Did you introduce the left ear, Shi Haifeng and other cattle people hungry, who is Zhang Xuefeng? | geek time

Becoming a CTO can be said to be the ultimate ideal of many programmers, and it is also the self-worth realization that most technical people yearn for, and it is indeed worth our continuous pursuit as programmers.

Many people can be programmers, architects, and even technical managers, but once promoted to CTO, it is not very good.

Talking about this topic, I have to talk to you about a legendary technician - former Hungry CTO Zhang Xuefeng.

As we all know, Ele.me, a former unicorn company, is legendary in itself, from a group of undergraduate graduates to start a business project, to the peak of financing 1.25 billion US dollars, becoming the industry leader. Followed by the US group subsidy war, and then finally acquired by Ali, most of the founding team left, which is quite tragic. Among them, Zhang Xuefeng, as the CTO, joined Ele.me in 2015 and is also the first professional manager introduced by Ele.me.

Prior to this, there were only 70 Ele.me technical teams, and in the 3 years after joining Ele.me, Xuefeng developed the Ele.me technical team from 70 people to 1800+ people. It has also introduced a variety of technical cattle from LinkedIn, Facebook, Ali and other engineering and academic circles, including the well-known left ear rat, ACM Fellow Professor He Tian, Shi Haifeng and other cattle people. The daily order level that Hungry Mo can support also ranges from hundreds of thousands to tens of millions.

In addition to introducing talents, Xuefeng also often pushes the team of technical experts to the industry to expose and enhance technical influence, so you may have seen various people with the title of Hungry Mo go to QCon, ArchSummit, product manager conference and other well-known technology product summits to share. In addition, Ele.me's open source products such as Element, Max Q, LinDB, etc., Ele.me off-site multi-live cases are very influential in the industry.

It can be said that Zhang Xuefeng is a hero who single-handedly created the underlying architecture of Ele.me's huge order undertaking capacity, but the difficulty of the talent attraction, the technical and cultural soil building, and the construction process of the underlying structure behind this can be imagined.

For example, when the size of the technical team reached more than 1800 people, he said that as a CTO, he could not do the process of allowing the vast majority of people to enjoy the work, and it was difficult to manage the front line, and many front-line engineers did not know the CTO. On the day Zhang Xuefeng left, the IT who handled the departure told him that I was still meeting you for the first time, and he once said that he felt very ashamed in that situation.

Of course, if you want to build a CTO mindset, this can't happen overnight. It's not that you understand this truth today and become a business wizard tomorrow, but you can get some tips and inspiration through other people's success stories, and gradually form such a mindset. As far as I am concerned, Zhang Xuefeng's experience, from many interviews in the early days, has been very inspiring to me. Therefore, when I knew that Zhang Xuefeng wanted to fully share the "personal thinking" of his many years of CTO, he was particularly shocked.

To know that in the past 1 year, Zhang Xuefeng has been in a "semi-reclusive" state (Hungry mo merged into Ali after 2 years of resignation, and no longer accept interviews), these first-hand experience is really valuable, so the first time, I went to geek time to read the "Super Interview: Dialogue Zhang Xuefeng" column, can only say that the big guy is worthy of being a big guy.

Such as the name of the column, the presentation form is also very fresh, this is an interview resulting from dialogue, through 100+ questions, reviewing his career growth experience as a CTO, work methods, management experience and personal reflection, as well as the "back story" of Ele.me development, such as: because of the downtime was scolded by the front-line sales, the conflict between different teams after the acquisition of Baidu takeaway, the experience of almost layoffs, the CTO's awkward moments and so on.

You will also see a mature CTO, the thinking and insight of the manager, his principles and values of doing things, I think this lesson, can really help those who encounter management bottlenecks, want to break through, find a solution. Recommended to you here, it may not be suitable for everyone, but it must be suitable for people who want to go further on the road of management, the content is highly condensed, and the price is quite nice.