Since the front-end has already been rolled in, why is the company still unable to recruit people?
Tags: career
Published: 2021-08-25 04:54:31

From 15 years ago, artists and cut figures with a monthly salary of 5k, to today's front-end experts, architects, front-end managers, and business leaders with an annual income of over one million, the front-end has been rolling out.

Let's make the conclusion first: the front end enters the deep water zone and is rolling out. The harder the rolling, the harder it is to recruit people.

The greater the gap between the capability model of large factories and small and medium-sized factories, the hundreds of thousands of front-ends that have grown from small and medium-sized factories, the more difficult it is to enter large factories. It is better to recruit a P5+ who has been working for 3 years than to recruit a fresh graduate. The high potential of the company eventually led to the fact that Dachang has never recruited suitable people, and there are a large number of intermediate front-ends on the market, and they have not been able to enter the big factory, so they mistakenly believe that the front-end is very inward. The development of front-row groups in the industry has led to deteriorating competitiveness.

If the evolution of technology and industry changes are regarded as a history book full of changes, and the front-end industry is included, there are several common historical viewpoints:

The front end is an inconspicuous small technical branch. It doesn’t matter much to me. I just want to concentrate on writing code to make money, and I’m not too interested in it.

The front-end threshold is getting higher and higher, and it’s becoming more and more unfriendly to newcomers, and the ceiling is also particularly low.

In the past ten or so seniors, they have explored and raised the ceiling of the industry. I am very fortunate to enter the industry at this time. There are a lot of community resources and opportunities....

Individual struggles and the overall environmental development stage of the industry are inseparable. Talking about the other without any one is divorced from reality :

For example, in my elder generation, I will hear older people complain that hate did not move their family to Beijing and Shanghai in the 1970s to enjoy various household registration dividends and demolition benefits. There are also some younger elders who complain that hate is not there. When Deng was drawing circles in the South, his family went to Shenzhen to start a business. There were also some complaints from his older brothers. They hated that he did not learn economic knowledge and trade stocks to realize the freedom of wealth when the stock market and the Internet started in 2000. Some high school children's shoes of my age hate not having a good study and college entrance examination, which leads to no chance to enter a better platform and struggle. I also heard complaints from front-end elderly people who are slightly younger than me, and hate that they were not born 30 years earlier and catch up. Since the reform and opening up, I was not born 20 years earlier and caught up with the first pot of gold on the Internet. I hate myself for not doing a good job of technology in the early years and missing the rapid development dividends of China’s mobile Internet. Today, even if it is a P7, I have already earned one million a year. I have also heard some younger front-end newcomers complain that they hate that they were not born 10 years earlier, so that they can enjoy the dividends of the front-end slash-and-burn cultivation 10 years ago. Just build a wheel and join a big factory to be promoted to an expert. I already have a P8 today. 

NS...To this day, some of these opinions can still be heard among people of the same age, and the hidden voices behind them are like the dividends of a certain era node, and others can get it without any effort. It seems that as long as you choose the right one, everything will go smoothly. In a chapter, I don’t know that behind the choice is continuous effort. Although luck plays a very important role in this process, the decisive factor is your level of effort and the improvement of your ability and cognition brought about by your effort, which in turn leads to Here comes more forward-looking choices and the ability to make judgments. This is a positive and progressive relationship. A better choice leads to better results of efforts, and stronger efforts lead to better choices the next time . This is especially true for ordinary people who don't have much ambition.

Behind the choices and efforts are 80 years since the end of World War II, 30 years since the end of the Cold War, 30 years of China’s reform and opening up, 20 years of China’s PC Internet development, and 10 years of rapid development of mobile Internet and industrial Internet, the entire complex global economy has become refined. In all walks of life brought about by the division of labor, each person’s own life opportunity has changed everyone into today’s front-end. The group of the oldest front-end practitioners, their front-end development experience, is nothing more than a dozen years. Talking about dividends, this is just getting started, so how come "Since there is no future, it is better to be lazy as a teenager"?

Therefore, what we are talking about above is about an engineer’s basic judgment and self-positioning of an industry. The more emotional and labelled this judgment and positioning, the more difficult it is to sort out his career plan and see all the difficult things in the world. The first reaction is to use the word "juan" to escape things, as if as long as the situation in front of you is defined as a "juan", if you can't get a good result, it is controlled by the "juan" instead of being determined by yourself. On the contrary, if this judgment and positioning become more objective and rational, and the more able to handle a few kilograms of one's own weight, the more able to settle down and endure loneliness .

Try not to be labeled with rhythm, especially not to be strayed by labels with pessimistic negative energy. It is an ability and a kind of deep thinking that newcomers need to train. This kind of thinking must be deliberate as they grow older. Only in this way can we still have the underlying motivation to continuously update our existing knowledge system, the so-called incremental value learning rather than the consumption of the stock knowledge structure, in the middle age when the three views are stable .

There is a huge difference in cognition and values ​​between people. What we need to do is to understand the fact that this difference exists. It is not based on my will, and just continue to concentrate on what we are doing, continue coding Continue to preach, continue to write, continue to build a sharing platform, continue to do community exploration and product thinking.

