quality.
When I was in the second year of graduate school, I had an internship in IQiyi. I felt the atmosphere in the group was good, my colleagues were excellent, and the work content was attractive to me, and I could learn a lot. After I gradually understood the values of the company, I also felt that I agree with them. They are not particularly strong and gentle, so I chose to stay in IQiyi.
3. What qualities do you think young engineers should cultivate most?
Iqiyi is at the forefront of video quality algorithm research and development in the industry. Therefore, there is no ready-made experience and materials for many problems, such as how to ensure the stability of AI video quality enhancement algorithm to meet large-scale cloud applications. Therefore, the ability to solve new problems innovatively is very important. At present, the most important quality I should cultivate is to gradually form a methodology to solve problems in the current field. When encountering unknown problems, I can use it to explore the nature of the problem, so as to find the best solution and avoid blind attempts.
4. How did you grow during your time in IQiyi and how did you achieve it?
I think there are two main aspects of growth as a R&D engineer. On the one hand, technical growth, including the establishment of video quality improvement algorithm system, expansion of skill spectrum, understanding of real business data, etc., on the other hand, comprehensive quality growth, including the way of thinking, communication ability, time management ability, vision, etc.
The first point is that the leader gives us enough trust, so that fresh graduates can also undertake important tasks, and attaches great importance to our training, giving us a lot of room for growth. The second is to set high standards for work and pursue high-quality results. The third point is to keep learning and summarizing. Iqiyi itself provides many systematic professional courses for us. I also arrange time to study the book list and courses recommended by the leader and the team. The fourth is to adhere to the long-termism, the pursuit of the ultimate work results, video quality enhancement and other specific work practices of AI pre-processing algorithms have better verified the effectiveness of such long-term and systematic problem-solving values and methodology.
Iqiyi Algorithm engineer Sally: Problem-oriented, avoid blind attempts and false “innovation”
Sally has participated in many projects since she was recruited by the university, including NLP lexical analysis, international station machine translation and so on. Work is currently being done on search relevance.
1. Why do you choose IQiyi among so many offers?
First of all, I value the working atmosphere and content. At that time, I had a very happy conversation with the second interviewer and later my leader. He invited me to join the search NLP group, and I kept this in mind. Later, I also found that my choice was right, and my work was very pleasant. Of course, I have always been a member of iQiyi, and I think it is a young and promising company.
2. What qualities do you think young engineers should develop most?
Ability to solve practical problems, work efficiency and emotional intelligence. Practical problems sometimes do not need very novel methods to solve, but you need to find a special solution in the process of analyzing the problem. If you do not realize this, you will fall into the situation of blind trial and “innovation”. Work efficiency is linked to time management, which is a very important part of work. I remember that the company has training and courses related to time management, which requires planning and prioritizing. Noise-canceling headphones are very important to me.
3. What’s your growth during working in IQiyi? How was it achieved?
There are a lot of things, such as code skills, the ability to find and solve real problems, and a perspective on problems. The improvement of code ability includes that the code style is acquired by constantly reading excellent codes accumulated over a long period of time, and colleagues will also discuss some interesting algorithm problems over lunch. In fact, the growth of insight and logical thinking is due to the cultivation and space given by the leader. The sense of achievement gained from solving problems is the motivation to continue to discover and solve problems. As an algorithm engineer, I often deal with architecture students and product students, and it is interesting to see business problems from their perspective.
4. How to maintain learning ability?
One is self-drive and the other is external drive. Self-drive is a person’s mindset of wanting to improve and become better, and external drive is an atmosphere to discuss innovation with friends and colleagues. For me, I will constantly encounter problems and challenges in my work, and I must keep learning if I want to do things well. I will share algorithms, codes and business within the team every week. When I am bored, I will read papers by reading questions.
Peixin, front-end engineer of IQiyi: Study your favorite technology in a comfortable environment
Peixin is a front-end r&d engineer recruited by a famous university. Like Xiao Hao, he was attracted by the simple technical atmosphere here during his internship and joined IQiyi directly after graduation. He believes that the primary responsibility of a front-end engineer is to fulfill business development requirements on time and with high quality. In addition, thinking and learning are also necessary for him as an engineer, so as to constantly improve his technical level. Finally, cross-team communication should be emphasized in the work.
1. Why did you choose to become an engineer?
First of all, I choose to be an engineer out of interest. Since I graduated from high school, I have made it clear that I want to be an engineer in the future, and I have been working towards this direction. I majored in communication engineering as an undergraduate. I came to IQiyi as an intern by chance. I liked the working atmosphere here so much that I stayed here. Meanwhile, engineering is a lucrative job. So I am in the material life to be satisfied, doing what I like.
