In the face of layoffs, how programmers can settle down

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The most personal experience comes from the constant "graduation" sound of big factories. The most direct reason is revenue, profit and flow that are no longer growing, which is undoubtedly revealed in the just-ended earnings season.

The less optimistic financial report reflects the near-saturated market penetration rate, the sluggish macro economy, the close combat of the stock market, the ever-changing international situation, and the heavy economic damage caused by the repeated epidemics.

In short, after real estate, the Internet wind is no longer strong.

But at the same time, the earnings season also gave us another guide, which is that the capital market is paying more and more attention to the R&D costs of technology companies. On the one hand, the pain of chip supply tells us the importance of increasing investment in mastering core technologies; on the other hand, with fewer opportunities in mature tracks, Internet companies tend to deeply develop the needs of existing users and develop their businesses in depth. Get a long-term growth curve.

Changes in the competitive situation of the entire industry, for individuals, represent a sharp reduction in the opportunity to achieve a class jump through personal struggle. Programmers cannot rely on the platform at all to settle down, but seek answers from the long-term development and ability accumulation of individuals.

How to be a tech long-termist? Do men and women in the Internet industry have job role differences due to gender differences?

In addition to sharing technical dry goods as always, the 4th episode of the second season of Rongyun Ape Desk Group also discussed topics such as the 35-year-old crisis and the uneven ratio of men and women in the programmer workplace. To a certain extent, the show is also an answer to these questions.

be a tech long-termist

The 35-year-old crisis and gender inequality are arguably enduring topics. At different times, everyone's cognition and perspective will change, so this topic can be said to be a commonplace, but it is often new.

In the second season of the Ape Desk School, in addition to sharing technical dry goods, it also talked about these hot spots closely related to the life of programmers, and tried to give reference answers from the level of personal practice.

How to be a tech long-termist? In EP5 and EP6 of the Ape Table Sect, Zang Qilong, Song Qingchen and the descendants of the monks put forward two key points.

Song Qingchen

Shang Heir

Zang Qilong

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1. Stay curious and explore new technologies and expand your horizons.

In addition to the company's business needs, another major driving force for technological progress should come from the pursuit of technology by developers themselves. Moreover, each language has its own characteristics, and the languages also refer to each other. Learning a new language or framework is also an opportunity to learn from each other's strengths. In this way, developers can find different inspirations from other places when making requirements.

A language or technology itself is a toolbox. Developers need to broaden their horizons and avoid the situation where "everything looks like a nail with a hammer in hand".

2. Learn lower-level, more immutable techniques.

Faced with anxiety at the age of 35, looking around, there is no such thing as an older programmer who is still coding on the front line and can gain a sense of accomplishment. For example, Rongyun takes IM instant messaging and RTC real-time audio and video as its core business, and these two technologies are extremely difficult. Neither the underlying protocol nor the knowledge of WebRTC can be understood and mastered in three or five years.

So the tech-oriented proposition for a 35-year-old is that if you decide to dig deep into technology, you should try to research something that may not change for many years, like the underlying protocol or operating system related and so on.

Set a long-term development goal and work towards it, 35 is the golden age of programmers. After the age where others say what they say, and at the same time have a certain technical accumulation and knowledge, they really start to settle down. For a technology, people of this age have the ability to make appropriate selections and accurate evaluations. Such people will not have no value or become less valuable.

To be a long-termist of technology and personal development, even if you are accidentally swept by the wings of a sudden black swan, you will not fall to the ground.

Will the answer to this question be different when the microphone is given to female practitioners? In Ape Table Sect EP7 and EP8, Mu Mu and Sophie answered yes, no.

Zang Qilong

Mu Mu

Sophie

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For a long time, women seem to have been given more family responsibilities, but the traditional model of "male in charge of outside and female in charge" has been reversed to a great extent in reality.

The Chinese women's football team won the Asian Cup, China's first female astronaut Wang Yaping to carry out extravehicular activities, the ubiquitous deeds of women in the fight against the epidemic, and the success of female leaders in all walks of life also encourages women in the workplace to pursue self-worth and become career "" big lady".

