Decrypts the Baidu Im Project Team's "Special Forces"

"Baidu Hi is not afraid of anything ."

This is what Xiao Yu of RD (the same below) said. He is an old employee of Baidu. He said that doing im has made him realize the real difficulties and hard work, I have also realized the joy and glory of doubling. Now, in the face of any problems, the courage and confidence are no longer "the first child is not afraid of tigers", but "as long as you have a firm belief, with the support of the team, the problem cannot be solved."

"Baidu has made im products in such a short period of time. The difficulty coefficient of this product can be said to be higher than many of our products, and Baidu has no experience. In the same period of time, what others left behind was the failure case, but Baidu came out !" Before officially interviewing the IM engineer team, the insider told simple weekly.

Leader minghai from this team told us, "At the beginning, there were very few people in the department, except for IM and other R & D projects. We just took this job, at that time, I was a little scared. Everyone had only one feeling, that was exciting."
However, with the development of R & D, when the overwhelming MRD was under pressure, we realized that this would be a very difficult project, but now it seems that, at that time, we still predict the difficulties we will encounter in the future.

Because the initial system was not well-considered, we found that the more patches, the more difficult the system was. The mines that had been laid for future maintenance would be feared. If we had to make the original plan, we could make a mistake at this time, but in the end, everyone unified their thinking-taking the huge pressure of restructuring and deciding to modify the system, and doing so will do the most perfect thing they can, and never disappoint hundreds of millions of users in the future.

The engineers swallowed the added Work Traffic, finally with hi crossing the mountains, rushed through the dark tunnel, ushered in the light.

"I work harder, while others rest and I work harder"

"Baidu developed IM from scratch, so it can only be 'others' who work harder, while others rest and work harder '". Indeed, the engineers are a little tired, but the tired looks just a face. They are so passionate about the spirit of IM.

Recall that when I first joined the IM team, engineer Xiao Hong said that he was "not afraid of tigers"-"There is nothing to do, just thinking about how to do better ". Mr. Hong remembers that he left at when he first arrived at Baidu. Company Soon, he found that this was "leaving early" because all his colleagues were busy until 11 o'clock.

Xiao Hong's experience is quite typical among engineers. Many people are excited to participate in an important new project such as IM and work around the clock. "Now I have found that I have made progress every day and accumulated a lot of experience over the past six months. It is worth it ." Said Mr. Wang, an engineer.

It is said that PM Xiaoding's cell phone has a classic "Sleeping phase photo", which was taken by his colleague Xiao Liu. On that day, when Liu arrived at the company in the morning, he saw Ding sleeping on the desk and picked up his cell phone. Later, he realized that Ding had been busy at the company that night to change MRD.

"Why don't we talk to RD about giving MRD to them in batches? Baidu does not encourage employees to stay up late and work overtime at work. Why do they destroy themselves so much ?"

"If I cannot give my RD colleagues tonight, the progress of the RD will be affected and the entire project will be affected. ." When I say this from Ding's mouth, I don't feel a little pretentious.

"It is much better to stay up late than to write MRD every day for the first two months," recalled PM's ding. "At that time," the company got into the meeting room at and came out at 8 o'clock, write MRD every day. In order to make the product user experience more perfect, sometimes a function can be discussed for three days, or from time to time there will be high-level discussions, constantly brainstorm ......" "At that time, the IM team was still in the Yinke work zone. The whole feeling was that the sun never rose in Yinke ."

Throughout the R & D process, we have a lot of experiences. One of the most mentioned is teamwork. Xiao Hong tells us with his own experiences that if he doesn't help others do a good job, sooner or later, it will also affect your progress.

Yongjie said that when he first came, he had to interrupt someone to ask a question every half hour, but he was never rejected. Xiao Peng told us that during the most difficult period, every day we had to solve a lot of bugs raised by QA, but every night, yuzuo sticks to his position and picks up every ball, never letting it land on the ground. He is also full of confidence and strength.

"It's not so much my job as my career"

Dump Lu is the RD team leader, but another nickname is "capitalist ". It turns out that every time there is a new task, dump Lu will keep asking for reminders, reminding everyone to "ensure the progress ". When Im enters the final testing stage, RD engineer Guo's life can be summarized with "massive code and massive bugs, he ran to communicate with QA about Bug solutions almost every 30 minutes.

Engineer Xiao Hou, who has previously worked in IM in other companies, came to Baidu and found that he was very tired, but everyone was passionate every day, which infected him deeply. "The biggest motivation is to be able to get involved from the beginning. Baidu IM is not so much my job as my career ."

Xiaojin also said: "In Baidu, I think I am proving that I can do one thing, not work for the Enterprise ."

It is this enthusiasm that pushes engineers to remain optimistic and indomitable under both physical and work pressures.

When talking about these "past events", in the face of the eyes of the "brothers", there was a slight apology on the face of the face. "This time is indeed a lot of pressure, thank you !" Minghai revealed the mystery: the entire project's code volume is more than twice as much as originally estimated. It can be said that it is one of the largest products in Baidu's history, although it was a little longer than expected, it was three or four times more functional than the product required in the current KPI.

Others complained that minghai was the one who squeezed the most. At noon every day, he seemed to be Office I didn't see how he had a meal. Everyone called his office love a "Black House". If I found Xiao Peng or Xiao Hong lost at lunch, it must have been held by minghai to discuss the issue in the "Black House.

"Everyone is the first time to participate in Baidu Special Forces. Special Forces, in order to catch up with the opponent, must first work hard and bear a considerable amount of pressure, "said minghai, staring at everyone." Now let's look back, every engineer, it is no longer indestructible."
"Confidence is built up to overcome difficulties. In the past, two or three people made a product. As an engineer, one person can earn 20% of the honor. However, Im is too important. I think it is very useful for me to share the honor of 1/20 ." Xiao Yu's words represent the voices of every im engineer.