Small game programmer 2 Year 10 Month work summary (third job, leave Tencent)

For a long time did not write summary, nor because nothing can be summed up, but because of the lack of a suitable time. Today is the time for my career to write a summary, because today I officially from Tencent, join Hortor, start a business.

"Be a pursuing programmer," says Leo. He believes that a good programmer should have, modesty, tolerance, openness, responsibility, self-esteem and not conceited, rational thinking, suspicion of all, persistent, practice summed up, know the reasons why the characteristics. These are not wrong, but, the only did not talk about, what is the pursuit of programmers, perhaps, Leo's article said the pursuit, is the pursuit of a good programmer it. Just when I was going to see this article, and the title of the article is very relevant to my thoughts at this time, so start it, I hope Leo do not mind.

What is the pursuit of a programmer? This seems to be very difficult to generalize, personally, after reading "Doom Revelation", I completely changed my life idea, my goal is like Carmack, with the world can not reach the technology, making the most cattle game! And I, from then on, came across a difficult choice, Is measured by this goal, and finally, it must be a direction closer to that goal.

Tencent, when I left, is still China's largest internet company, the market value of 50 billion U.S. dollars, in the game field, the previous few years have surpassed Shanda, is China's largest online gaming company. And QQ This is the Chinese Internet synonymous with the IM tool, in China almost no one does not know. Chinese New Year back home, and friends and family talked about the work of Tencent, they are all with envy, can let people have a kind of in well-known big enterprise work pride.

In Tencent, there is an unusually relaxed working atmosphere, much higher than the Gameloft salary, all over the main areas of Beijing shuttle bus, let people have a lot of reasons to work here. And the work that I do in my department is also a continuation of my previous work in Gameloft, related to the iphone game, which is really rare. The most interesting thing is, in a few days, (really in single-digit measure) Tencent will move to the third level of the new home, the new office environment can only be described as luxurious, spacious working environment, with a gym, dance room, massage room, even, there is a bath place.

In Tencent, the first time to participate in the quality of expansion activities, the jaws of danger, back to fall, the scene of the graduation wall vividly. Also clearly remember the joy of our team after winning the championship, the Department's annual meeting to get a big bonus accident, in the Wu people celebrated happy, and colleagues finally will be the remaining bonuses all through Tencent's public welfare platform to donate the generosity.

At Tencent's annual meeting, I saw the achievements and efforts of Tencent people, a proud of the data, the leading field and the gap between the second is almost insurmountable, and the backward areas, there will always be a doubling of growth, the annual meeting of the program's imagination, creativity is also amazing, drama performance near the professional, is also there, I first saw the wood and Karen Mok himself, and very much was the atmosphere of the infection, although tune not full, but also hard to sing "in the home." Finally, as always, bad luck, from the jackpot to the small award, one did not smoke, but the stadium of the night carnival, I still unforgettable.

To tell you the truth, I just graduated from the time, did not think, I can Tencent this level of the company to work, perhaps, Tencent, Baidu this level of companies, in my new graduation, for me is only a dream can not be expected.

Farewell

However, no matter how good Tencent, I finally chose to leave, which the bitterness and choice of difficult, it is difficult to necromancy, I finally recalled that the biggest reason may not be suitable for this time Tencent Beijing iphone team work and Atmosphere bar.

On the work, we are just similar to the development of some PC version of the QQ game already have some desktop games (this text is added in September 2011, six months to release the game, has been able to explain this fact, I think I did not disclose what internal information), as far as my personal technical pursuit, There is really no technical content to these developments, and this is more lethal to me than anything else that strikes me as a passion for work. However, this is not the most lethal, in the ipad version of the QQ bucket landlord, iphone1,2 version of the QQ bucket landlord update, I saw the leader to my six-year work plan, a full six months of the landlord to update the plan! My goodness, I couldn't stand it at the time, just talk to him about it, He said it was a test of my patience and the ability to do dull things, I specifically said that I was a typical impatient person, the result leader, said that the six-year plan for the discussion, the actual is so one-sided set, this is the last I will leave Tencent the biggest reason, Because the content of the work in Tencent is too boring and boring, I have not done so boring things in my life, when I expected to have to do half a year, it is no patience to follow down. Because leader also did not express clearly, six months later, you can do. Overall, I feel that Tencent is not a pure game company after all, game development feeling more general (perhaps because I am not in the mutual entertainment), the overall work arrangement, the personnel collocation is not according to the traditional game company's pattern to carry on, more resembles is a traditional software company, while goes, There is a leader has the ability for my internal transfer work, talked about a few choices, finally even he can only helpless to talk about in fact these choices are really not good ...

Obviously, for my personal technical pursuit, Tencent is unable to meet, on this point, I left the determination is very firm.

On the atmosphere, I must say the great atmosphere of the company is very good, I am talking about the small atmosphere of the iphone team, it is a bit depressing and unpleasant, more than half of the team are northeast people, many are leader former colleagues, or leader leader former colleagues, everyone that Karma is a gang, Too difficult to fit in, almost every meal is northeast food, that fatty food to eat, I went to Tencent full fat 20 kg ~ ~ ~ I was in Tencent to know what is called office politics, gangs and political struggle, this said there are too many of the things, I am not here to gossip, But as a simple programmer who wants to do technology, I'm not comfortable with it. And whether it is leader or leader's leader, I do not want to accuse them, but it is obvious that they do not have appropriate control of this situation, but let it develop. How bad is the atmosphere? Let me give you some circumstantial evidence, less than 10 small teams. People, before I entered 1, 2 months to walk 2 people, and I go at the same time, another is also from the Gameloft to come over colleagues have gone, I do not go 2 months, another colleague to go, the turnover of people frequently, for Tencent, It's really rare enough. may also be because the turnover is too frequent, when I go, from leader talked about the leader of leader, and then to leader leader leader .... Until the Beijing Research and Development department Manager assistant, Research and Development department manager, altogether 5, 6 rounds, that is really talk of exhaustion Ah ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ HR heard about my situation, on the qtx of the situation on the past, all the provinces to talk about the steps.

