Xueba's computing system

Chapter 18: Building an aircraft carrier, getting started with screwing

A few days after this incident, Lin Yuan quit his tutoring job.

This decision had nothing to do with that incident. It was because Professor Zhang found him an internship.

Previously, because the admission letter had not been officially issued, Lin Yuan's resume from Sugar City Industrial College was not enough to get an internship opportunity at a large company. And Professor Zhang was not the kind of person who was willing to use his old face.

Professor Zhang has been teaching for decades, and many of his students are now doing well in the IT industry. He gave Lin Yuan several choices, and in the end Lin Yuan chose his old profession - food delivery.

Of course, I'm not delivering food this time. After all, in Professor Zhang's eyes, tutoring is not a proper job. How can I waste my youth in a field that only makes money but does not help me grow?

This time, Lin Yuan went to Haotuan for takeout.

His choice is somewhat humorous - taking root in the takeout industry can be regarded as not forgetting his original intention.

Of course, the real reason is that the pace of Internet companies is faster. And because food delivery is an industry with huge demand, Lin Yuan can use this opportunity to get in touch with the large-scale application of big data and AI.

Lin Yuan absolutely does not believe that AI is not involved in scenarios such as takeout, where the profit per item is low but the order volume is huge. The key is to what extent AI has penetrated into it, which is what Lin Yuan is most curious about.

So in early August, Lin Yuan took his real admission letter and went to the Haotuan Takeout branch in Zijin City.

Haotuan Waimai's headquarters is located in Beijing, and its R&D core is also mainly in Beijing. Located in Zijin City is a server cluster and data center that radiates the southeast region.

The Zijin branch of Haotuan Takeout is located in the High-tech Industrial Park of Hexi New District. After Lin Yuan completed various procedures, he received an intern employee card on the same day.

He even played with this employee card for a while.

The overall style of the card is still mainly yellow, and the long-eared koala that is the logo of Haotuan Waimai is printed on the back of the card with a smile. On the front of the card is a half-length photo of Lin Yuan, as well as his department and position.

【Department: Technology Department. 】

【Position: Data maintenance (internship).】

The head of the department was very busy at work. After a quick meeting with Lin Yuan, he threw Lin Yuan to an old employee.

After a day, Lin Yuan also had some understanding of his position.

Since the core R&D is not here, the main responsibility of Zijin's technical department is to collect and organize data, and then package the processed data and submit it to Jingshi's R&D headquarters. Another responsibility is to undertake the model deployment task of the headquarters.

Haotuan is a national company. It is impossible for it to concentrate its data centers in one place, so it has set up several data centers across the country.

Zijin Branch is just one of them, but because Zijin Branch serves the southeast region, which happens to be the core area of the national economy, the status of Zijin Branch is also very good.

Lin Yuan had just arrived and was an intern, so it was impossible for him to be entrusted with any important work.

He thought he might be responsible for some simple tasks like CURD, but in fact the work he was responsible for was even simpler than CURD.

The so-called CURD is the first letters of the four basic operations of the database: add (Create), delete (Delete), modify (Update), and query (Read).

CURD can be said to be the foundation of the basic skills of IT practitioners. The industry even jokingly refers to newcomers to the industry as "CURD engineers".

It can be said that Lin Yuan had made some mental preparations. He did not expect to be able to command great achievements when he came to the Haotuan for internship, but the reality was even worse than he thought. . .

It was not that it was more difficult, but that it was simpler than he thought. Haotuan already had a complete set of processes for data processing, as well as relevant operating specifications and software tools. Lin Yuan's job was to follow suit, use the existing software tools to refer to the operating specifications, process the data, and then submit the results.

One of the most time-consuming tasks is actually writing reports.

After a week, Lin Yuan didn't write a single line of code in Haotuan. He was completely immersed in various meeting arrangements and reports.

This is not a deliberate targeting by the good team, but rather that large companies have already formed a complete set of work processes. What kind of people come in, what positions they are assigned to do, what kind of work, are all fixed in this set of processes.

Although Lin Yuan had Professor Zhang's recommendation, he was unable to break this process.

It can even be said that if it weren't for Professor Zhang's recommendation, Lin Yuan would have no chance to come here for internship. Because in today's economic environment, the good group is not short of people at all, but is still laying off employees.

Although Lin Yuan was not very satisfied with his internship, others were very envious of him.

At a time when cost reduction and efficiency improvement are the main themes, hiring outsourced personnel has become a common strategy for major IT companies. This is also the case with Haotuan’s Zijin branch.

Just a few days after Lin Yuan arrived here, he already felt the difference in the working atmosphere.

Regular employees usually don’t hang out with outsourced staff. When they have overtime dinner at night, regular old employees in the department will naturally invite Lin Yuan to join them, but outsourced staff will never be seen at such private dinners.

Of course, during the daytime working meals, the divisions are not so clear, and everyone talks and laughs when they get along with each other.

But Lin Yuan could sense that slight estrangement as long as he paid a little attention.

This feeling is like that of locals and outsiders, because you never know when outsiders will leave, and the high mobility of outsourced workers is very similar to outsiders, so regular employees who are locals are less likely to interact with them.

Even though he was unhappy at work, the treatment of the first-tier Internet companies really made Lin Yuan feel comfortable.

On the first day of employment, I received a one-time internship living allowance of 3000 yuan, a housing allowance of 3000 yuan that was supposedly paid every two weeks, and a commuting allowance of 600 yuan for the month. In other words, I received 6600 yuan without doing anything.

This does not even include his internship salary.

Lin Yuan's internship period is one month, and his salary is at the standard of a 211 graduate student - a basic salary of 8000 yuan, plus performance appraisal.

In short, even if the performance appraisal is 0, it is still 8000 yuan.

Lin Yuan felt dazed when seeing such treatment.

He recalled the days when he worked hard delivering food, and wondered if the 6600 yuan he just received also reflected his sweat.

Lin Yuan did study hard and was admitted as a graduate student of Zijin Aviation School, which gave him the opportunity he has today.

However, he knew very well that the current job was so complex that he didn't need to work so hard to master it. The delivery guy himself could do it. In fact, the outsourced workers could do it too.

Lin Yuan couldn't help but vaguely feel a reality: the threshold is to be able to build an aircraft carrier, and after getting started, you might just be able to screw in screws.

God knows why it is like this.

(End of this chapter)