Introduction to is a group of fresh graduates, they have a lot of projects, are experienced, and come from a prestigious school. The future is promising. Belonging to the "children of other people" who often appear in the news is remote and mysterious. In order to eliminate this mystery, we interviewed a science and engineering tyrant. When he joined Ali at that time, he got Ali's "strongest offer"-"Ali Star". He is Xie Xiaolong, an Alibaba Cloud database technology expert.
In recent years, the Internet industry has been full of talents. When recruiting in spring and autumn every year, major companies resort to their best efforts to recruit talents.
Although a group of people are recent graduates, they have a lot of projects, have a lot of experience, and come from a prestigious school, and the future can be expected. Belonging to the "children of other people" who often appear in the news is remote and mysterious.
In order to eliminate this mystery, we interviewed a science and engineering tyrant. When he joined Ali at that time, he got Ali's "strongest offer"-"Ali Star".
Alistar originated in 2011 in order to attract the youngest and top talents. Only a few of the hundreds of thousands of engineering graduates can get Alistar offers each year. Most of them are from top universities. They have a lot of top-level papers and internship experience before they have the opportunity to participate in the interview. Then, after more than a dozen rounds of interviews, they can successfully get the "strongest offer from Ali, who is led by the boss and has no annual salary." ".
He is Xie Xiaolong, an Alibaba Cloud database technology expert.
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Internet addiction teenager goes to Peking University
Xie Xiaolong was admitted to Peking University at the age of 16. When he took the mathematics exam for the college entrance examination, he filled in the math answer sheet incorrectly. However, when physics was difficult that year, he obtained a good overall score with the advantage of a full score in physics and was admitted to Peking University. In the course of Xie Xiaolong's exchanges, we learned that his family has always treated him completely free-range, and he humbly calls himself a "frozen chicken".
"I don't particularly believe in the term IQ. In the process of learning, I found that my memory is relatively poor, and it is particularly easy to forget knowledge points, so I need to take out those knowledge points and watch them repeatedly to ensure that I will not forget them." He thinks Except for people with super IQs, he, like most other people with good grades, is because he spends more time studying.
However, this person with poor memory was still an internet addict who was addicted to games in high school, especially in the first and second grades of high school. This made us very curious about the opportunity that made his performance in the second half of high school improve by leaps and bounds. Taking advantage of this interview, we also raised our own questions. In this regard, Xie Xiaolong also gave an accurate answer: I just felt tired of playing the game, so I started to study hard. Once he had an epiphany, Xie Xiaolong's learning thinking has changed a lot from before. He called this change "action." He believes that action is the most important thing. He said, for example, I did ten questions today, and two of them couldn't. In the past, I would tell myself "forget it" and "it's almost done." But after "wake up" is "I have to find a way to figure out these two questions. I have to read books and ask others to see why this is the case." In fact, when a person gets serious and does things, it really is completely different. , This is a positive feedback.
In the later stage of high school, after discussing with the auntie, Xie Xiaolong went to the hall downstairs to continue studying after turning off the lights every night. When he was the craziest third year in high school, he only slept for four or five hours a day, and only rested when he was sick. . "Because everyone's situation is different, I have too many things in the first half of the paragraph, so I will naturally spend more time to make up later." Xie Xiaolong said: "In many cases, it is not the problem of ineffective effort, but the effort itself is a problem. Very difficult things require not only time, but also talent. Efforts are not just simply taking time, but a high level of concentration that requires a long period of time every day."
Because of my own experience, when facing students who are in the second year of high school and the college entrance examination next year, some teachers say that there is no chance to score points in the third year of high school. Xie Xiaolong put forward other opinions. He said: "In the college entrance examination, one is whether you have enough knowledge points, and the other is whether you are proficient in the questions. In fact, those questions are not particularly difficult. Give you enough time and you can do every question. I think that if you want to improve your grades, the first thing is to understand why your grades are not up to expectations, which subjects are the problems or which knowledge modules are the problems. The second thing is for yourself. Weaknesses, to develop some targeted learning plans. The third thing, and the most important and also the most difficult thing, is to persist. After drawing up a learning plan, we must persist. Reading is a hard task. It is true that many students can’t persevere. But if they don’t persevere, they may never have the opportunity to do this well."
"I don't know 985 Xie Xiaolong"
I heard that your title is "I don't know 985 Xie Xiaolong", what's the matter? When I was a Ph.D., I registered a question-and-answer website and found out what 985 and 211 are discussed every day on that question-and-answer website. In order to participate in your discussion, I searched the Internet for what is 985 and what is 211. Xie Xiaolong smiled.
In college Xie Xiaolong was still a famous "slash youth". In high school, Xie Xiaolong didn't think about what kind of work he would do in the future, and no one would give guidance. After going to Peking University, everyone can do a lot of experiments in a free learning environment. Xie Xiaolong had a double degree in computer, microelectronics, and law, and he also tried some entrepreneurial projects in new media and the Internet. After doing a lot of attempts, I felt that I had some talent for computers, and I finally chose the path of computers.
