"In Shenzhen, everyone goes very fast." This is Xu Liang's experience. On the first day, he took the subway to go to the IT training school. He found that the people in front suddenly started to rush, and then started jogging, and everyone started running with him. He was squeezed into the crowd and found that the train door was about to be closed. He also began to sprint on the platform, stuffing himself into the car just before starting. Before he could take a breath, Xu Liang looked up and saw that he was actually on the train in the opposite direction.
text | Zhang Weicheng
editing | Jinzha
operation | Yifan
green light
The center of the computer desktop is a traffic light. The red light, yellow light and green light are lit up in sequence using the programming language. A qualified programmer can achieve all this in two minutes. But 11 years ago, when 19-year-old Sun Ling first saw this scene, she realized that it was technology that made everything simple, fast and direct.
At that time, Sun Ling had just learned that she had failed the college entrance examination. After a rising channel was closed, she accidentally came into contact with the profession of programmer and immediately wanted to apply for an IT training school, but something went wrong at home, who originally planned to fund her aunt. Later, after staying in the assembly line of the mobile phone battery factory for a year, Sun Ling saved some money and decided to leave the factory. The first thing she remembered was the scene of the red, yellow and green lights on.
An IT training school located in Huaqiangbei, Shenzhen gave Sun Ling a ticket to become a programmer. Her legendary experience began from then on - obtaining a diploma through self-study exams, constantly changing jobs to better companies, learning English to study in the United States for graduate school, and finally gaining her own place in an American Internet company.
To this day, the school that Sun Ling has been to still lives well in the industry. There are all kinds of people sitting on the sofa at the door, middle-aged people with vicissitudes, young people with confidence, and parents who are worried, all solemnly write down their names and contact information here. As long as you fill out an information form at the front desk, all kinds of people - admissions teachers, training teachers, and school supervisors, will come to you and warmly invite you to embark on the road to programmers.
For those who are coming to IT training schools, Sun Ling is a "myth". During the interview, people kept mentioning her with a look of yearning. She is a coordinate, representing a leap trajectory that can be imitated, just as the article that flooded the screen last year said: "She has used it for 10 years from a girl from a Shenzhen assembly line factory to a high-paying programmer in New York." This arouses people's imagination: Once an ordinary person without foundation becomes a programmer, he has the opportunity to start a completely new life in the wave of the Internet. To achieve this goal, they are eager to find an entrance to the Internet world. Going to an IT training school may be the least expensive and lowest threshold.
25-year-old Xu Liang is one of them. The IT training school he chose was opened in Shenzhen for ten years and remained at medium scale. It was stuffed into an old office building and was stuffed into four classrooms and scattered small offices. The admissions teacher received Xu Liang and promised that his future work would be "guaranteed to 6K". She gestured in front of Xu Liang, "If there is more, it is entirely possible to get 8K." She pushed the admissions brochure to him, and the first page printed: "Choose IT and choose success."
Xu Liang was skeptical, looking around the walls around the training school, and posted information about "employment stars". Their starting salary was not less than 10K. The admissions teacher continued to outline a bright future for him: finding a job, settling down, and being a new Shenzhener - he was inspired.
Being a new Shenzhener has always existed only in Xu Liang's imagination. He was born in the countryside and halfway through elementary school, his parents set up a small hardware store and moved his family into a county town with only two main roads. The older brothers and sisters of the same generation either work in the factory or stay in the county to make a living. There is only one older brother who is recognized as "prosperous" and works in an Internet company in Shenzhen.
In the summer of 2018, Xu Liang received a call from his brother, inviting him to come to Shenzhen to study IT.He didn't understand what IT was. At the age of 22, he worked in a carving factory and was the youngest carpenter in the entire factory. The masters asked him to buy cigarettes and betel nuts, but he never dared not. One day, he accidentally told them that he might go to a big city to study IT. "Stop talking nonsense." The master closest to him said, "I don't know your mind yet? It's impossible."
