Last empire-dilemmas of agile
(1) This article is excerpted from agile and invincible
"Left or right ?" The guy who touched his waist with his right hand on the rock wall figured out, "there are only the last two rock wedge s and a fast link. It is 30 meters away to reach the top. Which side should I choose? Although the rock wall on the left looks steep, there may be more points. The rock wall on the right seems to have a moderate slope, ......"
"Ling ......", A burst of cell phone ringtones interrupt Ajie's thinking.
A Jie rubbed his right hand covered with magnesium powder on his leg and carefully removed his cell phone from his waist bag.
"You can't drop it any more. The last time I went back, I was harassed by a spam phone during rock climbing and broke my favorite blackberry phone ." A Jie was thinking about pressing the answer key and said, "Hello," a pleasant girl's voice has already sounded in her ear: "Is it Mr. Xu Jie ?"
"Well, hello. Who ?"
"Hello, here is the China R & D center of agile Ltd. We are pleased to inform you that you have passed our first round of written examination, can you come to us for the second round of interview on the morning of March 13, June 8? ...... Okay. We will see you on Wednesday, June 8 ."
Ten minutes later, A Jie excitedly stood at the top of the rock wall of the moon-shining mountains in Yangshuo, Guangxi, and looked at the QINGSHAN Xiushui in the distant sunset. He thought, "Is this true? Haha, agile finally called me !"
As the world's top telecommunications company, agile Corp. (NASDAQ: agil) has subsidiaries in more than 80 countries around the world. Since its establishment in Agile China in 1996, agile Corp. the Chinese R & D center has been named as the best employer of foreign companies by the Chinese media for many times. It is the dream of many software developers to become agile employees. One month ago, after the former Alibaba Cloud took the agile test, their mobile phones were charged every day and even they were taken with them in the bathroom. As the days passed, A Jie was disheartened. After all, agile is such a big company. There are dozens of people who interview and test each day. I did not expect to just relax in Yangshuo, but I received a second round of interview call from agile.
In the next few days, C ++, Java, Perl, CORBA, database, CMM/cmme, and oral English have become the whole of Alibaba Cloud's life. Alibaba Cloud not only reorganized all projects and knowledge points that have been done and accessed by Chinese companies over the years, but also practiced oral English in a silly way in the mirror.
The day for the second round of interviews soon arrived. In March June 8, A Jie, wearing a white-washed jeans and carrying a heavy old IBM ThinkPad T40 notebook, came to the agile Beijing R & D center.
When I got out of the elevator and reported the font size, A Jie was introduced into a conference room with projection by the girl at the front desk. When I passed the office, he felt that agile's office environment was really good. Everyone is a laptop, and the work station is very loose. There are at least two green plants on each station. There is a small bookshelf on the table, and a small whiteboard on the wall. You can put the work you want to do on it. This Whiteboard is very attractive to Alibaba Cloud. I want to record important things to be done every day, or write a famous saying, which is probably cool. There is also a coffee shop in the middle, where refrigerator, microwave oven, water dispenser, coffee maker, and various beverage bottles are neatly arranged, including coffee bottles and sugar cubes. There were three people standing there, drinking and chatting. A Jie holds the cup containing hot water which the little girl sent in her hand and thinks: "foreign companies are really different from domestic companies ." He was also intoxicated with memories of the former company, and was interrupted by a gentle push.
"Sorry, I am late !" An old 40-year-old man came in with a greeting and was busy connecting his ultra-thin HP notebook with a projector without looking at agje. He has a couple of meters, deep eyes, blue eyes, high nose beam, light yellow hair.
This is the first time that Alibaba Cloud has spoken with foreigners and is still an interview! When I was nervous, I forgot all the comments I had previously thought about. I just said, "Hello, I am Xu Jie ."
"Oh ?" When I heard the other party's voice, the foreigner looked up and stunned. "Oh, my God. I must be in the wrong room! My name's Rob, nice to meet you !" A foreigner stretched out his hand and shook hands with Ajie.
Just as quickly as he met Rob, Rob grabbed his notebook and immediately picked up his notebook, saying, "Sorry. I need to find the right meeting room! It is really late now !" Rob pulled the really for a long time and repeat it again. He smiled and squashed his eyes and quickly opened the door.
A Jie turned out to be in the wrong meeting room. I didn't come to interview myself. It was a real surprise!
A Jie just stabilized his mood, and Hu la suddenly came in four or five people. A Jie has never seen this trend before, and he started to jump straight again. He used to have two interviews at most. What is the situation today?
"Hi, Xu Jie. I am Yuan Lang and I am the hiring manager in charge of this recruitment ." A man who looks a little bigger than Agee is talking about himself while shaking hands with Agee. After a chill, the interview hosted by Yuan Lang entered the topic.
According to the prior notice process, Alibaba Cloud will give an English speech to introduce a project that has been recently done in the form of a PPT, focusing on the content of his work. As soon as he involved his own project, he quickly threw his nervousness out of the cloud. After all, he was too familiar with it. A Jie introduced the project related to TD-SCDMA, and this is exactly what Yuan Lang's team is doing. As a result, there are many common languages and many questions are raised. As a result, Alibaba Cloud keeps stopping and answering some very specific questions during the speech.
A fat people wait for a Jie lecture after the PPT, a little deliberately difficult to ask: "next to a whiteboard, you give me a picture of the network topology of the TD-SCDMA !"
"No problem !" It is estimated that this problem is busy for a while, but it is too pediatric for agec. A Jie picked up the pen side to talk about the side, three times five in addition to two painted out, but also marked the specific name of the interface between each network element, which ASN.1 encoding, but also the road to the TD-SCDMA network evolution to LTE, how to integrate with the GPRS/GSM network, and draw a picture together. The man who can ask the question is straight in a daze.
This move by Alibaba Cloud immediately played a role. Since then, not only have no questions about the TD-SCDMA, but communication-related questions are rarely mentioned. Since then, Yuan Lang and others have asked some common interview questions, such as: Why did he leave, how much he knows about agile, salary expectations, and future development plans, and how long can I get to work at the company if I have provided an offer? These are some very open questions, and they don't matter whether they are right or wrong. Ah Jie is very frank and honest.
Two hours later, A Jie was excited to return the small piece of paper with a "visitor" to the front-end girl. She was still thinking about whether there were any omissions in the J2EE architecture discussed with the architect just now. To be honest, except that the PM Called Yuan Lang remembered the name for Ah Jie, the other people did not remember their names. After all, they were almost 30 years old, your mind can no longer be forgotten as before.
When I walked out, the breeze in the early summer of Beijing blew away, And A Jie suddenly felt a great sensation. I looked back and played agile Corp. A Jie smiled at the logo of China R & D centre, "agile, I'm coming "!
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