I used to leave the company, I have to leave for personal reasons, to the company and leader are extremely grateful, read my previous work summary can know that I did not lie, but from the Tencent left, but it is just the opposite, this article is very easy to become a grouch and urine, for the working experience in Tencent, I'll just go for it. But on the whole, I still thank my work in the Tencent leader and leader leader, you gave me this into Tencent, and witnessed the opportunities of Tencent, even if the final turnover process dragged very long, so that I have some aversion, But when you told me that you gave me a high level of technical scores, and with HR strive to eliminate the HR barrier let me into the Tencent, I was very moved.

To sum up, the work is not challenged, the atmosphere is not like, then I leave the motivation is very big ...

In general, Tencent learned the technical aspects of things really not much, if said there is harvest, the biggest is in management, to Tencent, I often take Tencent and Gameloft to compare, let me see what is bad management, what is good management, The difference between the management level of people can really be very big, in addition, Tencent often said that the engineer culture, requiring programmers to have the idea of user experience, let me see some of the UI design, user experience design books, at the same time in the work of the application, harvest also a lot.

New Job

After leaving Tencent, the problem came, China after all, only a Tencent ah, where to find such a good working conditions and salary ah? When I go, leader said that I can recommend to Baidu, but I have no interest ... I still want to go to a real game company, and in the end there are a few options, And the wages are higher than Tencent a lot of, because of all the reasons I did not go, may feel that after the Tencent, but also to other companies continue to work, feel almost will not have much change it, so finally very tendentious choice of hortor, this small start-up company. This process is a long story, will enter the Hortor, is because Jinchaos just returned home when I saw the article when I left Gameloft wrote, at that time about in Zhongguancun met, but did not have the courage to promise to venture. And after leaving Tencent, I instead have this courage, originally thought entrepreneurship is a future just go back to consider things, because they are not ready, but from Tencent out, will be a little confused, so, as well as out of the break.

Entrepreneurship is not so much a pursuit, it may be a word to say, that is a dream. And how many people have ever had a dream before? How many people in the reality of the cruelty slowly lost the courage to realize the dream. Maybe a lot of people like me, just started to work when thinking, today's work is just for the future to do the accumulation and preparation, but as the work is getting better and higher wages, more and more comfortable life, whether there is any more courage to start from scratch? As the ages grow older and the pressures of life and family become greater, Do you still have the courage to give up a steady job and take risks? As the old boy sings, "Dreams are always out of reach, are you supposed to give up?", "Did the wish come true now?" Who can give me the answer, where should be ordinary? This film can make countless people moved, perhaps because it is true to describe in China this magical land, the reality is how cruel, the realization of the dream is how difficult it. The American dream is the driving force that inspires a generation of Americans to work hard, and what kind of dream does the Chinese have now?

Working life, after Everest trend, Gameloft Beijing, Tencent three companies, no matter in which company, I feel that the work is not all I want, so the basic time is divided into two stages of work and work, work to complete the work, work after their own study, even in the first company, Every day I go to work at the same time after 9 o'clock in the evening, (when I learned 2 in the evening, 3 points) because I feel that there are too many restrictions on my job, too much time for meaningless things, and too many times to make money for my own time, and it's too rare to do something that I really want to do. I never thought I could go on like this. What should the programmer's pursuit be? I think different programmers should have different ideas, but at least it should not be the status quo, really feel that the job is to make money. And my career, word, use time to change money. So, if I was working alone, I would never be satisfied.

I hope my job is to do a great thing, such as doing the world's most cattle game, do not think I said too exaggerated, in fact, I am not the only one to think so. I want to say one thing here, it is said that Blizzard does not make any development plans for its employees, but the staff is very passionate about it, and a famous Chinese internet company (I want you to know which company I mean) has a very good staff development plan for each employee, but a lot of passionate employees are leaving, Any employee development plan is nonsense, if it doesn't make sense. Programming is a creative job, and I think every programmer wants his work to be creative and meaningful, but China's environment is not so ideal, so the programmer's mobility is so large, it can be understood.

Join Hortor before, and Jinchaos chat, I said my dream is to develop the world's most cattle game, he said his dream is to change the world, I doubt, you are not also the development of the game? In fact, he said, our dreams are all about the same, but I'm changing the world through the world's most awesome game. So I have no words, to the admiration.

Maybe changing the world is a word that jobs should talk about, but why can't even dream of it?

I choose to develop games on the mobile platform to change the world. Failed, I sway is the sweat of youth, gain is the experience of entrepreneurship, for the next successful preparation, and success, I harvested is a better world! Since the realization of financial freedom, you can do whatever you want to learn the technology, development of their own want to develop the game! In this sense, I'm not really going to fail anyway.

And for what? I was impressed by an advertisement I saw.

And an entrepreneur's words, especially in line with my feelings at this time: "The greatest happiness is not how much money to make, but the dream of a one to put into reality." ”

This article only to commemorate the end of my Tencent work, commemorating the beginning of my entrepreneurial career.

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