Xu Liang curled his lips, and wanted to refute but couldn't start. He looked back at the door of the factory and saw that everything in the carving factory was gray, with granite dust everywhere. On one hand, the masters were lying on the stone and working endlessly, while on the other hand, the newly installed CNC engraving machine made a sharp sound. He felt that if he continued to stay, his life would seem to fall on granite. When my brother called again, Xu Liang decided to leave and head to Shenzhen.
▲Crowds of people coming and going on the streets of Huaqiangbei. For many, doing IT work here means "success" and "making money". Picture / Visual China
shortcut key
"I don't have a foundation." At the IT training school, Xu Liang asked nervously, "Can you really learn it?"
"As long as you know the computer's turn on and off, you can learn it." The admissions teacher is so guaranteed.
He went to listen and for the first time from the teacher's operation, he learned that he could use the shortcut keys of Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V to copy and paste. He saw the taste of "professional programmers". "Programmers have some unique habits, such as using many shortcut keys."
Xu Liang, who hates school life, found a different feeling in the training school. Four hours of class in the morning, and self-study in the afternoon and evening. By 10 o'clock in the evening, my butt hurts, and Xu Liang is reluctant to leave. The computers in the school are very old, and students often swear because of the computer crash, but Xu Liang always waits patiently. He needs time to stop and think to keep up with the pace of courses and assignments.
The beginning of teaching JAVA basic lessons, collections, multithreading, arrays, and IO streaming, these concepts made him dizzy. He just understood HTML, and CSS3 is here again. Fortunately, he learned to search tutorials online, and there are answers online. This is his first time using a learning method called self-study.
There are six textbooks in total, each with nearly one hundred pages. The teacher’s teaching method is “cramming”, which only teaches the things in the textbook without further expansion. There are many times when I can't understand it and I'm impatient. Xu Liang will go to the smoking room specially set up for students in the training school. In the smoke, the smile of the "employment star" on the wall is still conspicuous.
At the time in the carving factory, Xu Liang could smoke a cigarette for a long time, but here, his patience was only enough to smoke half. After smoking, you have to fold it back and memorize the code paragraphs you don’t understand. In training schools, no one talks about the principles behind the code. If you really can't understand it, just write it down when you need to use it. Teacher Cao in the training school understands that they pursue "examination-oriented education", but "examination" refers to the interview of the company. When it comes to the key point, his habit is to pat the blackboard and warn students, "This is what you need to ask in the interview."
The training school also arranged for outstanding graduates to come back for communication. He is a JAVA engineer working in a startup company. After working for more than a year, he received a monthly salary of 15K. When Xu Liang saw the real person, he felt that in terms of conversation, this person was not as good as himself. His confidence became stronger and he felt that he would soon become a skilled person to press the shortcut keys.
"In Shenzhen, everyone goes very fast." This is Xu Liang's experience. On the first day, he took the subway to go to school. He found that the people in front suddenly started to rush, and then started jogging, and everyone started running with him. He was squeezed into the crowd and found that the train door was about to be closed. He also began to sprint on the platform, stuffing himself into the car just before starting. Before he could take a breath, Xu Liang looked up and saw that he was actually on the train in the opposite direction.
▲People who are catching the subway in Shenzhen. Picture / Visual China
Speed has always been synonymous with Shenzhen, and software companies are developing so rapidly here.In 1995, IBM entered Shenzhen. Subsequently, multinational companies such as Combat , Seagate, Sanyo, Xerox and other multinational companies opened branches in Shenzhen, bringing technology, positions and money. Shenzhen has become a paradise for the software industry. From 2000 to 2010 when Sun Ling entered the market, the number of enterprises in Shenzhen's software industry increased almost at a rate of doubling each year.
At that time, smartphones were not popular, and the era of mobile Internet did not arrive. What the market needed was people who could write portal website code. JAVA was already the most commonly used language for developing websites, but universities were still teaching C language - IT training schools to solve this contradiction came into being. Huaqiangbei, Nanshan Science and Technology Park, and Longgang Central City, beside the Internet companies, IT training schools squeeze into office buildings, and employers will directly come to the training schools to hold job fairs. Each company occupies a small compartment, and students line up to go in for an interview, and few people fail.