Therefore, in the Internet industry, which basically smoothes out the difference in physical strength, regardless of men and women, the dilemmas faced by everyone are becoming more and more similar, and the solutions are also different. As Sophie said, "If you can be refined and specialized in your field, there is no gender difference."

The way to relieve anxiety is still to continue to learn, to complement the ability, and to be "stronger than the enemy".

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The Ape Desk Group is a beneficial attempt by Rongyun to "invite programmers to the table". After two seasons of accumulation, it has become the most popular and most popular programmer talk variety show, with more than 350,000 Weibo topics, and every broadcast Out of all received enthusiastic feedback and positive response.

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"Growing pains" is the only way for every developer in their career development, and Rongyun hopes to provide more model references when facing these hurdles in development.

This is the biggest reason why Rongyun launched the first programmer variety show Ape Desk Party, to create a happy world for programmers to "talk about work and life, from cutting-edge technology to career growth". From behind the scenes to the front, make them a well-deserved focus.

The programmer community has Github, and the programmer variety show has the ape table faction.

If we say that Ape Desk is responsible for providing programmers with the same support and advice as "accompanying companions" in their work and life; WICC is responsible for providing programmers' careers with the same vision and insight as "the weather vane of the future".

As a developer technology Party, WICC has been held four times in three consecutive years. Aggregating outstanding technical personnel from industry, academia and research, from scientific research to technology development to industrial application, allowing practitioners to obtain the latest technical inspiration, and at the same time bringing more possible new scenarios to developers, leading the overall communication cloud industry. development and progress.

From this point of view, WICC will help developers to think about solutions from a larger perspective and a longer time scale when faced with "growing pains".

The reason behind such concern for developers' long-term development and growing pains is Rongyun's long-termism.

The founding of Rongyun started from the gap in the industry that the founding team saw in the instant messaging business. Rongyun is the entrepreneurship of developers, and it is also for the entrepreneurship of developers.

In the past 8 years, Rongyun has a clear development path and firm belief. "Everything is for developers" is the starting point of Rongyun's long-termism. At different stages of the company's development, Rongyun's balance is tilted towards developers.

On the one hand, in the iterative evolution of the product system, it continues to develop in a direction that is more convenient for developers.

In the general direction, Rongyun from IM instant messaging to RTC real-time audio and video, to full communication solutions, the third-generation scene-based SDK, the overall direction is close to the market, allowing developers to use a simpler path.

In terms of product design, Rongyun will really consider product design from the developer's perspective, focus on the developer's access experience, and continuously optimize the interface and architecture design.

In daily work, the product manager of Rongyun maintains the work habit of regularly reviewing and investigating all work orders and feedback of the product in charge of the institute to ensure that in the process of product development, the needs of developers can be continuously and accurately met.

On the other hand, the whole life cycle support of the service system. Rongyun creates a complete service ecosystem from customer service, business, pre-sales, products, R&D, testing, and online. According to the different depths of services, build a layered service system to ensure that on the basis of efficient operation, pay attention to the feedback of each developer, respond to the needs of developers in a timely manner, and accompany them to realize the whole process of business.

The front-line service is responsible for the basic needs of customers, such as document answers, SDK downloads, background operations, etc. The second-line services focus on the R&D level needs of developers in integration, such as SDK access consultation. When the developer's business is faced with individual needs with high technical difficulty, the third-line service of Rongyun will be on call to assist in overcoming them.

With the rapid development of social pan-entertainment, games and other industries and the trend of complex demands for communication, cloud fusion services have also maintained a certain degree of flexibility on the basis of standards. Faced with the lack of R&D manpower in a short period of time, or the personalized needs of some targeted high-end gameplay, Rongyun will send a R&D team to the site to better understand and support the customer's business.

If the long-termism of developers is the continuous improvement and unremitting pursuit of technology. Then, the firm implementation and multi-angle implementation of "everything for developers" is Rongyun's long-termism.