Rewrite the Technological Landscape

With his own computer, Meng Qian said hello to Ali. He didn't go to the company for the next three days, and got the system design done at home first.

Three days later, when Meng Qian brought his system design plan to Li Qi, Li Qi fell into a long silence. Just as Meng Qian guessed, Li Qi actually had his own ideas about this CRM system, but when he When he received Meng Qian's system design, he felt the most intuitive feature, simplicity.

Li Qi, who has a technical background, admires the simplicity of this design. Programming itself is a cumbersome task, especially in this era. Li Qi is too clear about how many programmers pursue simplicity.

Programming is not like writing novels. It’s not about writing millions of lines of code. If it is possible to replace hundreds of thousands of lines of code with hundreds of lines of code, no programmer will reject this convenience. Meng Qian's design is like a stream of clear spring seen in a quagmire, which makes people feel comfortable.

"Mr. Meng, did you learn this design idea from here?" Although it felt a bit inappropriate, Li Qi couldn't help asking.

"Learn more, watch more and summarize more." Meng Qian responded casually. He has a general idea of ​​his design level. How bright.

Compared with those geniuses who are ten-year-old who are trying to get a doctorate or twelve-year-old who are engaged in nuclear reactions, my extraordinary performance is nothing. As long as I can control my behavior within the scope that can be explained by geniuses, there is no big problem.

Moreover, it is actually very difficult to break through the category of genius with only the reincarnated self.

"Oh, by the way, Mr. Li, don't call me Mr. Meng from now on. I always feel it sounds weird. Just call me Xiao Meng."

Meng Qian suddenly mentioned this point, which interrupted Li Qi's thoughts, and when he returned to the previous mood, he suddenly didn't know what to continue asking.

In fact, Li Qi couldn't help but investigate Meng Qian a little out of curiosity. Meng Qian's past is naturally very ordinary, but fortunately he is also considered a top student. Big, which makes Li Qi more or less accepting of his genius.

After all, it is normal for Huaxia Education to suppress pre-university talents

Suddenly feeling that it was not good to ask more questions, Li Qi put his thoughts in his heart, "Let's go, let's communicate with colleagues in the technical department."

The system was designed by Meng Qian, and the explanation was naturally given by him. A speech is a must for a mature architect. It is no pressure for Meng Qian to explain such a relatively simple CRM system architecture.

After listening to Meng Qian's speech, the programmers in the technical department also gave high praise and doubts to his system design ability.

A mature architect is not only a question of ability, but also a question of experience. Why does Meng Qian give people a feeling of rich experience?

Several people who were close to Li Qi secretly glanced at Li Qi, and the latter signaled them not to ask more questions with his eyes.

Li Qi was naturally interested in the secrets about Meng Qian, but some things should not be too impatient, for fear of causing some bad consequences.

After understanding Meng Qian's design concept, we went directly to the link of arranging work. Everyone started typing codes according to their respective modules, and the development of the Ali CRM system began like this.

In the next few days, apart from going back to school to take an exam, Meng Qian stayed with Ali for the rest of the time.

Speaking of exams, Meng Qian might not be able to get a scholarship in this life like his previous life, and he might have to drop out of school.

But that's all for later.

For the past few days in Ali, Meng Qian has been working with the programmers to discuss the progress of the entire project.

And his behavior gave programmers a new understanding of Meng Qian. Regarding this new understanding, I have to mention the Chinese characteristic architect.

From the perspective of the general environment of later generations, most architects in China have an obvious characteristic, that is, they are out of touch with programmers. Architects are more likely to undertake work at a design level, and throw away after the design is completed. Let the programmers below do it, and I just need to stare at the timeline to check the progress regularly.

However, this kind of detached architect has always been controversial, because for architects, if you just design something, you don’t care about it later. Various troubles will continue to emerge in the process of working, and these troubles cannot be dealt with in a timely manner.

Architects only have to keep up with the progress of the project after the design is completed. It does not necessarily mean that they have to participate in the programming work themselves, but at least they should have a clear understanding of the programming work and communicate with the programmers at any time about design ideas and problem solving. Communicate and revise with the demand side in a timely manner on some unrealizable technologies, so that the developed things will be better.