Xu Liang longs to catch up with Shenzhen’s speed. In his imagination, the training school is a magic school that teaches the most scarce things on the market. Entering it means a good job and a good future. The teaching progress of IT training schools in Shenzhen is the fastest among branches in the country. Students from all provinces are eagerly waiting for the qualification to enter the labor market. Other branches can teach content for one and a half years, and they can finish all of them here in 8 months. In addition to the JAVA language, the course is also interspersed with projects such as developing Internet TV elf, news release system, and rental network, claiming to train all students into qualified software engineers. It is like a shortcut key that appears in life, sending life to the next stage at the fastest speed.
People flocked in, and the training schools were also expanding wildly. From 2010 to 2012, the most famous Peking University Youth Bird IT Training School opened 6 branches in Shenzhen. The advertising slogan of "Learn IT and have a good job, come to Peking University Blue Bird" appears like a spell, covering the sky on flyers and in TV advertisements. Dana Education, the largest IT training institution in China at that time, was also listed on the Nasdaq in the United States in 2014.
The transformation occurred around 2015. After the boom period, giant companies began to appear. The huge system's requirements for code are no longer "as long as it can be used", but rather require concise, beautiful and sustainable optimization. "Enterprises are digging their own moats." said Zhu Rong, who had attended a training school ten years ago. The core of this moat is the best-quality programming, which brings barriers formed by education, experience and background.
The moat is repaired, and ordinary people can't get in, and Teacher Cao also clearly felt it. The school where he works has updated its training materials every year and a half, which is already the fastest in the industry. In those big companies, "there are real changes with each passing day. If you don't study for a month, you will be eliminated by the company." Training schools are also gradually being eliminated. From 2017 to 2020, the number of Peking University Qingbird Shenzhen Branch reduced from 6 to 2, and small training institutions closed one after another, leaving only the institutions that were in the top and middle areas in the past. As of the end of 2019, Dana Education's market value shrank by 91%, and due to the financial arrears, it received a delisting warning from Nasdaq.
The courses that students in IT training classes come into contact with - JAVA object-oriented programming logic, JAVA advanced practical development technology, and web front-end development technology, etc., from the name point of view, it seems that it can meet the production needs of a programmer, but it is just a name. The training class teaches the basics, and the knowledge is outdated and simple. "It's the same building. The leading Internet company requires employees to build a skyscraper. The training class can only teach you how to build a brick house." said a senior programmer.
▲Teaching content in the brochure of IT training classes on the market. Photo by Zhang Weicheng
Holding
But some people outside the circle have no sense of all this and still want to take the easy ride. A few years ago, 22-year-old Zeng Feng graduated from the computer department of an ordinary university. He was worried that he had not learned the skills that could be applied directly and was attracted to IT training schools by advertising. He had a vague memory of what he learned, but he remembered the anxiety of queuing in front of the toilet after class. There were too many people, and every time he had to queue up six or seven people in front to be his turn.
At that time, he learned that there is another class in IT training schools called amateur classes. Most of the students in the class come from assembly line factories or service industries. They need to go to work on weekdays and can only come to study in the evenings and weekends. Generally, only half of the students in a class can complete all the courses. For them, expensive tuition and a lot of time are obstacles to their studies.
But no matter whether it is amateur or off-duty students, there is no difference in the eyes of Jiang Jie, the enrollment teacher of the training school. The tuition fees they have to pay are the same, which means that the commission she gets is the same. Every time one person signs up, she will earn 2,000 yuan.
In the training school, Jiang Jie does not have a basic salary, and every potential student is the money she may get. When she entered the industry three years ago, the IT training industry was no longer so prosperous, and there were fewer and fewer students and parents coming to consult, so she could only take the initiative.
Every student who enters the training school requires them to leave five more contact information of their classmates. Jiang Jie will call them one by one and ask if she has any intention to come to study IT. If not, "Where are anyone you know who wants to learn?" If a student successfully introduces new students, the student himself will receive a bonus of 1,000 yuan and a tuition fee reduction of 2,000 yuan.
