It turned out that Zhang Ying and Suba were both editors

The afternoon of the first day of class of "Centennial Ali".

In response to Savio's question, "What is your position?" "Watching my classmates proudly report engineers, customer service, etc., when it was my turn, I said with low self-esteem: "I am the editor..."

Savio visibly saw my lowness and said in a loud voice, "Edit! Did you know that Zhang Ying and Suba (Peng Yijie) are all editors! Editing is a promising position, and you don't need to say 'I'm an editor' in that tone. ”

In July 2003, at the age of 20, after graduating from college, my parents helped me find a job in the civil service.

In April 2004, a friend who worked in the municipal government saw an Alibaba recruitment network advertisement and casually reposted it to me, who was "in the water" by the personnel in the public institution...

I was supposed to interview customer service, and when I was "on the side", they saw my resume of my experience running a newspaper in college and asked me if I would like to be an editor. At that time, I thought that the so-called editor was to consult the editor, look for news everywhere, post a post, find some topics, initiate discussions and so on, so I gladly agreed.

After working at Alibaba for a while, I realized that I was hired so quickly, not because I did well in interviews, but because there was a shortage of editors at that time.

On the first day of work on May 8, 2004, the whole department worked overtime until more than 23:00, which really surprised me, who had been eight to five. Then, almost every day after 20 o'clock. The work done is simple and tedious, and it seems that no creativity is needed, but there are always people behind them who constantly push themselves, challenge the limit, and then challenge the limit, efficiency! efficiency! A little more efficient! There was a period of diarrhea, a few more times to go to the toilet, efficiency and carrying capacity were far away from colleagues. In July e-sports, the company has no electricity, then braving the scorching sun at noon, go to the home of a colleague who has no power outage nearby, wait for the call and then rush back to the company to work overtime... After a month or two of doing this, I sadly said to myself: This may be the lowest added value, the least contributed, and the lowest position in the whole of Alibaba.

After working for a while, I went to participate in the training of "Centennial Ali". On the afternoon of the first day, Savio was confronted with a question: "What is your position?" "Watching my classmates proudly report engineers, customer service, etc., when it was my turn, I said with low self-esteem: "I am the editor..."

Savio visibly saw my lowness and said in a loud voice, "Edit! Did you know that Zhang Ying and Suba are both editors! Editing is a promising position, and you don't need to say 'I'm an editor' in that tone. ”

In fact, at that time, I didn't believe too much in the words of this kind old man. I think that the chief human resources officer always needs to comfort the young hearts of the low-level employees on the spot. In the early days of the company's establishment, of course, everything may have been done, you said that Ma Zong had been an administrator, I also believed it, but I was already the number of the 2000th worker, and when I had more than 2,000 people in front of me, it was my turn, and there was no chance. At that time, my mind was completely the idea of public institutions on seniority.

In the first two years of being an editor, I had countless thoughts of leaving, so I can especially understand Ma Zong's saying that three years is the Ali person. Until the winter of 2005, when the weekly report with a few small suggestions was suddenly publicly praised by Jiang Yanxiang, I suddenly knew that in the lowest-level positions, there can also be contributions.

Until I put forward some improvement suggestions for BOPS (background editing library), it turned out to be a reality, improving the efficiency and quality of everyone's review;

Until some of the features summarized by my offer, after being confirmed by all parties, it became the standard for judging the information of the scammer's company, and was also awarded by Suba himself;

Until I, as a department representative, participated in the formulation of various risk rules together with idols like Guo Jing (Shao Xiaofeng).

Later, the company set up a special network security team to control the risk of the website, and my joining seemed to be a natural thing. When I left the editorial team, I was surprised to find that I had always thought that I was not suitable for the editing work, that I was slow from an early age, and that I could never do a good job as an editor, and that in the year before I left the team, I scored 3.75 points in terms of performance. At this time, I seemed to suddenly understand something, perhaps, it was Li Qi's reason for receiving water from the water tank.

Since then, I have been doing risk control and safety operations. By now, I have begun to do management, and I understand more and more how much wealth the position of editor has given me. It allowed me to understand the basic products of the website and find the direction of risk control that I loved. More importantly, it taught me a lot of things that newcomers need to know, such as a sense of purpose, execution, time management, teamwork, and how to look at a foundational job, in addition to persistence, more importantly, learning and innovation!

Xiao Tie had something to say

This story reads a sense: never look down on the basic work, even if it is simple, can do the most basic work to the extreme, quantitative change produces qualitative change, is a very remarkable thing, continuous learning and innovation attitude is very important!

Author: Li Si

Source: "Ali Wei'er, Look at ▪ Thoughts"

Producer: Alibaba Group

Editor-in-Chief: Zeng Fei

Deputy Editor-in-Chief: Ling Shu, Gu Xiao, Li Meng, Wang Xiaohua

Hu Zhenyu Zhao Jiangnan Xu Shu

Proofreader: Wu Qianyun Shen Hongyan