But why do most architects seem to be reluctant to do this? There are two main reasons. The first is that architects and programmers are divided into two positions from the learning side. The focus and direction of learning are completely different. There were no architects in the early days in China, and a large number of architects appeared later. Job vacancies.

Moreover, many of these gaps do not come from powerful scientific research companies like BAT. It may be a start-up company with a total investment of less than 500,000 yuan and a team of no more than five people. How many of the architects recruited by these companies come from? You can boldly imagine one time.

0 basis, three months, including work

In fact, the proportion of people like Meng Qian who started as a programmer step by step and slowly became an architect for more than ten years is not high.

Of course, it is undeniable that many small companies also want architects like Meng Qian, but they cannot recruit them, so they can only try their luck among those architects.

Another very important reason is the market environment. For most small and medium-sized enterprises, it is difficult for them to have decent large projects, so they naturally pay architects according to the project. You get a commission for the project, and you get ten commissions if you have the ability to take on ten projects.

For the architects of these companies, the purpose of my part-time job is to make money, and the final things I made can be used up. If the customer is not satisfied, let the salesman communicate. There is no time to focus on the project, and the project does not pay much money.

Then after the general environment gradually changed to this, customers also had to adapt. It seemed that no matter what company they were looking for, companies like BAT couldn’t afford it. The design at the beginning is a little different, so it's a little different.

If people who are not in touch with this industry are not very intuitive about this phenomenon, it is easy to understand it with another example. Whose house is decorated with the same design drawing as the designer gave you at the beginning?

Thank goodness for being half the same.

The designer only needs to make the design drawings to make you feel good and sign the bill. When the decoration master starts construction later, there will be a lot of problems. He will call you every three days to make changes. After the final house inspection and acceptance, hey, this damn Is the blueprint I saw a thing?

Then, all the money has been paid, the decoration has been completed, and the house can be lived in, and there is a little bit of "teaching" from the sales staff in the middle, what should I do? What else can I do, just like this

Because for the people in the design post, they are all commissioned from the order. In the era when everyone looks at money, how to make money is how to do it.

Looking back at these two reasons, they are actually a vicious circle that complements each other.

However, even a large number of big names in the industry, including Alipay architect Feng Dahui, have pointed out this problem in public.

But in the era of market economy, it is difficult to make much change.

However, regarding this issue, there is no need to blindly worship the ingenuity of foreign countries. For a while, Meng Qian thought that foreign architects were very ingenious, and when he was working on a project, he had to do a good job. Later, he went to the West on business trips from time to time to find out that Others have no choice, because they have their market environment.

Even if a Western architect wants to take more orders, no one will work for him, because no one is willing to work overtime. In some Western countries, it is even difficult for you to find an outsourcing company. Unlike China, all walks of life are Outsourcing companies are full of cheap labor. As long as you have an order, you are not afraid that no one will work.

The so-called ingenuity of doing one thing throughout one's life in the West is actually just because you don't know what to do, and the market competition is not as big as China's. If you do it, you will do it for a lifetime.

Of course, there are people with real ingenuity, but there are also such people in China, but they are more in some fields that people don't pay so much attention to.

Therefore, Meng Qian has always claimed that he is a lucky architect, because he does not need to constantly pick up projects, he only needs to be responsible for one or two core projects. Of course, this is also a two-way choice The thing is, if his company wasn't like this, Meng Qian wouldn't go there at all.

For Meng Qian, his interest and attention to the project itself is higher.

With this background, Meng Qian has shown his excellent control ability, detail grasp ability, project decomposition ability, personnel planning ability and so on in the process of rushing the project progress with several programmers like Ali these days.

This increased the appreciation and respect for Meng Qian from the people who had only seen Meng Qian that day. From the beginning, in everyone's opinion, at Meng Qian's age, he was able to come up with such an excellent design because of He has a talent for it.

This is like some people who are very talented in writing books. They don’t need to read too many books. They can become great writers just by observing life and writing after writing. This is a talent that cannot be envied.

However, Meng Qian's solid programming foundation and strong ability to control projects make everyone feel that he is not just a genius, but also seems to be very experienced, which means that he must have invested a lot in this field Energy, and considering his age, everyone thinks he must be working hard.

No matter which era it is, everyone admires geniuses and respects hard work more, and hardworking geniuses are the most admirable and the most daunting.