Another way to recruit new students is to take over their students from poorer universities. Computer majors in these universities will conduct "practice training" courses during the summer vacation of junior year. The school did not arrange teachers, so they invited teachers from the training school to come. In exchange, the training school also gained the opportunity to promote enrollment.
"The most important thing is to forget the past." Teacher Jiang taught the skills of enrollment. "No matter what the other party is like in the past, first show sympathy, then tell them that it doesn't matter, and then look forward to the future." She is best at dealing with worried parents, who often worry about their children's future. At this time, she will talk about her "brother" and "brother" who do not exist.
"My younger brother is too, he is addicted to playing games, and his personality becomes very strange."
"My brother didn't study before, and wanted to go out to work. He has been playing for two years but has not had a serious job."
"I asked him to learn this programming, and now he is working."
"I don't earn much, but I can support myself."
Tuition is not cheap, around 20,000 yuan, and all training institutions are at this price. But it doesn’t matter if you can’t afford the tuition fee. You can use the tuition loan function of the Internet Finance APP to pay in installments. The class started after recruiting about 15 people, and the middle was added one after another. The final scale was about 30 people. About half of these 30 people applied for loans to pay tuition fees.
Teacher Jiang often posts a kind of WeChat chat screenshot on his Moments: Another HR came to him and invited the training school to organize students to interview the company. He has a wide range of positions, including software development engineers, operation and maintenance engineers, etc. She will also add text: "The HR of the employment cooperative enterprise sends an olive branch of talent needs again and enjoys the benefits and benefits of first-class enterprises."
The other end of the chat screenshot is Zhao Li, the HR of the Internet human resources outsourcing company. "HR" is her claim. In fact, people in the industry call this type of position "sales". Her job is to sell human heads to Party A's employer. She introduced that students who graduated from IT training schools will go to the A-level exam. After passing the interview, the students work for Party A and get a low salary. The contract is signed with the human resources outsourcing company, and Party A will pay the human resources outsourcing company a certain fee.
The requirements for recruitment are getting higher and higher, and the output of training schools cannot keep up with market demand, and resume fraud is beginning to appear. But Zhao Li never minds whether the resumes of these students are true or false. What she cares about is her own indicators and commissions. In one month, she will introduce more than 150 people to the A-level exam. If someone can stay through the interview with Party A and become a formal outsourcing employee, she can get a commission of 1,000 yuan from the company. "No one will take the initiative to look for training schools except for human resources outsourcing companies," she said."I go to a training school, it's like purchasing goods from a wholesale market. I don't care about the quality of the goods, just sell them." And a fake resume means that it can be "selled" easier.
▲The stairwell of a building in Huaqiangbei is covered with different recruitment notices such as shopping guides and developers, and many employees passing by will stop and pay attention. Picture / Visual China
is all fake
Xu Liang finally came to the time to have a formal interview.
The training school first held a sharing session to let everyone go up to talk about their past in front of everyone. Therefore, he learned the origin of his classmates, sales staff, restaurant waiters, people who were eliminated by the financial industry, and college students who were not good at academic performance. Many people shed tears in succession of lyricism and reflection. A classmate said, "We are all the same." He dropped out of college, but in the training school, he was a study committee member and was responsible for turning on computers for his classmates every day. Xu Liang felt the resonance in his chest. They were indeed the same. He thought, they were all people who didn’t work hard enough before and now they were going to work hard.
Some students used to be clerks and workers, and they earned three or four thousand a month. Now they have only been training for four or five months. Can they get double their salary when they go out? The students themselves didn't believe it, and they didn't dare to raise such a high salary during the interview, so the teachers in the training school taught them ideological classes. "You are the talents needed by the times." "You should get such a high salary." "Don't show your timidity!" "Boldly mention it!"
