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Hello everyone, my name is Li Jing, and I am a front-end engineer from the Technology Department of Amoy.
The days in Ali passed by too quickly, and five years have slipped away in the blink of an eye with the sound of coding on the fingertips and keyboards. In the past five years, I have turned from a young boy to a father of a girl, and I have also changed from being a little introverted The graduates have evolved into “bearded uncles” who can both code and tear.
People can be tired, but the heart cannot be tired
When I first joined the company, as a technical rookie, I was in charge of the PC version of Taobao homepage. This business is very special. It has a large audience and hundreds of millions of traffic every day. Although the complexity of the system is not very high, the risk is particularly high. And I need to negotiate with many, many, many people. When I took over, the business has undergone some changes. The workload is heavy and the pressure is also great. There are pressures from the business side and technical challenges. During that time, one or two consecutive During the month, I worked overtime until I went home around 1:00 p.m., and I might receive calls from the business side after 1:00 p.m.
One night, at about 11 o’clock, only my supervisor and I were left on the whole floor, optimizing a technical detail issue, and he had actually been with me for almost a week. The exhaustion of many days made me burst out all of a sudden. That night, I choked up and cried, and finally couldn’t cry. The supervisor was beside me, and he didn’t talk much. It is very tiring, but people can be tired, but the heart cannot be tired.”
In the past few years, I have been remembering this past event, and I have engraved that sentence deeply in my heart. Since then, whether it is work or life, I will try my best to maintain a good attitude, and whenever I feel tired, I will try to adjust myself.
When work and life are intertwined, it is easy to bring the emotions in life to work, and the unsatisfactory hearts will occupy the brain like a virus and overwhelm our psychological defense. Learn to stand a little farther and look at the present. In fact, everything will disappear. Life and work will not be dimmed because of a little thing. There is still a long way to go.
Do you believe?
When you can’t see the way ahead, what motivates you is the word “believe”.
I vaguely remember that when I first came to Ali for a year or two, there was always a senior leader leading me, so I didn’t have to worry about getting lost at all. But I don’t know when it started, the senior brother seemed to become a cloud of smoke and spread in front of my eyes. Only then did I realize that, The road ahead needs to be walked by yourself. There are more and more questions to think about, and less and less input to get. I can’t count how many times I have lost sight of the way forward, but every time I see a glimmer of hope, I will hold on tightly and keep going. .
In the year when I was in the store business, our team had fewer people and more work. I was responsible for the technical support related to ISV opening. The old technical system had to be transitioned and new directions had to be explored. During the planning period, I could see a bunch of headaches turning around in my mind even when I closed my eyes. Later, we decided to improve the developer experience and chose a very difficult one. Technical area – IDE editor. At the beginning, I refused in my heart. I thought I couldn’t handle it, but there were really not many ways to choose.
Let’s transfer, but when you think about it, if this bone is not broken, it will be difficult to make a qualitative breakthrough in the experience supported by ISV technology, and the pressure on the team will be even greater; It’s almost done, everyone has entered the deep water area, and there are not so many bones to chew on. After a few deep breaths, I decided to muster up the courage and do it down-to-earth.
During those six months, there were times of pain and times of excitement. Fortunately, it helped ISVs solve some problems in practical scenarios as expected.
Of course, belief is also conditional. When I list things clearly, I have more belief; when I make a little effect, I have more belief; when I get the attention of the brother team and seek cooperation The intention, I know, the original persistence was right. Think boldly, seek evidence carefully, and believe steadily forward, and the road ahead will become clearer and clearer.
Give work a little more meaning
Front-line R&D work is not always full of fun and challenges. It can be said that most of the daily time is spent dealing with trivial, seemingly inconspicuous, dirty, hard, and tiring work. If the mind is not open, it is like being imprisoned in a cage, unable to see the upstream and downstream relationships, and unable to see the value and significance of doing this.
The meaning of work is never given by others, but by oneself. I was persuaded by others, so I did it; I saw a problem, so I did it; I experienced pain and empathy, so I did it. Every line of code, every optimization, and every change is expected to make our users feel better. When users feel better, we feel better.
The recent work is to solve the R&D experience and efficiency problems related to front-end engineering. Almost every day, I hear the voices of R&D students from different BUs, hear their complaints, and hear their praises. They will not express all of their aspirations Come out, but follow the feedback to see what makes them love it, what makes them feel miserable, and then make some changes. This may be the more meaning I give to work; instead of being like a screw, mechanical all day long Solve various needs from users, supervisors, and partners in a timely manner.
The world has not changed much, but looking at the world from a different perspective may make a big difference.
Five years, mixed flavors
In our life, there are many five years, neither long nor short. Here, I spent the first five years after working, and the content was very rich, which also made me realize that in the future, I need to plan a staged life with a longer span.
Thanks for the past five years, thanks to the people around me, and thanks to Alibaba, I have benefited a lot~
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