In fact, what I want to record the most is still the year 2022. In that year, I sorted out many messy things, such as various organizational relationships and career development. Unfortunately, due to various reasons, I couldn't document it, perhaps mainly because I don't want to expose everything about myself.
The theme for 2024 is the autumn recruitment. Yes, the time for graduation is approaching again, and this may be the last stage of my studies.
I have always been pessimistic, feeling that living to 50 years old is a long life. Now that I am already 25, it seems that these 25 years have all been for a good future development.
In these 25 years, I have spent almost all my time in school, reading books for half my life. What is it all for...?
I find that my thinking has become dull; I have difficulty expressing many thoughts in words, perhaps due to not reading for a long time. After realizing this, I tried to read some books, such as "The Wealth of Nations," but I found that I forgot what I read afterward. Many contents require careful thought to grasp their meanings, which made me feel drowsy while reading this book. I also tried reading "Being Involved," but I still couldn't get into it. I think this might be due to my major; the field I am good at is not here, making reading quite laborious, leaving me feeling dispirited.
However, to put it another way, in 2024, I have forgotten much of what I did at the beginning of the year. Around March, I began to determine my future technical direction and started to immerse myself in it. I hurriedly learned some technologies and worked on a project as practice, then did two more projects to validate what I had learned. From that period of study, some phrases came to mind, such as "what is learned on paper is ultimately shallow," "unity of knowledge and action," and "practice is the only criterion for testing truth"....
Then I began to participate in the early batch of autumn recruitment. During that time, I felt very frustrated; after submitting my resume, there was no response. I asked some friends, and they said the projects lacked business support.
What exactly is business support??? Gradually, I began to understand. A project is not just something you can call a project because you did it; of course, if you recognize it yourself, I can't help that. Without actual usage scenarios, it can only be considered a demo, something you did for fun.
Later, I modified my resume while submitting it. After submitting, I could receive assessments; at first, I took the assessments seriously, but later I learned there was a question bank...
After that, I kept doing written tests, and finally, Deepin invited me for an in-person interview. That was probably after the Mid-Autumn Festival, close to National Day. I still remember my first interview during the autumn recruitment; the interviewer asked me to talk about one of my projects. I foolishly talked about a deep learning project related to knowledge graphs. He kept asking about deep learning, and I thought I explained it quite clearly, but he still didn't understand. In the end, he gave me a coding problem to solve. It wasn't until I had more interviews that I realized how poorly I performed that day. My impression of Deepin is EasyConnect; it seems that many universities in China use this software. To be honest, I feel quite regretful. If I could do it again, I would be very confident about getting to the second interview.
After National Day, Digital Horse sent interview invitations to my peers. At first, I had heard of this company; I only knew it was a subsidiary of Ant Financial. At that time, I thought Digital Horse's bases were only in Changsha and Zhengzhou, both cities I dislike, so I didn't submit my resume. By the time I regretted it, the resumes had already been filled. Looking back, it really is as Zhang Sir said, just graduated, the most important thing is the platform. Platform > Technology > Salary. During that time, I seemed to focus only on the work location and salary, completely forgetting the importance of the platform. Why? I don't have an accurate answer in my heart; perhaps it's because the title of my school isn't prominent enough, thinking that the school's title could at most get me into a mid-sized company. Do I regret it? Very much.
Later, I went for an interview at Qunar, thinking it was a KPI interview, so I didn't prepare seriously, and thus I failed. I regretted it a lot.
After that, the school organized many offline recruitment events, and I finally received an offer from one of them. Although I wasn't very satisfied, at least I had a safety net. Then a company in Hangzhou invited me for an in-person interview, which I declined.
As I write this, I realize that I submitted too few resumes too slowly during the autumn recruitment. I thought my resume was poor, so I would definitely fail, and besides that, I was also delayed by some personal matters. Perhaps I have been frustrated for a long time; ultimately, my inner strength wasn't strong enough. There might also be some timing issues; the Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day in 2024 are close together, causing many companies to be in a hurry to hire.
After I received an offer, I interviewed with China Mobile in Huangshan, feeling that I wasn't well-prepared. I couldn't answer many basic professional questions at that time, but I don't regret it too much. The regret might be that I bought a suit for it, spending quite a bit of money. However, I learned how to tie a tie, how to choose a suit that suits me, what kind of suit looks good, what it means for clothes to wear a person and what it means for a person to wear clothes. The biggest gain from the China Mobile interview might be gaining some understanding of suits.
Later, the School of Information Engineering also organized some job fairs, and I successfully secured two offers at these fairs. But I still felt dissatisfied, especially after hearing Zhang Sir's advice; I also agree that the platform is very important.
Finally, I began to work on my thesis. The first batch of submissions is on January 3, so I made a seven-day sprint plan for my thesis and successfully completed it.
By this point, 2025 is basically coming to an end.
As a postscript, the pre-review results of my thesis were one A and one B, and the comments from the experts moved me greatly. "Indicates that the author has mastered the knowledge in this field and has a certain ability to engage in independent scientific research." "Indicates that the author has a solid theoretical foundation, professional knowledge, and certain research capabilities."
In the past three years, no one has ever affirmed my research like this. They only belittled me in group meetings, saying I was too slow. But they didn't expect that I would just stop doing it later...
"Life flows like water, counting it as a dream of fleeting life."
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