The recruitment process of programmers in Internet companies is generally divided into two steps: one is to read the resume and the other is to have technical interviews. In technical interviews, the interviewer will ask questions to job seekers about some basic programming languages and frameworks to examine their technical level. Because there is no practical link, as long as you can answer it verbally, you can pass it smoothly. As for resumes, there are other ways to train the school. After the technical class is finished, it is time to take the professional quality class. The teacher came in and told them first: "Resume needs to be packaged, everyone will pack it. If you don't pack it, you will lag behind others."
Xu Liang nodded, agreeing with this sentence. The teacher then said that they should write down 1-5 years of work experience based on their age. He had never looked for a job and didn't know what this meant. The classmate next to him muttered in a low voice, isn't this a fraud? So Xu Liang asked him, "Can we do fake things?"
The classmate did not answer him, and he himself could not find the answer to this question. He remembered that he went to Houhai area in Shenzhen with his classmates on weekends, where there were Tencent building and countless Internet companies. The exterior walls of the office building shone under the sun by the sea. He vowed to find a decent job, sit in the air-conditioned room, and let others serve him.
Xu Liang still did as the teacher said. He was born in 1995 and his teacher asked him to write about his work experience. The company name is asked to find the name of a small company that sounds decent online; the project experience is written in the project that has been done by the training school. If you think the training school is not advanced enough, you can search online. Xu Liang found a software project from Tsinghua University online. After listening to it halfway, he wrote the name of the project. The education is used for the "fully automatic" adult college entrance examination undergraduate degree obtained by the training school. This type of undergraduate diploma can be approved by the undergraduate degree without having to attend classes. The graduation years can be changed at will as long as you pay.
"If you can't accept it, just write less." The teacher also advised Zeng Feng so and asked him to modify his resume. He rejected the teacher's request. The teacher does not allow it. He asked, can I not find a job? I'll go home directly. But when I entered the school, I signed an agreement. The school was responsible for all matters about the students' job search and could not be let go back easily. He then took a leave of absence, which was nominally interrupted his studies and told his teacher that he would come back next year and return to his hometown.
Xie Fei, who has a full-time undergraduate computer major diploma, started his job search after being "packaged" from the training school's resume.He calculated that he had submitted at least 500 resumes. At the beginning, he only went to interview companies within 10 kilometers of himself. Later, the range was expanded to 15 kilometers and 20 kilometers, and finally it was possible in the entire Shenzhen city.
A interviewer reminded me tactfully: "Your resume and experience do not match." He couldn't answer, and understood that the resume was discovered, sweating down, and could not tell whether the room was hot or cold, so he just wanted to escape as soon as possible. But he soon overcame this sentiment because there were too many interviews and he was numb to everything. In the end, a sales company asked him for it. In this company, there were only two technical positions, and the code used might have been eliminated by a large company five years ago.
Even if you find a job, a fake resume is still like a bomb to some people. Chen Long studied photoelectric information science undergrad, and he had no idea what job he could find in this major. So he signed up for an IT training school in 2017 and later changed his career. During his two years of work, he always tried his best to avoid being a new interviewer. When he saw other people's resumes, he would think of his own - not only his academic qualifications and experience were fake, but his age was fake. When colleagues of the same age talk about age, he can only remain silent. Once someone asked him what he valued most when working. He said that it was honesty, and he was still thinking about the fake resume.
The way to whitewash your resume is usually to change jobs to a new company after working for one or two years, and after you have real work experience. But Chen Long is in love and hopes to continue working with his current colleagues. After more than a year of joining the company, he found an opportunity to have a meal with his direct leader and confessed to him at the dinner table.
"I know, I actually saw it." The leader said indifferently without any surprise when he heard it. He felt even more ashamed, thinking that he must have had many omissions in his past work, so that people could see his true level.
The leader did not mention this matter again, and he was the only one who continued to suffer. After a big project, his colleagues went to a dinner and had a drink together, but he was still worried. In the noisy conversation and jokes, he sucked silently, unconsciously until his mind was a little blurred. "My resume is fake!" he suddenly shouted. The colleague was stunned and did not understand what he was saying. He walked to him and asked him, "What's wrong?" "Fake it! All are fake!" He knelt down in front of his colleague and continued to apologize: "My resume is fake." Everyone heard it. Later he learned from a colleague with good relationships what he had done. The atmosphere of the company remained calm, as if nothing had happened, but since then, he never drank at the company dinner again.
