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Recently there is a hot debate in China about companies implementing 996 policies. Even Alibaba founder Jack Ma involves in this controversy discussion. Basically 996 means working from 9am to 9pm a day and 6 days a week. This policy is largely considered as depriving the personal time of employees. Many people think this violates the law and companies should stop doing this while others think that people can choose to leave if they don't agree the company policy. 996 is common now in China, esp...

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As an IT professional, it's recommended to write blogs so that the knowledge you learned can be recorded and shared with other people may have similar demand. But unfortunately, lots of people are not writing blogs. What are your reasons? ...

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On 12 September, China's eCommerce giant Alibaba fired a few employees for ordering mooncakes intended for internal employees by "cheating". The background of this incident is that Alibaba developed a mooncake ordering system open to internal employee just before the Chinese Mid-Autumn festival(15 September). Knowing about this news, 4 Alibaba security engineers and 1 Aliyun(Alibaba Cloud) engineer wrote some script to help order the mooncake automatically. When the system was open, the script s...

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A CTO is usually considered as a person with strong technology sense and knows how to build the best technology strategy of the company and conquer technical challenges facing the company. And a CTO is frequently conceived as a person who can write code well. There are a few arguments about what a CTO needs to do exactly. What do you think a qualified CTO needs to do? Does s/he need to write code? Does s/he need to be a tech guru? ...

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As an IT professional, we will spend much time at our work cubicle because we need to sit in front of our workstation. What is your cubicle looking like? Show the world what your work environment is? How fancy is it? How geeky is it?...

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Recently a story happens around me where a manager with sales background has failed to lead two tech teams within 4 years. He has emphasized more on something which may please the upper management team but anger the team members. The team members are pushed to do something which are not related to their daily work. So their performance is not so good and the two teams were dismissed and moved out of the products they were on. This leads to the questions : What will happen if a sales backgrounded...

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Many people are working as IT professional in investment banks like JP Morgan and Morgan Stanley. For example, C inventor Bjarne Stroustrup is now working in Morgan Stanley. What are the reasons people choose to work in investment bank as IT professional? What do you like or dislike to work in investment banks?...

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Up to date there is No single street name for a top programmer or computer scientist in any of the Top 20 most developed countries in the world during the last 60 years.There is no statue built in the center of a major city for a renown programmer or computer scientists.No “Presidential Medal” or “Congressional Gold Medal” has been awarded to a computer scientists or programmer.There is no nationally televised social reward ceremony for computer programmers and scientists...

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