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Many industries have “connections,” so is there a privileged class opening doors for their offspring to enter embedded software development?

1. High Requirements for Technical Personnel

Those with low IQ cannot succeed; even if they want to coast through, it’s impossible.

There is a lot to learn: operating systems, algorithms, programming languages, hardware principles, chips, networking knowledge, databases…

These areas of knowledge have a characteristic: no matter how well you memorize them, without practical operation and being battered by several projects, it is really hard to master them.

The author has encountered many technical personnel, and sometimes just a few conversations can give a rough estimate of their level.

In the humanities, one can hire ghostwriters or plagiarize; even if one doesn’t understand, a short-term crash course can yield a general understanding.

Moreover, the evaluation of results mostly occurs within small circles,

where there is too much opacity, making operations easier.

In the field of technical development, the products (software, hardware) must face the market,

and the operation is either right or wrong, effective or ineffective.

The difficulty of faking is high, the threshold is too high, and the risks are also high,

unless all the reviewers are fools or can be manipulated.

Consider the polished Hanxin, the Mulan language (a wrapper around Python),

and those various operating systems that claim to be completely self-developed (desktop systems based on Linux).

Unless what you create can be hidden forever, so that others cannot know.

2. Technical Development Rarely Involves Complex Interpersonal Relationships or Privilege

The goals of the privileged and wealthy often have a characteristic,

which is either to ensure that the operated individuals have very high incomes,

or to grant them certain powers to monopolize and monetize, [for example, Li Tie].

Technical research and development positions are hard to have this attribute,

but we rarely hear of anyone who can monopolize, create factions, or establish cliques through their advanced technical skills, like the one who promoted Miss Dong.

Even geniuses like Dennis Ritchie, Linus, and von Neumann…

These geniuses among geniuses,

perhaps it is not that they cannot, but that they disdain to do so.

3. The Technical Industry is Highly Competitive, Making It Difficult to Establish Barriers

Compared to the medical industry, the technical research and development field is basically completely open,

as long as you have real technology, you can start a company and go for it,

aside from some tech giants, no one can truly monopolize an industry,

and this level of competition requires higher resources.

The operators not only need sufficient continuous funding,

but also need an understanding and insight into the industry that is different from the norm,

able to attract a large number of truly excellent technical research and development personnel.

Opportunities, technology, capital, and policy support are all indispensable.

For example: Lei Jun.

These industries ultimately are results-oriented,

in hospitals, making a wrong decision and purchasing a batch of unnecessary equipment

will not lead to the hospital’s closure or downgrade, and the leaders will not be immediately dismissed,

but in many tech companies, a failed decision can lead directly to bankruptcy.

A typical case: Smartisan phone.

Technology is the lifeline of tech companies,

and managers are not so foolish as to let someone who knows nothing about technology manage it.

Aside from technology, everything else can be arranged casually.

4. State-Owned Enterprise Research Institutes Require Double 211, Double 985

Many people do not understand why the educational requirements are so strict,

but once the educational requirements are lowered,

the result will be that many positions will be firmly occupied by those with connections or those who have studied abroad and returned,

do you expect this group of connected individuals to work?

Those who can get into 211 or 985 universities must have a high IQ,

and those who did not take the college entrance examination and went abroad to study are mostly from wealthy families,

with average grades (except for Ivy League schools).

Any seemingly unreasonable regulation must have its deeper reasons!

Moreover, most of the spies caught have studied abroad, and there are many poor students among those who studied abroad.

Although Miss Dong is often criticized,

her attitude towards the educational qualifications of returnees is still very correct,

she must have suffered countless losses,

to say such a thing.

5. Technical Development is Very Hard Work

In companies and units engaged in technical development, there are basically no that do not require overtime,

especially in recent years, where every field is extremely competitive,

research and development personnel in various units often work 996 hours a week,

the second and third generations generally find it hard to endure this hardship,

so for the privileged, the cost-effectiveness of technical development is very low,

working hard for a salary that is not as high as the returns from their investments.

However, for ordinary families,

the input-output ratio is very high,

buying a car, a house, and supporting a family is not a big problem.

6. Regarding Promotion

But do not be too optimistic,

technical personnel generally can only reach middle management at most,

to go further, one still needs to rely on connections.

In some high-level meetings, you will find that the technical management personnel qualified to enter the meeting room are only a small part,

you can ponder that.

Most of the managers in technical teams come from small-town backgrounds or are urban citizens,

most of them are grassroots,

these people have no power or influence, and in order to rise, they squeeze themselves and their teams hard,

996 is basic operation,

all-nighters and year-round work (no weekends or holidays) are the norm,

as for how the people below feel, they do not consider it at all,

what they want is to complete their KPIs within the stipulated time,

once the project is completed, the people below can leave as they wish,

and they will just replace them with another group to continue squeezing.

These dirty and tiring jobs, which are often criticized, are not something the second and third generations are willing to do.

The privileged generally operate their own people to do administrative management, marketing, procurement, finance, or even logistics,

but very few will operate their own people to become technical personnel.

However, some experts may symbolically be placed in the R&D department for 1 or 2 years for training,

and then transferred to the administrative department for rapid promotion,

or stay for 1 or 2 years, spend money to buy a few patents,

and then go through talent introduction to get into the system.

Go take a look at your institute, is it like this?!

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