▲Photo/ Stills from "I, Get off work"
outsourcing
There was no time to carefully study what each company does. As long as the positions marked with the words "software engineer" and "JAVA engineer", Xu Liang submitted his resume. In the end, he was hired by a small company with a monthly salary of 6-7K. After signing the entry agreement, he looked back at the company's introduction and wrote a lot of main partners, from government agencies to film and television companies. Only then did he realize that he had entered a project outsourcing company.
The project outsourcing company is Party B, responsible for contracting projects from Party A and conducting software development based on Party A's needs. If you don’t have your own products, the work content and progress are all determined by Party A. If you ask online whether to work in a software outsourcing company, you will receive almost always advice. But Xu Liang had no other choice. When he was applying for a class, he borrowed money. The tuition fee was more than 23,000 yuan. Before he started looking for a job, the text message to urge him to repay was sent to his mobile phone. He had to find a job. This idea became a string in his mind, urging him to do everything.
He finally arrived at Shenzhen Software Park . He took the subway to work on the first day. He was already accustomed to the rhythm of Shenzhen and walked out of the subway along the flow of people. "It's really exciting." His mind was filled with excitement and almost fell on the steps at the subway entrance.But when he really started working, a trace of luck in his heart disappeared immediately - because he was so "dried".
In the first period, he did not dare to ask his colleagues questions, for fear that his level would appear to be too poor. Later, every time I completed a piece of work, I strengthened this idea. Once, the deadline given by the supervisor was too tight, so he had to find a program to write on Taobao, but the level of the writer was not high. They studied the methods together and submitted the task on time.
At the sharing meeting of the training school, Xu Liang told me the reason why he dropped out of high school: he was discovered by the head teacher when he was reading online novels in class, and the head teacher forced him to read out the content he had just read in front of the whole class. He had poor grades and felt even more humiliated now. From then on, he always suspected that his teachers and classmates looked down on him. Now, that sense of humiliation has come again. During the meeting, the supervisor asked him: "How do you write the program log? Children who have just entered college will not write it like this." Xu Liang noticed that several colleagues nodded in agreement. He felt wronged, and he had never been to college, how could he know.
But later he didn't retreat so easily. He corrected wherever he was not told. The best technical level among colleagues is a computer major who has worked for a year. He specifically asked him about framework issues and read a lot of technical forums.
The delivery date of his first project is only a few days away, and he almost lives in the company. He lives in Pingzhou, only 20 minutes away from the Software Park, but he is reluctant to spend so little time. He began to plan that when the project is completed, he should try to get in touch with different projects and learn more. He will definitely stay here for less than a year and then he can jump to other companies.
Two days before the delivery date. He worked overtime until 12:30 pm and waited for the car to go home downstairs of the company. The supervisor suddenly called, and he answered it, and then heard the bad news: "Party A has changed the needs." He was stunned at the moment and didn't fall asleep all night.
Same is true for Xie Fei. His sales company business is very simple, but it is difficult for him to deal with when he just came out of the training school. Xie Fei always secretly searched the Internet for how to type a certain code. The only programmer colleague in the company sat beside him and came over from time to time to ask him how he was going. He quickly forked the web page, for fear that the other party would see it. After he adapted to the pace of the company, he quickly realized that there would be no progress in working like this. He looked for a job again and joined a human resources outsourcing company without any choice.
When in the training school, one day the teacher said that a graduate student brought back a job opportunity and asked everyone to go and see it. After going there, he realized that the so-called job was to go to Cambodia to develop gambling software. He thought that human resources outsourcing companies were at least better than the illegal gambling industry. Xie Fei didn't even know where the company he signed was addressed. His on-site work provided by Party A does not belong to Party A in the contract and does not belong to Party B in the position. No one can provide him with a sense of belonging.