Everyone's name for Meng Qian has also changed from Xiaomeng at the beginning to Brother Xiaomeng now.

On the ninth day after the project started, Meng Qian needed to go back to school for two days to take the exam. In the morning of this day, Li Qi hurried into Ma Yun's office, "Old Ma, Ying Haiwei wants to see Meng Qian?"

"Well, I heard it is." Ma Yun looked much calmer.

Li Qi seemed a little dissatisfied, "Why didn't you tell me about this earlier?"

"I haven't been on a business trip for two days, no, we already guessed that Meng Qian would meet other people, why are you reacting so strongly?"

Li Qi just sat down, waved his hands, and said with a look that you don't understand, "Let me tell you, this Meng Qian can bring me surprises every day, I don't think he is a genius, he is a ghost, no matter what It’s vision, courage, technology, character, impeccable, you don’t understand technology, you don’t understand, I’m not exaggerating, if he was born 40 years earlier, he might have nothing to do with Bill Gates.”

"Yo, how long has it been so high? Didn't you tell me to guard against him before?" Ma Yun joked.

"It's true that Fang is still on guard, but we can't just watch him run to other people's houses. This is the treasure we discovered first. In all fairness, in the previous situation, the annual consulting fee of 500,000 yuan was paid by the whole of China. How many companies can do it?"

"It can't be said that way. We are actually not that courageous. According to the contract, if the system he built fails to meet the basic assessment standards, we will recover the 100,000 yuan."

"Hey, old horse, what's the matter with you today?" Li Qi looked unhappy, "Do you always dislike Meng Qian or me?"

"Don't blame me. I admire Meng Qian very much. Do you think I don't want such a talent to enter Ali? But think about it yourself. If Meng Qian is really a super genius on the technical side, what can we give him now? Why? Did he start a research institute? Are you here to pay for it?"

Ma Yun's playful expression gradually became serious, "As you said, I don't understand technology. The first thing that attracted me to Meng Qian was his insight into the Internet, and even to put it a little bit mysteriously, his personality charm. Right taste.

But it was you telling me about his talent every day these two days that brought me back to reality and made me realize that he is a technical genius, so what can we bring to him now?

Judging from the company's short-term development plan, the current cooperation method is indeed a good choice. As for the future, I believe we will have a place for Meng Qian to display his talents. "

After listening to Ma Yun, Li Qi actually understood it very well, because he had the same mental journey as Ma Yun. When he first met Meng Qian, he felt that he was a talent with technical skills and a little bit of operational ability. Maybe he was a genius. Although Ali is not a technology company, at least network security, website optimization, and internal systems need someone to do it. Naturally, the idea of ​​​​recruiting Meng Qian came up.

Ma Yun even had the idea of ​​seeing if he could tap into Meng Qian's operational talent. But during this time, when Meng Qian really started to show his strength, both Ma Yun and Li Qi realized that Meng Qian's ability had been exceeding their expectations.

The reason why Ma Yun mentioned that according to the contract that Meng Qian should recover 100,000 yuan if the system does not do well is also to remind Li Qi that the two of them were not as optimistic about Meng Qian as they are now.

But when he saw Meng Qian's more strength now, Ma Yun thought that recruiting Meng Qian would be a waste of genius. Not reconciled, "But in the future, Meng Qian may already belong to someone else's family."

"So I thought of a best countermeasure."

"What countermeasure?" Li Qi's attention was immediately concentrated.

"Let it be."

"Your uncle!" Li Qi said like Ma Yun, "Old Ma, why don't we just set up a technical department, I will bring Meng Qian in, and then go find a team?"

Ma Yun paused while pouring tea, "Li Qi, you won't forget why I came to you, right? Do you really think of yourself as a technician? Don't turn my expectations of you into bubbles. Focus on me."

"Hey." Li Qi sighed, and leaned back on the chair, "I know, I know, I just feel so sorry."

Ma Yun handed a cup of brewed tea to Li Qi, "Twisted melons are not sweet. Besides, the relationship between people is not just employment."

Li Qi looked at Ma Yun, and suddenly slapped his thigh, "That's right!"

Ma Yun, "???"

Seeing Li Qi's upbeat expression, Ma Yun felt that this guy seemed to have misunderstood what he said.