So what I’m talking about here is actually talking about the engineer’s self-worth identity, whether you are driven by responsibility or curiosity, when you are a front-end, you only need to identify with your current engineer status and your current job attributes and responsibilities. , And when the matter of writing code and technology is pushed to the extreme, whether it is to do a line of love, or love to do a line, the ability to "do this line well" will become your core competitiveness. In the impression of the label, you are just a material and sample, but in your personal world, giving and gaining are all you have .

However, if responsibility or curiosity is scarce, it is difficult to recognize the value of oneself as an engineer, and it is also difficult to recognize the value of peers, which is what we call "maybe in the wrong line", you can use one or two Years ago, I actively made reserves and changed jobs to do what I was better at, because the threshold for front-end engineers is indeed rising. Otherwise, how is he different from the "artist" of earlier years, and how can he be called an "engineer" Well, because the engineering field itself has a certain degree of academic research, it is a cross-field comprehensive ability practice, and its requirements themselves are high.

So more than ten years ago, the degree of "artist", "refactoring engineer" and "page UI engineer" was generally not a bachelor's degree, but nowadays, 985 and 211 are flooding in, because the process of this industry moving into the deep water area requires academic , Research-oriented engineering talents, such a talent pool is far from enough, but the income ceiling of the front-end industry has long exceeded one million. A front-end who has worked for 7 years has a capacity of 2-2 bytes, and there is a high probability The annual income can exceed one million. If Byte is listed in the future, the options in hand will be spread every year, and the annual income will even exceed 2 million. Such a high income ceiling has long raised the front-end industry ceiling. So when I complain about the ceiling of children’s shoes, I can ask myself this question: Do I first worry about whether I can break through my ceiling and achieve an annual income of 2 million in 10 years, or is it because I have been worried about another "possible" existence after 2 million. A higher ceiling, so today I lost my fighting spirit and passion, so I no longer try to break through my ceiling?

The above content is written very specific in order to take care of newcomers. So much verbosity is just to let everyone know that the front-end industry has been developing rapidly in the past ten years. From a few thousand people to hundreds of thousands today, the development in just ten years has not only not reached the time of internal roll-out, but also in the period of crazy roll-out expansion, which has rolled out more employment opportunities and rolled out higher industries. Ceiling. Regarding this point, once I watched the live broadcast of Ant’s school recruitment, I also heard that Yu Bo expressed similar views, which are very similar to my ideas. I can’t remember the original words. I will talk about my own understanding, that is the front end. It is indeed rolling, but it has been rolling out. If there is no such a roll, we are still the company's art/page boy today. The income is lower and the ceiling is lower. This roll can be viewed like this:

Roll up, roll up to data processing, business decision-making, visualization and analysis, roll up to PRD, straight out of the page without code...
Scroll down to the R&D tools and interface generation process, engineering, intelligence, and large-scale concurrent service orchestration capabilities...
Scroll to the left, scroll to cloud componentization, design asset management, design productivity breakthrough, design low-code construction...
Scroll to the right, scroll to testing, security, usability, stability and R&D platform and operation and maintenance methods throughout the R&D life cycle...

The front-end has such a volume, but due to the characteristics of the front-end community information dissemination (the popular science and collection-oriented articles are more popular), and the lack of corresponding sharing platforms and mechanisms, a large number of excellent front-end teams have explored results. It’s well known that people mistakenly think that the depth and breadth of front-end technology is nothing more than this. That’s why I set up the semi-commercial and semi-community co-construction organization that the front-end talked about early to show the truth. The topics involved are front-end management, Front-end infrastructure, visualized site construction, low-code and intelligent construction, front-end monitoring, front-end construction, componentization and cloud assets, online documents, data visualization, data reporting and analysis, cross-end and cross-stack, micro front-end, front-end framework, CI/ There have been more than 140 sharing sessions on CD Pan-R&D platforms and other topics, as shown in the figure: 

Although many fields have not yet been rolled out, it is precisely the technical people in this industry who are frantically expanding the entire front-end territory... The territory is expanding, we can choose to join, we can choose to watch... It is our own choice. Everyone’s career path is flowed out by himself. There are not only the general trend of the global political and economic structure, but also the general direction and basic rhythm of the current industry. In this process, it depends on whether you have the courage and execution ability. I dare not take one step at a time to rewrite my own trajectory .

You should always look up, look up, look down, look forward, look back, look out, and look in. These are all new worlds brought about by changes in cognitive methods, such as the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, RECP, The China-EU Investment and Trade Agreement, as well as the possible future CPTPP, China-Japan-Korea Free Trade Area...Don’t be afraid to miss the previous dividends. Today and today, the dividends are still everywhere, or the size of the dividend has nothing to do with you, whether to let yourself The ability to grab dividends is related to you. The height of the front ceiling has nothing to do with you . Whether you can break through your own ceiling is related to you .

Finally, how many opportunities have nothing to do with you, whether to break your past perception of opportunities, re-understand and grasp it is related to you, so for the front end, it has nothing to do with you, and only you are closely related to you. The process of breaking the circle personally, this process is of little importance to others, but it is almost all to you .

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