Chapter 19 Am I a big boss?

Chapter 19 Am I a big boss?

Chapter 19 Am I a big boss?
For several former team leaders and key members of the R&D department of Weiku Electronics, things have been rather strange recently. Of course, not in a bad way, but in a good way.

How should I put it? It’s the same thing, but it feels much easier now than before… Especially for the backbones of the software team, it used to be very difficult to modify the built-in interface of the system. We often worked for several days and ended up with a piece of shit…

But now I can just look at the design requirements and make it naturally. The whole process is very smooth and the results are pretty good.

This is the feeling of the seven or eight old employees, but for the dozen or so newly recruited R&D employees, it is another matter.

Fang Zhixin is a fresh graduate from a second-tier university's computer science department. Because his alma mater was not very good and he had no solid experience during his time at school, his technical skills are not impressive.

How to say it, he is just... very ordinary!
Naturally, it was difficult for him to find a good job. The big Internet companies would not want a half-baked person like him. Some small Internet companies or companies in other related industries thought he was okay, but the salary they offered was too low, with most starting salaries being only around three thousand.

Last month he went to the job market again to look for a job and happened to come across Weiku Electronics Co., Ltd. recruiting. Although he had never heard of this company, his company profile said that it was a large mobile phone manufacturer with a complete mobile phone software development department and needed to recruit talents who understood smart phone systems.

To be honest, Fang Zhixin doesn't know much about the systems of smart phones. He only came into contact with some information about the Android system because of his personal interest and the influence of his classmates when he was in school. He has a simple understanding of the Android system. In addition, he mainly studied Java language in college.

So he successfully passed the written test and interview, received a job offer, and became a programmer in the smart phone project of WeCool Electronics!
He is quite satisfied with the salary offered by the company. The starting salary is 4,200 yuan, and there will be a salary increase after becoming a regular employee. There are also social security and other welfare benefits. He also said that there are project bonuses and year-end bonuses.

The bonus depends on the situation, but I heard that their smartphone project team is highly valued by the company boss, so I guess the bonus won’t be too small.

This kind of treatment was already pretty good for him as a fresh graduate from an unknown second-tier university, so he started working without much hesitation.

Before joining the company, he was a little nervous. After all, they had been told during the interview that they were hired to do optimization and customization of the Android system.

He was aware of his own level and he was really not familiar with this stuff.

He was actually worried that he would be exposed after joining the company and get fired after revealing his incompetence...

However, after he actually started working and began to come into contact with the Android system, he found that the optimization and customization of the Android system did not seem to be very difficult.

Although there are still many things I don’t understand, I can ask some old colleagues, and I can also look up information online by myself. It seems to be quite easy to learn.

This fast and efficient learning ability allowed him to quickly familiarize himself with the Android system. He is now doing some of the work assigned by his superiors. Although the process is still a bit bumpy, he can finally do it...

This made him very puzzled.

Am I too awesome, or is the optimization of the Android system just that simple?
With this doubt, he sent an email today to a classmate with whom he had played well before, but the classmate's reply was even more confusing!
Fang Zhixin's classmate had a strong learning ability during his undergraduate studies. After graduating this year, he was successfully admitted to a master's program at a top university and is still attending school.

Fang Zhixin's classmate was also interested in open source systems such as Android and had been figuring it out on his own for a long time. The reason why Fang Zhixin had some understanding of Android was because of this classmate.

He asked his classmate via email whether it was difficult to optimize the Android system, and also asked about some of the problems he encountered at work. He felt that his classmate had been studying this system for half a year, and he was also a top student in school, and after graduation he was admitted to a master's degree program.

In his mind, such a classmate is a big shot who is much better than himself, and he should be able to get answers quickly by asking him some simple questions.

His classmate replied to the email soon after. He started by complaining about the inhumanity of Google's engineers and asked why they made the system so complicated, which made people feel overwhelmed. He also said that he had been working on it in his spare time for nearly half a year and had not even figured out the basics.

Then he asked him if he was working on the Android system with a big boss. It was obvious from the questions raised in the email that only a big boss with a very deep understanding of the Android system could ask these questions... And he himself could not give an answer. Instead, he asked Fang Zhixin for help, saying that he also had some questions about the Android system, and whether he could ask Fang Zhixin's big boss to take a look and discuss something with each other.

After seeing the reply from his classmates, Fang Zhixin was a little unsure...

Are the questions I asked too difficult? Are you saying that these are questions that only the big guys would ask?

Am I a big shot now? But in the company's smartphone project team, I am just a programmer at the bottom...

He also looked at the questions raised by his classmates. They were all basic entry-level questions and he could solve them on his own within a week at work.

Questions of this level are considered the most basic and entry-level questions in their project team.

As long as you don't slack off in the first week and work hard to study the company's internal Android system learning and research materials, and humbly ask old colleagues for help when you don't understand, you will basically be able to do it after a week or so... If one week still doesn't work, then two weeks at most.

If someone still asks such low-level questions after studying for two weeks, colleagues will doubt this person's IQ... I'm not kidding, I really doubt his IQ.

Because the engineers in the project team who are responsible for the system optimization part all feel that they are just ordinary people. Although some of them graduated from first-tier universities, there are also many from second-tier universities. Their level is at best the level of low-level coders in large companies... but in fact, they cannot even reach that level.

Otherwise, wouldn't it be better for people to go directly to a big company? Why come to this unknown small company, and it's a company that makes cheap mobile phones!

These people have interviewed at big companies but failed, or have never even gotten an interview opportunity...

Are you sure you still can't understand a problem that these 'ordinary people' can solve easily after studying for two weeks?

Bro, did you make a mistake when you joined the company?

Maybe the position you were interviewing for was in the hardware department next door, but the HR department made a mistake and assigned you to our system department? Is this because you are in a different field and that’s why you can’t do it?
Or maybe you were going to the civilian departments next door? For example, personnel, procurement and supply?
Anyway, you can't be a software developer... I've never seen anyone as stupid as you. If you can't learn it in a week, I can still barely understand it. But if you still can't learn it in two weeks, you'd better change your career as soon as possible. This business is not suitable for you!
Now, Fang Zhixin feels that his classmate seems to be a little unsuitable for the business of writing code... His classmate started to study Android before the postgraduate entrance examination. Even if he studied it in his spare time, it has been so long now, he should be able to understand these simple problems.

Now you have to ask such a stupid question... How did he get into graduate school?

(End of this chapter)