2. Why do you choose IQiyi among so many offers?
The good experience during my internship is the most important reason for me to stay in IQiyi after graduation. In my opinion, the working atmosphere of IQiyi is youthful and energetic. The employees here are all young, active and full of innovative thinking. Brainstorming with everyone can always spark new sparks, so as to accomplish the task twice with half the effort. Just as IQiyi always advocates the concept of “simple thinking and simple doing”, working here is simple and pleasant, and the communication between employees is simple and pure, providing me with a comfortable environment to study my favorite technology.
3. What do you think is the biggest advantage of young people?
First, young engineers dare to create and are not bound by the chain of “may fail”, so they have infinite possibilities in technology research and development. Their innovation ability is also relatively strong, and the company has a high acceptance of innovation in technology. Therefore, many new ideas come from young people.
Second, they don’t have the “baggage of historical experience” to keep up with the pace of technological change and apply it to their daily work.
Third, they love learning, positive, strong learning ability, learning energy is more abundant, at the same time, they are optimistic, not easy to be disturbed by the outside world;
Finally, most young people entering the workforce do not have families, so they have less “baggage” and relatively more time and energy to focus on their career.
4. What qualities and abilities do you think young engineers should develop most?
First of all, should put an end to impetuous psychology, down-to-earth work; Secondly, we should learn to take responsibility. If there is a mistake in the process of work, we should bravely admit it and actively correct it. Thirdly, I should cultivate my team spirit, especially for engineers. One person may realize the business from zero to one, but the ability of a team in business development is unmatched by one person. Finally, to train the ability of learning and summarizing, personally, I recommend learning way is to broaden their vision technology, and then they are interested in depth, and improve themselves in the direction of the technology for engineer at the same time, after the project finished checking summary work are especially important, it can help us to accumulate experience and improve their business level and work efficiency.
5. What is your growth during working in IQiyi and how do you achieve it?
The first is the growth of technology, which benefits from the accumulation of work experience and continuous learning, learning from the experience of others, as well as the guidance given by colleagues and predecessors. Secondly, the improvement of structured thinking ability, which is particularly important in the work environment, is reflected in the expression ability of team communication, which can realize effective communication between colleagues. Finally, in terms of interpersonal communication, I have gained many like-minded colleagues and friends in IQiyi. All of them are of the same age as me and have the same interests. It is easier for young people to have sparks of innovation when they get along with each other.
Stephanie, product manager of IQiyi: The accumulation of knowledge should be deep before it is broad
Stephanie joined IQiyi after graduation and has been working in iQiyi since then. She has become a team leader in her own right. At present, she is mainly responsible for leading the team to design the product system architecture and scheme of overseas members.
1. What qualities and abilities do you think students who make products need to continue to accumulate over time?
First of all, it is necessary to constantly strengthen their understanding of the industry and professional quality of products. The Internet industry is constantly developing and changing. Students who make products or technologies should keep learning and making progress in their career and keep their sensitivity to the industry. At the same time, young students should establish their own method system to quickly accept and master knowledge, which can help them quickly integrate into the team and business when facing a new working environment. Finally, keep an open mind. Only by embracing change can you grow more positively.
2. For young product managers, do you think depth or breadth of knowledge is more important?
I think the depth of knowledge is more important, or we should pursue the depth before the breadth;
For example, we often meet candidates in the interview process who have tried many different jobs in just a few years. Product manager’s personal precipitation is, however, needs the accumulation of time, you may need many years of work experience in order to understand the business needs, their own role, the core of the user demands, and what can I give the commercial value of the company is, as the growth of the age, the more you need the precipitation as their competitiveness in the industry; When you reach a certain level of depth and then go for breadth, it’s natural, because you already have the ability to integrate.
3. What support does IQiyi provide to young people?
First of all, IQiyi provides a lot of opportunities for young people. Many positions offer great development space for young people. For example, in our overseas department, because the department has been established for a short time and there are fewer staff, everyone will undertake many important and challenging jobs, including young people who just entered the department. Iqiyi employees and owners also encourage young people to provide good ideas and solutions for the team; Secondly, I think iQiyi’s training is very perfect. No matter for business or management courses, I benefit a lot every time I attend training.
4. What are the differences between the new generation of product people? What surprises did working with the youth product students bring you?
The new generation of young people are excellent. For example, the young people we recruit every year have good learning ability and basic knowledge. In addition, today’s young people have been exposed to Internet products since they were very young, so they have a lot of understanding of Internet products, which will provide a lot of fresh ideas for our team.
