When recruiting, the interviewer talked to him about massive recall and sorting models, as well as experimenting with advanced models in various papers, but in actual work, he just wrote rudimentary "if else" code every day.
"Our department is responsible for the recommendation information flow. The task is to continuously optimize the recommendation information Buy email list and increase the average browsing time. But what I have to do is to 'stack' the business code without changing the model itself. The work is not challenging." Cao Pi described himself as a skilled Internet workers complete repetitive and mechanical work every day, and there is no room for technological growth at all.
With redundant personnel, "involution" is inevitable, and overtime has become one of the important indicators to measure work effort. Three or four years ago, when the company went up, it was possible to get off work at 8 o'clock or even earlier. But now Baidu is "15th", work at ten o'clock in the morning and leave work at ten o'clock in the evening, and often need to work overtime for free on weekends.
In addition, the adjustment of the company's strategic direction is also one of the important reasons for Cao Pi's departure.
He told Yusier that the company wants to transform in the direction of more tob artificial intelligence. However, at present, the artificial intelligence business has been unable to make a profit, so it is still "swinging" back and forth between the two business lines.
"I will definitely feel uncomfortable. I used to think that search and recommendation was the core department. But now you tell me that it may be a marginal department in the future, and of course I will be dissatisfied. I can go to the core department of other companies, why should I be a marginal department here? "Cao Pi spit out.
Compared with the core departments, the marginal departments will have 1-2 months less year-end bonuses, and are often the "hardest hit areas" for layoffs. The MEG (Mobile Ecological Business Group) where Cao Pi worked before has a high turnover rate, about one a week.
Although the number of Internet offers has decreased, Cao Pi said frankly that in general, the skills of programmers who can enter Baidu are still passable, and it is easier to go out for an interview and get an offer.