In development, why do you find someone who is paid more than you but doesn't write any code?

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Why is there such a person ​

A fan has worked for so long , Sometimes I am asked a question , That's it “ Why our company doesn't write any code, but its salary is mine 2 What about people who are twice as old ？ It's unfair! ”.

When ah fan heard this question , The first thing that comes to mind , The classification of Engineers , So 「Java The engineer 」 For example .

First of all, let me show you a classic distinction , The distinction on the recruitment website ：

「 Junior development engineer 」, So what and how to define primary development ？ General requirements will be written clearly on the recruitment website , be familiar with Spring boot,Spring Other framework ;, be familiar with dubbo frame 、redis etc. ; be familiar with Unix/Linux System , Proficient in database Oracle、MySQL Development, etc , Master SQL And the ability to write stored procedures ;

General 「 Junior development engineer 」 The requirements are not particularly high , Many of them require you to work in the company , Then we can write code for the company project , And business implementation .

that 「 Senior Development Engineer 」 Well ？

Now that I've brought the word advanced , That's for sure , There must be many differences in recruitment requirements 「 Junior development engineer 」 Required , for instance ：

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• Be responsible for the architecture design and R & D of risk control system , Ensure that the technical proposal can meet the requirements of the plan , High quality completion ;
• Ensure system stability , Solve various potential system technical risks , Continuously improve the performance and availability of risk control system / Scalability / Extensibility / Maintainability , Make sure the system is safe 、 High availability 、 High performance operation ;
• Help other team members solve technical problems 、 And related technology sharing ;
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A fan knows some friends who work in related large companies , Don't say what company it is , Lest the water meter be checked again , The advanced development of their company is quite awesome , There will be morning meetings every day , Don't discuss the company's business at the morning meeting , Just technology sharing , There are no restrictions on sharing content , I've seen what they shared before “ Wechat's algorithm for grabbing red envelopes ”, More interesting , If you are interested, you can baidu by yourself .

And these advanced development doesn't mean that we don't write any code at all , But many of them are responsible for reviewing your code , And this audit process can be imagined , In fact, it is much more difficult to write code than you .

There is also a class of top talents , That's it 「 Architects 」

You can see from the recruitment salary , Their salary level may be ours 2 Times or even 3 times , This corresponds to what they need to do, which is definitely the same as 「 Junior development engineer 」 also 「 Senior Development Engineer 」 It's different ：

Responsible for system framework construction and system design ; Deeply involved in business planning , Discuss and make constructive suggestions ;

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I can see from these recruitment contents , from “ Architects ” At the level of , Many are from a macro perspective , Control the company's projects , Design the company's system , The company's projects in disguise become more “ On the tall ” One o'clock .

Now that the distinction has been made , So why do so many friends think that instead of writing code, they get a higher salary than me ？

Why are they paid more than me ​

First of all, most people , I believe that programmers on the market now , Per cent 50 About people are trained from XX training institution , Per cent 40 People come out of school , It belongs to the scientific class , Another 10% belong to those who change careers by themselves , And among these people , Someone who can show up as an architect , Most of them came out of school , Not absolutely , I believe in people from training institutions and self-study , There are also those who become big men , But that is a minority .

I was having dinner with a friend who was engaged in big data , Listen to her , A master graduated from Tsinghua University came to their company , But at the time of entry , Explain it , I don't know much about what the company does , But the salary is also relatively high , And the company also left this person , After that, you can also think of , He really created a high profit for the company .

There are also some cases , For example, Wu Hanqing of Ali , In front of the interviewer , Directly hacked Alibaba's system , Therefore, it has been appreciated by Alibaba and successfully entered Alibaba , After that, Alibaba cloud's security issues are left to him , Such people are only a minority .

And most of those who don't write code are still in your company , Their technology , Sometimes you can't see , I wrote a before in the company SQL sentence , When actually used in the project , This SQL Because the data queried is relatively large , There are many tables involved , The reaction is slow , And in the hands of big guys , A change SQL strange , Query speed is too fast . They don't write code , Instead of writing code that you've written thousands of times .

The algorithm is better than ordinary people

In the eyes of architects , I don't know what the algorithm looks like , But in ah fan's eyes , Algorithms have always been high-end content , Being able to design a system with good algorithms is simply too important , And these people's algorithms , What is better than some ordinary people is not a little .