IQIYI, of course, also attaches great importance to cultivation of young people, we have a “malt” for young talent training scheme, similar to the GuanPeiSheng, young people after entering iQIYI can participate in job rotation, experience products, operation, data analysis and so on different position, the cross-team communication is very conducive to the growth of young people.
5. Advice for young people who want to go down the product path?
Be clear about whether you choose to work on a product because of your love and purpose. With the expansion of the scale of the industry, the product team is responsible for more and more content, and the requirements for the personal quality of students engaged in product work are getting higher and higher. Innovation awareness, industry sensitivity, data sensitivity and logical ability have become essential skills for product workers. Therefore, if you want to develop in this industry, you still need the persistent efforts of young students.
In addition to the engineers, product managers and designers who came to IQiyi directly from the campus, we also talked with some students who came to iQiyi after working for several years. Some of them are not satisfied with a job that is too comfortable and want to challenge themselves, while others are attracted by the more youthful and simple working atmosphere. Having joined iQiyi for more than 3 years, they have become mentors for the new generation of young people and have made great achievements in their professional fields. From them, we can clearly see the growth path of young people in iQiyi.
Working in technology is similar to falling in love
Emma is the development engineer of iQiyi mobile terminal player, and is currently mainly responsible for the construction of interactive video system.
1. What qualities and abilities do you think young engineers need to accumulate over time?
In terms of quality, I think technical work is similar to the spirit of love. There should be a feeling of “the program beats you thousands of times and still stays with the program like the first love”. Single-mindness and patience are the most necessary when you are in love, because the longer the time, the more people may quit halfway, and those who can stick to it must be true love.
Primarily on the ability of innovation ability, innovation ability a lot of people will say young people stronger, but not always, actually increases with time gradually accumulate experience rich, the technical understanding of the industry has reached a certain height, this time you will find a lot of problems and opportunities, to create these problems and opportunities there will be a big harvest, Innovation capacity will increase accordingly.
2. What support does IQiyi provide to young engineers?
A lot of. For example, IQiyi has always provided professional training courses with relevant knowledge in depth and breadth. Secondly, our creative patent system, with easy access and financial incentives, allows us to give full play to our creativity. In addition, our unified document platform enables us to query all the technologies we want to know as long as they are not classified, which provides great convenience for our learning and knowledge accumulation.
3. What is different about the new generation of engineers? What surprises do you get from working with young engineers?
All of them are very energetic and have active thinking. They are also very receptive to new technologies. They can often locate and solve problems quickly in a different way of thinking. In the cooperation at work, I also found that today’s young people are also very hard-working, which to some extent subverts many claims that “young people can’t bear hardship”.
4. Age anxiety is prevalent in the Internet industry, what do you think?
In fact, I have seen a lot of very senior R & D, soaked in the industry for many years, the understanding of the system is really very deep, but now the whole environment of anxiety is relatively strong. But I think when it is never too late to start learning something new, I have friends whose mothers after retirement began to learn drawing, a 70 – year – old painting when I was very good, I now feel myself was very young, may to the 50 s and 60 s anxiety it’ll consider age, it is more a state of mind, which day I feel old is really old.
5. Advice for young people who want to go down the technology path?
Take the initiative to do some output, such as write more patents, do more internal and external training, because people must have at least ten times the input to make the corresponding output, forcing their output will have greater progress.
Iqiyi Technical engineer Xiaopeng: Keep a good body and curiosity
As a very senior technical engineer of iQiyi, Xiaopeng is mainly engaged in intelligent production related work.
1. What qualities and abilities do you think young engineers need to accumulate over time?
First, identify your goals at each stage of your career growth. From the beginning of our career, we aim to finish every task conscientiously. Later, we aim to lead projects or even teams independently. These goals guide us in our career path.
Secondly, to have the ability to persevere, in the process of achieving the goal of unremitting efforts;
Finally, we should keep our learning ability, because most of the new knowledge in the process of work is supplemented by our independent learning.
2. For young engineers, do you think depth or breadth of knowledge is more important?
Both depth and breadth are certainly the most ideal, of course, this realization is to pay a lot of time and energy;
For young students who just entered the job, under the premise of limited time and energy, it is more important to carry out in-depth accumulation in the early stage. First of all, the division of labor of large companies is very clear, usually need to do every job specialized, refined, so in-depth accumulation can help them better qualified for the job; Secondly, the pursuit of the breadth of knowledge just after graduation is likely to make them poor at the technical level, which is not conducive to the clear career development goals and direction of these young engineers, but also likely to make them confused. So, first “deep” and then “wide” is the way I recommend.