What awaits Xie Fei is the usual overtime work and endless projects, and he cannot see how what he has done is published and used. Outsourcing employees do not have to pay for overtime work. The boss often posts tasks at four or five in the afternoon. When they are finished, they can only catch the last bus of the subway.
"It's like typing codes in the air", he described it like this. "You are just a human resource, like a table or a chair, you can be replaced at will."
▲Picture / Visual China
futility
A takeaway platform once filmed a promotional video about a programmer delivering food to an Internet company. When he saw a problem with the code, he sat down like a savior from the sky to help them eliminate bugs. "Take takeaway is just to move your muscles." The programmer in the promotional video showed a bright smile at the camera.
is better to deliver takeaway than to
- this is a joke that Xu Liang and his colleagues often make.After two or three months of joining the company, his initial passion faded. On the night after work, he lay tiredly on the bed, often thinking of this joke in self-deprecatingly: delivery of food is to carry food, and he is to carry codes, and he does not produce new things.
Sometimes he wants to optimize the program, but he feels it is unnecessary. He will not receive additional rewards for creating better quality programs. He has only one goal in his work, which is to complete the task. He has too many tasks to breathe. His best way to relieve stress is to fantasize how to resign handsomely and how to anger the supervisor he dislikes. After working for half a year, his colleagues have changed a group of people, and the college student with good skills has also resigned.
About May this year, Xu Liang's right wrist began to hurt, and it was difficult to lift his hand when he typed the code. It should be tenosynovitis, and his colleagues confirmed that he was diagnosed. Xu Liang was unwilling to go to the hospital. He had only worked for less than a year and said he had tenosynovitis and was pretentious.
That day, it rained heavily in Shenzhen. A project ended a few days ago. The new project had not arrived yet. Everyone in the company looked lazy. Xu Liang reviewed the 10 months of work. "I write this kind of dirty thing every day, and it gets dirty every day." Similar thoughts lingered in his heart. "Dirty" is a word programmers use to describe excessive redundant code. He looked around and suddenly couldn't stand this lifeless atmosphere, and the scene of resignation that he had imagined in the past appeared in front of him. He walked to the supervisor's office, "Boss, I want to talk to you about resigning." "Okay." After listening to him quietly, the supervisor said nothing to keep him. He quickly explained what to do and sent him out of the office door.
Xu Liang walked out of the company building and it rained harder. Everything returned to the starting point, he thought. The work experience of an outsourcing company is not a good plus. In this industry, an outsourcing company is equivalent to a low technical content. Now looking for a job, it is very likely that he will join another outsourcing company. He ran three or four interviews and gave up.
He didn't have many classmates in training school contacts him. The closest one initially went to a startup company, but was later fired and once again entered the vortex of finding a job. He vaguely heard that the only female classmate in the class had returned to her hometown to get married. "Most students are like this. After working for a year or two, they will return to their original industry." Teacher Cao said.
Teacher Cao taught an amateur class. He had a student named Zhao who worked in a CNC factory. In order to get the opportunity to attend classes every night, he found a relationship and asked the supervisor to arrange all the working hours he had worked in three shifts during the day. He slept for three or four hours a day. At the beginning, he was the best one in his class and was very talented. But Teacher Cao still saw his spirit extinguishing little by little. Not everyone can stick to this kind of life. Classmate Zhao gradually couldn't hold on in class and began to doze off. At first, Teacher Cao would wake him up, but then he couldn't bear to disturb him. After for more than half a year, he gradually couldn't keep up with the pace of work and dropped out of school.
Xu Liang also felt confused. He finally understood that the "myth" Sun Ling was just a very rare example. For most people, going to a training school and being a low-level programmer is more of a futile leap. Do you want to deliver food? He began to think about it seriously, with the only concern that his right wrist would cause constant pain even if he stopped typing on the keyboard.
▲A part-time programmer who delivered food on the road opened the computer to adjust the code. Picture / Visual China
(At the request of the interviewee, all except Sun Ling are pseudonyms.)
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