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Text: Level 5 Engineer and career development

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Representative question: some people want to go deep into technology, but feel that if they can’t be an officer in the unit, there will be no future.

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The physics world has a professional evaluation system with five levels, each varying tenfold in ability and contribution. The same analogy applies to your profession.

Engineer Level 5

Level 5: able to solve problems independently and complete engineering work; Level 4: Can guide and lead others to accomplish more influential work; Level 3: Able to design and implement products independently and achieve success in the market; Level 2: Can design and realize others can not make products, that is to say, his role is difficult to replace; Level one: Start an industry

Five, work independently

The owner of Jd.com asked him to make a tool to find readers who repeatedly help their female (male) friends buy books. He should know:

  • Who to ask for data, how to confirm that two people might be boyfriend and girlfriend, and often buy books.
  • What kind of development tools to use in the JINGdong environment.
  • What are the basic functions of the tool in order to facilitate customer use?

Difficulty evaluation: This level is not hard to get. Less than this level, not qualified engineer.

Four, lead

Title: Intelligent engineer. Characteristic reason: Different goals lead to different solutions. Criteria: How best to solve a real problem of scale.

Three, product

Title: Product Manager Standard: Can lead a team to produce profitable products. Requirements: Involve marketing judgment and marketing ability. Difficulty evaluation: Good engineering literacy, open-minded, willing to accept all kinds of opinions and suggestions, through efforts, can do. Result: Income and social status are not low.

Second, the unique

Don’t be too hard on yourself.

A, founder

Difficulty rating: This is probably a little far away from us.

Zero, the fairy

Reference standard: Einstein

This article conclusion

Answer the question of “background of this article”. Question: worried about confused direction and wrong future? Answer: The future lies in upgrading. Reason: between people, is generally the difference of order of magnitude.