3. What support does IQiyi provide to young engineers?
First of all, iQiyi has a “mentor system” for new employees. By assigning mentors to new employees, they can help them get familiar with the technology and business of their department as soon as possible. Secondly, iQiyi’s training is of great help to the improvement of the technical ability of the students who just graduated, and can also help them expand their knowledge base. Finally, iQiyi encourages innovation and reasonable trial and error, which is of great help to the psychological and technical growth of young engineers.
4. What is different about the new generation of engineers? What surprises do you get from working with young engineers?
This generation of young people grew up in the explosive development of the Internet, they have active ideas, but also a lot of fresh ideas; Secondly, their pursuit of new things enables them to have a better understanding of innovation and be more daring and willing to try and make mistakes. Finally, they are good at and brave to show their own personality and personal value. For example, the young students I worked with not only injected a lot of fresh energy into our working environment, but also were enthusiastic and active in their work. They could devote themselves to the realization of a technical solution from 0 to 1. I really appreciate them.
5. Age anxiety is prevalent in the Internet industry, what do you think?
From their own point of view, to solve the age anxiety, first of all, to keep the enthusiasm of learning; Secondly, we can ignore the objective increase of age with the mentality of youth. Finally, we should have a sense of goal and enrich our psychology with the sense of achievement that the goal has been achieved. When our sense of life value is satisfied, the anxiety brought by the growth of age will be naturally relieved. In our spare time, we should pay attention to our health and keep in good shape, which is also of great benefit to exercise our ability to persevere.
6. Advice for young people who want to go down the technology path?
Every young man who wants to develop in technology should first make clear whether he is suitable for this job, that is, whether he loves the technology industry. Only when your job can bring you satisfaction and sense of achievement, can you do it well. Secondly, every engineer should continue to learn, accumulate and settle, constantly expand their knowledge base and strengthen their technical ability. Finally, it is necessary to make detailed planning and thinking for their career development route, so as to avoid confusion and keep enthusiasm for new technical knowledge. The technical industry is constantly developing and updating, so engineers should know how to advance with The Times.
Durian: Insight into the needs of others is the most important quality
The main work content of Liulian team is to provide users with video creation tools based on the characteristics of IQiyi. For example, in cooperation with “Taonju”, we launched UGC creation activities such as “Catch the Egg” shooting game and “Taonju” dubbing activity, so that users can express their love for IP through secondary creation after watching dramas.
1. What qualities and abilities do you think the product students have accumulated over time?
I personally think the job of product manager is very interesting. Some people think that the entry threshold of product manager is low, but the requirement of personal skill tree is higher. In my opinion, product manager is a “converter”, you need to collect user information, young people may pay more attention to their own ideas, but as a product, the insight into the needs of others is the most important, so empathy is the first important quality; Secondly, learn to ask questions, cut to the requirements of the other party, let the other party feel better after talking with you. Through language, text and data, I can deeply understand the real demands of users and what kind of products they need, which is the ability and experience that needs to be accumulated continuously as a product.
2. For young product students, do you think depth or breadth of knowledge is more important?
From a product manager’s perspective, it’s both hands, both hands hard. When it comes to empathizing with someone else’s needs, you need an equal amount of knowledge to create products that are empathetic. Because the breadth of knowledge can help us communicate, and the depth of knowledge can improve efficiency, we should know more people and think more, so that we can achieve empathy with others to a greater extent.
3. What support does IQiyi provide to young people?
First of all, the volume of IQiyi provides us with a product platform with a huge sample of users. Every day, a large number of users pour into you, so that we can more comprehensively contact and refine the needs of users. In addition, iQiyi’s diverse working atmosphere is also very friendly to young people, enabling us to contact partners of different ages, regions, cultural backgrounds and educational backgrounds, and bump into different possibilities together. This is a group of natural users and demand pool. It is also the most valuable part for the growth of the product. I came into contact with many regions and people in IQiyi, which also helped me to expand my understanding of different people.
4. What are the differences of the new generation of products? What have you been surprised about working with them?
The greatest feeling is “personality”, a new generation of junior partner is unable to use a “00” after this tag to sum up, each person has their own unique personality and values, let us in the process of cooperation constantly to understand and learn new things, also let us these “old man” grown in the ~ for the product, is a surprise and also challenge. In the process of product design, we will contact many more detailed user needs and generate new ideas.
Qi Lele, visual designer of IQiyi: In the face of doubt, we can stick to our original aspiration
Qi Lele is a designer of IQiyi, mainly responsible for the visual design work related to key IP interactive gameplay.
