On October 25, 2020, Bytedance held OpenDay. Kang Kang is very happy to have passed the two rounds of screening and made it to the final list after applying at random (he didn’t even add the activity group ~). Here I have to sigh at the importance of the 985 brand of our school. Together with me, I come to the Shanghai headquarters of Byte University, my dear classmates majoring in computer science and a large number of friends from Shanghai Normal University, Fudan University and Tongji University.

I. Activity process

This activity has made a great innovation and breakthrough in form, with the goal of collecting “printing”, connecting each link of the activity.

After arriving at the byte headquarters, No. 1999, Yishan Road, Minhang by chartered bus, the students were required to sign in and get the activity manual first.

The first task: draw a random task card, find the location on the card and take a picture. Kangkang went to the dining hall on the 15th floor, and two minutes later he had a taste of the office environment — free and delicious dining hall, comfortable and tidy coffee shop, well-equipped recreation room, gym and yoga room.

Second task: “Pristine land” listen to a lecture. First came an advertising system team leader, who introduced byteDance’s development and future vision. He was followed by a senior mobile engineer who gave a brief introduction to byte’s technical architecture and gave his advice on technology accumulation and romance

The third task: “Weird talk”. This session is an interesting conversation with five interviewers from different departments. He has prepared some interesting questions for each “brave person” to battle with or talk about technology and life. At the end of each interview, you will receive a “stamp” and, if you have prepared your resume, a PASS card to go up to the 15th floor for a “mock interview” with a technical interviewer. Kang Kang, who went to get soy sauce, did not ask for a PASS card, but talked to four people before and after and “cheated” them of their stamps.

Task four: mock interview. At this stage, the interviewer becomes more professional and talks about more technical topics, such as the difference between cookies and sessions, how sessions are stored consistently in a distributed environment, and handwritten SQL statements (stop cursing, I’ll fix them later tonight). In addition, they also put forward suggestions to revise the resume, such as: write more specific project experience, technical sections should be more targeted, do not mix.

The fifth link: exquisite “afternoon tea”. There is no “stamp” in this place, after all, eating is not the task. After being lectured by the interviewers, we returned to the 2nd floor hungry and enjoyed a delicious afternoon tea. During the afternoon tea session, the “contestants” were: grilled sausage, chicken rice flower, rice cake fried chicken, meat muffin, pizza, coffee and so on. After a wave of “bandits into the village” type of enjoyment, Kangkang and his friends together to exchange new and experience, and in front of HR little sister praised byte food and beauty ~

The sixth part: exchange prizes and group photo. Kang Kang by virtue of innate “shameless”, collected ten “printing” (even beyond the most high-grade reward 9 printing requirements), from the beautiful HR little sister received a beautiful peripheral + a theme canvas bag. The group photo is suspected of infringing the right of portrait, so it will not be displayed here.

2. Activity experience

Through this activity, Byte left kangkang three impressions: first-class technical atmosphere, comfortable working environment and vibrant corporate culture.

There is no need to talk about the praise of byte, but how to receive the olive branch of byte is the problem worth thinking about at present.

Kang Kang is now a junior, and will go out to cast his internship resume next semester. His favorite companies are Byte, Meituan, ant and so on. These companies differ in their hiring styles, but what they have in common is a demand for excellence. As one of the mock interviewers once said, the interview is about how qualified you are for the job, not how many percent of questions you got right. In Kang kang’s opinion, simply examining the number of frameworks he has mastered does not fully reflect his potential when it comes to university enrollment. Large companies have enough resources and time to cultivate a university’s recruitment, so it is more important to pay attention to the candidate’s future promotion space. This may also be a big reason why byte, and even many big companies, look at algorithms and even intelligence questions in the interview

Another experience of this activity is that the first Leader in the lecture emphasized the benefits of “long term”. This can also be interpreted as learning to delay gratification. As the ancients said, “put the long line, catch the big fish”, byte is currently not small, if listed, compared with its pomp and this year’s “ant”. But they are still in the upswing, so the harvest will have to be postponed for three to five years. Do you see what that means? Add bytes now and in three or five years you’ll be financially free.

In addition, when choosing offers in the future, some small companies may offer less working hours but more money. But their corporate governance can be messy and technological growth slow. In the first few years of a small company, you may make more money than your classmates in a big company, but three or five years later, you may feel regret, perhaps because the company is teetering due to improper management, or because it is impossible to change jobs due to shallow skills.

That’s where the messy brain goes.