Just resigned from Baidu, a lot of friends asked me why, not black not praise not extreme, objective review ~
After the post Bar incident, unconsciously black Baidu has become the “correct values” of the public opinion, as baidu employees, our hearts are actually five (MEI) taste (SHA) (Gan) Chen (JUE).
As a large listed factory with tens of thousands of employees, its own complexity has been difficult to control and understand. It is difficult for the factory director to know how hard a younger brother usually works, and it is even harder for the younger brother to know how much pressure the factory director has in the board of directors and investors. What you see, apart from the cattle trying to blow out, is the accumulated darkness that has been exposed, and of course the latter is far more influential than the former.
In big factory after more and more have the nature of the state-owned enterprises, such as complicated management structure, layers of reporting relationships, impressive is the communication will each quarter, this is a by the factory director to each big director’s meeting, and then send to each manager, director of manager then sent the younger brother of the following conference spirit, also with some strategy, slogan,” Wolf sex “, “attack time, too many not to return” what, after the meeting actually have examination questions, check whether convey in place. Is it quite dang central government to issue guidelines and red documents, and then learn to understand the meaning of writing feelings step by step
. Others are basically common problems of large enterprises, such as serious KPI orientation; Cross-department communication is difficult, the two leaders to brush face to promote, private communication again clear, do not send email copy boss is equal to what did not say, etc.
. Others are basically common problems of large enterprises, such as serious KPI orientation; Cross-department communication is difficult, the two leaders to brush face to promote, private communication again clear, do not send email copy boss is equal to what did not say, etc.
In terms of technology, Baidu is said to be the Huangpu Military Academy of technology, where there is a very large voice and clear promotion route, but there are also some problems. It was a T-sequence, and we all jokingly called it a “POWERPOINT sequence,” because it could go something like this: A technical difficulty in general, code quality, availability, general technical projects, can be a cool Fried PPT qualities of days, and then combined with the boss to vigorously push, departments carry on, become a prominent merits when reporting on activities, and behind, is a line after the mandatory access developers complain, helpless and lower efficiency. Strong presentation skills are sometimes more important than strong technical skills, which is why a lot of low-profile talent is lost. Introverts who are really good at technology are not in demand here, and bosses who don’t know how well the code is implemented can only rely on powerpoint presentations.
Because business development is one’s own job, I can’t say how many pages I have written and how many controls I have realized when I am promoted to report on my job. I need to prove my technical ability by technical projects outside the business, so I always have to think of a Topic to do it, which leads to a consequence: making wheels. Each group has a set of components with the same function, and they are made and maintained during the intermittent time of business development. It is difficult to achieve the quality level, so it is not easy to promote to other groups, so they continue to build their own wheels
Of course, there are some internal company-level SDKS that are enforced or not enforced for various departments to access. There are a lot of peers private chat asked me: you Baidu XXX SDK this API how to use ah? The document? What if it doesn’t fit? And MRC eggs! What if I Crash? What a rush! Please help me! In fact, when we use it internally, it is also like this – digression: after understanding, we found that this is not limited to Baidu’s common problem. I understand that a company provides SDK, which should be the face of the company’s technical capabilities, because it is directly facing the majority of developers, and high-level engineers should be sent to design architecture and API. In fact, on the contrary, ask who wrote this SDK?” Oh, this SDK was written by a former intern who left, and now I’m going to maintain it, in order to maintain API compatibility we’re not going to change it. “Or” The guy who wrote the Android SDK learned objective-C by the way.”
Maybe it’s the opportunity to build wheels that allows technology to grow? I don’t know.
There is also an experience, in Baidu to mix well, only need to remember three points:
- With a good boss
- With a good boss
- With a good boss
The github.com/forkingdog open source team was also started with the support of the boss at that time, but the good times didn’t last long. There were few commit recently, for reasons you know… Of course, you also need to have a reliable way of working.
Of course, my departure has nothing to do with baidu’s “black-hearted values” in the public opinion. After all, my colleagues in the department are all ordinary people who work hard under this system and yearn for promotion and salary increase. Here, I met like-minded people. We studied technology together, got to the bottom of the matter, and focused on the efficient development of UI and business. Compared with the beginning, the efficiency has been doubled. Considering it’s been 4 years of iOS development, it’s time to do something more technical, or all the architectural ideas, low-level knowledge, and dark arts you’ve accumulated won’t be useful.
During the period when I was retained by HR, I talked with managers of many departments and big names in Baidu and became a “senior iOS chat engineer”.
. Everyone is busy with their own business, sometimes even amazed that Baidu even has this product. It can be seen that a big company’s sense of crisis, constantly looking for direction, layout, can tell me when the second, but can not say that we have no
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. Everyone is busy with their own business, sometimes even amazed that Baidu even has this product. It can be seen that a big company’s sense of crisis, constantly looking for direction, layout, can tell me when the second, but can not say that we have no
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In the past two years since I came to Baidu, I have experienced the ups and downs of Baidu’s stock price. What reflects on me is the glory and bleak of bonus, from the crazy recruitment and interview to the frozen HC manpower shortage. In the end, is it really those who want to be washed who leave?
The Internet is changing so fast, how high the peak is how deep the trough. What about the oft-uttered phrase, “Embrace change,” a slogan wrapped around positive values that has an unspoken essence: “The law of the jungle.” You have to be strong, hardworking or smart to work happily here
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