1. What qualities and abilities do you think designers develop over time?
Quality advocates designers have the pursuit of professional perfection, continuous breakthrough, the courage to try and challenge, in the face of doubt can stick to the original intention, do not reduce the design quality standards, no matter when, confident generous, positive;
In terms of ability, I quote liang Sicheng, “A good designer must have the mind of a philosopher, the vision of a sociologist, the precision of an engineer, the sensitivity of a psychologist, the insight of a writer and the expression of an artist.” In short, over time, through continuous precipitation, excellent designers will have a solid foundation of art, independent thinking, efficient execution, innovation, communication and expression skills.
2. What support does IQiyi provide to young people?
In terms of professional design, the company will organize training courses related to design, whether it is to share methods of internal lecturers or to invite excellent external designers to communicate with each other. By attending relevant courses, the depth and breadth of professional can be effectively expanded. Secondly, the company products by setting technology committee, from the two parts of the professional ability and general quality clear set capacity model of the different function, more clearly define individual follow-up development goals and direction, need refinement ability in professional, convenient and rapid alignment professional development channels, have a positive role on personal growth and promote; Finally, the company’s unified document platform provides convenience for cross-department cooperation and learning. Any content that needs to be understood can be found, which is convenient for individual learning and knowledge accumulation as well as team management.
3. What are the differences of the new generation of design students? What have you been surprised about working with them?
There are post-00s partners in the team. I can see their strong appeal, youthful energy and burning passion for design. I will be affected and influenced by them, and I can see infinite possibilities in them. Working with them keeps me full of expectations and new visions for the content and projects I am responsible for. In addition, the new generation of design students have a strong fighting ability and a strong sense of responsibility, which I will continue to learn and draw lessons from.
4. What advice would you give to young people who want to go down this path?
Do not stop learning, seize every opportunity to learn new knowledge, the company provides a good resource and platform, to seize the opportunity to constantly improve their professional ability.
Zetao, product manager of IQiyi: Cultivate the long board instead of reinforcing the weak board all the time
Zetao is a product manager of IQiyi. At present, he is mainly responsible for the optimization of basic experience products and the customization and construction of event products.
1. What qualities and abilities do you think youth product students have accumulated over time?
“Insight, judgment, execution.”
— Corresponding to the three important processes of demand discovery, decision making and implementation.
Insight: The main business has been the Red sea, continuous innovation is particularly important, to be able to find the breakthrough point in the difficult breakthrough.
Judgment: At any time can be rational and logical judgment, especially when doing new business but also learn to break away.
Execution: in particular, first-line products should be implemented with great effort. The driving force is the ability to be used in different industries for life. People who have many ideas but lack practical spirit are not suitable for making products.
2. For young product students, what qualities do you think are important?
“Curious, competitive, patient.”
Curiosity: really like to do products, really like this industry, will have fun, will have the driving force.
Competitive: High achievement motivation determines how much effort you are willing to put into tackling difficult projects.
Patience: beware of arrogance and impetuosity. In the case of increasing volume in the product industry, it is more necessary to be patient and plow deeply under a track.
3. What support does IQiyi provide to young product students?
It’s about knowledge and trial and error. Mature internal communication documents and enterprise internal training mechanism, so that novice product students can accumulate knowledge and experience comprehensively and steadily; As well as a lot of internal innovation opportunities, there can be a lot of trial and error opportunities, as long as there is an idea, a goal and willing to endure hardship, can have a rich harvest.
4. What are the differences of the new generation of products? What have you been surprised about working with them?
A new generation of products are indigenous to the Internet generation z classmates more young people, more understand young users, such as in the “green you 3” at the beginning of the broadcast, we planned the accidentally green series inventory activities, the products of our group students with interns will play a leading role, firmly grasp the fans mentality, activity did weibo ones, spread effect is very good.
5. Some advice for young people who want to go down the product path?
Pay attention to the industry, and develop their ability and habit of deep thinking, do not just pull the car not to see the road;
Cultivate and play their own long board, do not always make up the weak board.
conclusion
Young people are full of vigor and vitality, like the sun at eight or nine in the morning. Young people have always been entrusted with the best expectations, but also bearing the future of a company, industry and society.
In the course of communication over the past few days, we were deeply moved by the enthusiasm and persistence of iQiyi young people. To seek and to love; They are unconventional and innovative. In iQiyi, the “youth”, “simple” and youthful atmosphere naturally blend together. We can no longer use a simple label to represent this group of people, they use their own growth, write down their own definition of the word “youth”.