A young, thin man with glasses, carrying a casual bag and wearing a baggy sweatshirt, walked on Wensan Road in the west of Qiantang City. As he walked, he took out his phone and checked the address on the text message.

His name is Zhu Haibo, 24 years old, a native of Qiantang.

Zhu Haibo was not admitted to Qianjiang University in the college entrance examination that year, and he disdained to study in other schools in the province, so he drifted north. went to Beijing Normal University to study applied mathematics; After graduating from the bachelor's degree, he stayed in Beijing and worked as a programmer for Sohu for two years.

When he graduated in 01, Sohu was still quite shaky in China. After all, at that time, Baidu had only been established for a year, and its status was not obvious; However, just two years later, Sohu was overshadowed by Baidu in terms of search.

In the future, the entertainment industry that gave Sohu a second spring has not yet developed at the moment, and it is a period of transition, and a large number of programmers need to face the adjustment of their work tasks.

Anyone who has ever been a programmer knows that the adjustment of the company's R&D direction means that the programmer's brain has accumulated a large amount of accumulated knowledge and needs to be re-learned. Even if the salary does not fall, it will be a chance to increase in a year or two.

In this case, if the whole industry is in a recession, the knowledge accumulated by themselves is irreversible and permanent, and the programmers will endure it - just like before Gu Mojie was reborn, the 360 mobile phone assistant appeared, and all the work of programmers in China to solve the "mobile phone-PC communication compatibility problem" was eliminated, and the programmers could only choose to go against the grain.

However, what Zhu Haibo encountered was a structural outrage, which was different from what Gu Mojie encountered before he was reborn.

Because the skills of writing search engine-related code are not outdated, but there is a bit of excess in Sohu. If he can jump ship to Baidu, he can still show his strengths.

It's a pity that Baidu is not so easy to go, and Sohu is aggrieved. Zhu Haibo felt that Beipiao was tired, so he went back to his hometown to try his luck. He had high school classmates working in Ahri Group, so he asked his old classmates to introduce some opportunities.

This introduction hit Zhou Lixin's sight. Zhou Lixin knew that Gu Mojie was recruiting programmers, and after a little identification, he extended an olive branch to Zhu Haibo.

Zhu Haibo initially heard that the other party was a start-up company that had just been established, and he instinctively refused. However, later he saw that the salary of the other party was more generous than that of large companies, and he also came up with evidence and said that "the 'universal input method' that became popular in China in the first half of the year was written by the boss of this company himself", and at this time, Zhu Haibo was moved.

After all, programmers are looking for a job, on the one hand, they want to pay well in a strong company, and on the other hand, they also want to work under a knowledgeable boss. If you meet a boss who doesn't understand technology at all and doesn't respect technicians, even if you have a lot of money, it will make technical nerds feel aggrieved.

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"Eastern Software Park...... Well, that's it; 3 buildings in Area B......"

Zhu Haibo looked at the text messages on his mobile phone and found the ground all the way.

However, the further he went, the colder his heart became; This office building looks quite bright from the outside, but why is the company he is going to so far away? Is there only one or two offices?

People who are used to a big company like Sohu, plus they are technology nerds, will inevitably have resistance to the "leather bag company".

The elevator sat on the ninth floor, and Zhu Haibo read all the signs on the curtain wall of the elevator front hall, but there was no company he was coming to today. After turning two corners and searching carefully, he saw the LOGO of "Hatsune Network Technology" pasted on the two open glass doors, and Zhu Haibo was glad that he had not found the wrong place.

The company logo is actually pasted on the glass door! What's going on? If the door is open, you won't see the LOGO at all if you don't look closely!

When I entered the door, there was not even a receptionist, and I could no longer find any sign that could prove the identity of this company. Directly on the opposite door are two rows of more than a dozen office seats, where computers are placed, and only two or three people are there to clean up Zhang Luo, and they don't know what to do, and they are definitely not programmers anyway. Well, maybe it's the clerk in the digital city next door who is here to help customers install systems and office software, right?

Only the two corners are separated by glass into two small single rooms of more than ten square meters; Looking at the signboard above, one is the financial room, and the other is the independent office area of the company's leaders.

Zhu Haibo could clearly see a figure busy in the boss's office through the half-frosted glass partition wall, and there were several cabinet servers piled up in the corner of the cubicle!

After a closer look, he was gone, and the pile of things was not all servers, and one of them was clearly a cabinet air conditioner, mixed in it.

You know, the heat of the server is much larger than that of ordinary desktop computers, and it is possible to consume several kilowatts of heat consumption. But it's the end of summer right now, even if there is an air conditioner blowing directly on the side...... The sourness of the office environment is not daring to think about it at all.

Before Zhu Haibo had time to look around the scene inside, he saw a man and a woman sitting in the rest area coming up to talk, the man looked more familiar, and introduced: "You are also here to apply?" My name is Du Junqiang, graduated from Qiantang Normal University, studied computer science, and have been a programmer for three years. Her name is Teng Xiaojuan, and she is my former colleague, and we changed jobs together. ”

Zhu Haibo didn't get used to it all of a sudden, so he put the phone back in his pocket first, wiped his hands off his clothes, and then stretched out to shake his hand: "Fortunately." My name is Zhu Haibo, graduated from Beijing Normal University, entered the industry for two years, originally in the capital, just came back. ”

While talking, he slandered in his heart: Qiantang Teacher? How many colleges and universities are there? Is this the only place to recruit programmers of this calibre? Are you in the wrong place?

Du Junqiang saw that Zhu Haibo's expression was a little suspicious and disdainful, he also had a bit of social experience, so he naturally knew that the other party was looking down on him with his academic qualifications. He has seen this kind of gaze a lot, and he doesn't care about it. In his heart, Ah Q comforted himself: "What's wrong with Hangzhou Normal School?" That's Ma Feng's alma mater. ”

Zhu Haibo waited for more than ten seconds, and when he saw that there was still only Du Junqiang talking nonsense with him, he couldn't help it: "There's no one in charge here?" Who is in charge of our interviews? ”

Du Junqiang pointed to the glass compartment and whispered: "Mr. Zhou, who called us, heard that I am still working on Taobao, and I am younger than us." This is just Mr. Zhou's private work, so he can't run away today. It should be Mr. Gu who is in charge of us directly, and when we came, he just answered the phone and asked us to sit for a while. Do you drink drinks? Let's pour ourselves a little."

Du Junqiang said, pointing to the bottle of fruit orange on the coffee table in the rest area, and there was a stack of disposable cups next to it.

Zhu Haibo sneered: Many small companies and small firms, in order to appear that they are busy with business, they like to play a little trick when someone comes to apply, so that the applicant feels that the company is very promising.

"See how long you can pretend, if it's really a leather bag company, you will leave immediately. Whoever introduces the situation doesn't work! ”