But for a freshman who just entered university, the university has only a short period of four years. Of course, it is okay to try more, but not everyone has enough cost to try. It will be a major blow. On this point, Xie Xiaolong gave his opinion: In fact, the so-called trial and error cost, the most important thing depends on what you get in this trial and error process. This society is changing very fast. Many people don't know what path they want or suits to take. This is a relatively common state. For example, some students have made a test plan for themselves, but in fact they have not really prepared very seriously. This is an ineffective experience. But if he is really serious about preparing, even if he fails to pass the exam in the end, I still think he will gain a lot in the process. Strive for effective slashes and effective horizontal jumps, so that you can grow in every experience. Therefore, if you want no step in the process of trying to go for nothing, you need to make a serious effort in each attempt, carefully review the game, and turn each attempt into a piece of your own life experience.
Some subjects in university are difficult. In high school, Xie Xiaolong felt that he could learn what he did not know as long as he worked hard, but after entering the university, he found that it was not the case. There are some recommended or particularly smart classmates around him, and he will feel that he is always inferior to them. Later, he adjusted his mentality through his own efforts and took the initiative to escape from the internal scroll. "In the stressful environment of university, you have to learn to know a more real self. In fact, what I regret most is that I didn't learn mathematics well in my undergraduate course. Some courses may only have one chance to learn in my life." Xie Xiaolong Speaking of. "I don't think I can learn, so I won't learn, and do something that suits me." Try more, prepare and replay. No one is almighty from the beginning, just a little bit of persistence and a little bit of trying to find the path that suits you best.
Join Ali and become "Alistar"
After Xie Xiaolong tried different directions during his undergraduate course, he decided to work in the basic software industry, and then began to work hard in programming. After that, his programming ability began to advance by leaps and bounds, and he became a rising star in Ali.
(The way to Alibaba)
Later, he shared with us some of his situation when he first entered Ali. Xie Xiaolong, who majored in microelectronics, was not easy sailing when he first entered Ali. When Ali was interviewing, Xie Xiaolong and the interviewer argued over the answers to the interview questions. Xie Xiaolong said: "Even though I have worked for a long time and I am very experienced, I think I am quite familiar with this field, so I started to analyze why his answer was wrong, and in the end I still insisted on my point of view. No. I think that his evaluation of my interview was quite high. I think that if a person does his job well enough, he is actually an authoritative person. When he encounters suggestions from others, he can analyze it rationally."
Having said that, he introduced his work to us: “In fact, the database is the programmer’s Excel, but the scenarios that the database has to deal with are more extreme. The amount of data to be processed, the speed of writing, query, and analysis, are all It is several orders of magnitude higher than our commonly used Excel. For example, the cloud native data warehouse AnalyticDB developed by our team, this system needs to store PB-level data in a single instance, support real-time complex SQL queries and data analysis business. On the one hand, in writing A large number of technological innovations are required in terms of input performance and storage cost. On the other hand, in order to achieve large data volume and high-performance complex queries, very high requirements are placed on optimizers and computing engines. Moreover, in the cloud-native era, the entire The system must be very easy to use, easy to manage, and convenient to expand and shrink. Although logically speaking, AnalyticDB has the same functions as Excel, but the amount of data and scenarios processed are very extreme, so it has very big technical challenges." Said: "For example, when we open the takeaway software to check a restaurant, as well as subsequent orders, payment and other links, the database will assume the final storage of this data."
Rational persistence is very important, and it is normal to be confused. This society is very rich and colorful, and no one can determine what kind of work they are suitable for before they start. A better idea to overcome this confusion is to find something to do, such as finding an internship or finding an entrepreneurial project. It is useless to think too much, do it first, and it does not matter if you fail. The most important thing is to persevere in the process. If you really do it seriously, you will gain. Xie Xiaolong told us that instead of sticking to one's own ideas blindly, it is called being rational to stick to one's own ideas. "I don't think you can compare your offers with other special offers. Some Internet companies give some outstanding fresh graduates the salary, which may be 3 to 5 times that of ordinary fresh graduates. However, many students went online to see someone For the face recognition tutorial, I used Python to adjust a few packages, and then I went to cast this algorithm post. There are always some unrealistic expectations." Xie Xiaolong said that only by understanding yourself correctly and finding a path that suits you can you have Only by persisting rationally will there be good gains.
As a programmer, Xie Xiaolong also understands many discussions on the Internet about the difficulty of programmers getting married late, but he doesn’t care. He smiles: I feel that the programmers around me are quite popular in the blind date market. Many The classmates got married very early. So although most programmers do not have girlfriends, they do have wives. Xie Xiaolong is also one of them. He is always serious and responsible at work. He is also a gentle, reliable and caring husband in life. He smiled and said not to say that my wife wants my child to have her surname. I and her surname are both. no problem.
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