hello everyone
I am Laoshi
Today we won't talk about chips
It's a
heart-to-heart video
Just wanted to talk to you all
My previous experience working at Intel
Why I choose to give up academia to go to the company in the first place?
What is it like to work at Intel
Then why go back to China?
Why did you end up in academia?
I'm not trying to give you any guidance
or a suggestion
just talking about myself
Because the account of Lao Shi Tanxin has been around for almost two years.
Bilibili has more than 200,000 fans
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always have fans
Curious about my work experience
So in this video I will chat with you all
Thank you very much for your support
No chip knowledge
So friends who want to see technical analysis
You can watch my previous video
I posted a video related to the college entrance examination before
I talked to you about my bizarre educational experience
That is how I got from the key classes of key high schools in Shandong Province
Went to the Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology
Then went to Imperial College London
and won the full award
In fact, that video is not teaching you how to be a human being.
I'm not suggesting that everyone should go my way.
This video is the same
Please concentrate on your symptom
Because my experience is probably not suitable for you
After Ph.D.
During the years until returning China
I made three important decisions
Next, we will talk one by one
the first decision i made
Just don't go into academia
i want to go to the company
In fact, there are mainly two ways out of the doctor
One is to continue to do academic
Another is to go to industry
Most of my doctoral friends
It's actually the first way
That is to continue to be a postdoctoral fellow
Then find a teaching opportunity
Although my research is ok
and published some articles
But I did not continue to stay in academia
What was considered at the time was when making choices in the future
Many people say that the first degree is everything
Undergraduate school is the second label of people
So it's basically impossible for me to do academics anymore.
Because academia is actually a person who pays special attention to one's background
Especially the first degree
Old fans should know
I don't agree with that statement
But at the time, I didn't have to try it myself.
I just considering
How to avoid weaknesses
It's better to go to a place that only sees ability
At that time, I thought that going to the company was such a place.
My job search wasn't all smooth sailing.
Employment of a Ph.D.
It's not as wide as many people think
Because although you have read books for so many years
But it is easy to be unfit for a higher post but unwilling to take a lower one
In fact, the content of my company's work at the time
Not related
to my PhD project
Not as good as those students who have not read
Go directly to the company to save four or five years of work experience
more helpful
So I ended up going to a place called Altera
Companies that make FPGA chips
It was the second largest FPGA company in the world at the time
But just a few months later
Altera was acquired by Intel for $16.7 billion
This is the largest acquisition in Intel's history.
So it is equivalent to me entering Intel by mistake.
Many young friends may think that Intel is nothing
In recent years, it has been severely suppressed by AMD, Nvidia, Apple arm
but 10 years ago
Intel is on this planet
The biggest and most arrogant chip company
No matter how many times you say AMD Yes
it is objective facts
So I passively joined Intel at the time
I'm really excited
It's a highlight of my life
At least in the UK Intel hiring is low
And mostly sales and marketing positions
Recruitment for technical positions is required
Senior engineer with more than 10 years working experience
So rather I took a so-called shortcut
But unexpectedly
The five or six years I have been working at Intel
Also Intel's most turbulent years
There's a lot of things that look pretty shit right now
For example, the continuous change of management
I've had three CEOs in a few years
Technically, I'm starting to pull my hips.
Looking at the original best semiconductor process
From one generation ahead of the world to two or three generations behind
Was overtaken by Taiwan Electromechanical and Samsung
Chip products have gone from far surpassing AMD
To be beaten by AMD and Apple
Did not catch up the Artificial intelligence
Taken by Nvidia
The stock price soars
I have also witnessed Intel's slow decline
from a smash hit to the beginning.
Although various turmoil
In fact, the lower-level employees will not be affected too much.
Because those are the things that big bosses think about
So my work experience at Intel in previous years
very happy
Luckily, I got into a group with masters
Lots of new technologies here
The company also provides a great platform
There are many opportunities for exchange and learning across departments and regions
I also learned about the rigorous business processes and management methods of large companies
for me personally
The best places to work at Intel
is to have access to some cutting-edge technologies
Participate in R&D work
What I was doing at the time was the application of FPGA in the cloud data center
For example, designing and verifying various key IP
hardware and software architecture
Then to the design verification test of the board and system, etc.
There are five or six big brothers who have worked for decades in the team
follow them
Raised very fast
I have learned a lot technically
Now the hot smart network card and DPU and so on these technologies
In fact, it has been researched many years ago.
So everyone can see
The industry actually has a very long-term layout
Another benefit of working at Intel is that
The company provides a very large platform
Allows you to see other than your own work
many other things
The company's intranet has a lot of technical materials and learning materials
everyone can see
When I was in school before, I felt that the research I did was cutting-edge
But after I came here, I found that there are actually more excellent researches here.
There are also better projects
Open up your vision
There are many opportunities for international exchanges within Intel
For example, an internal technology summit is held every few years.
like academic conferences
Also write papers for publication
Then it was very ceremonial to go to the speech.
But this is a closed-door meeting
no publicity
All papers are also not published publicly
when i first went
Intel wraps up Portland convention center for a week
Thousands of people came from all over the world
this will be interesting
Thousands of people go to lunch in one hall every day
then like Jim Keller
Raja Kudos these technical leaders or top big bulls
Just on the stage to tell you about the development trend of future technology
Or share their approach to academic or engineering
very hardcore
also very enjoyable
Because it is a closed-door meeting
Information will not be shared
So there will be a lot of the latest technology
Even the black technology released details at the meeting
Products formed by these technologies
maybe many years later
will actually be brought to the market
So it will give you a feeling of being ahead of the times
Then from the perspective of company operation and management
I also learned a lot
Intel's process is very rigorous
There is a corresponding process for everything you want to do
More importantly, there are special people to do special things
For example, I have to apply for a multiple work visa.
All the process is done by the company
Visas like my wife and children are also provided by the company for free.
Because these are necessary conditions for employees to work with peace of mind
I think this is very human
Speaking of Humanization
The management of our department is actually more humane.
Can work from home without attendance
Then leave as you like
Salary and benefits are not as high as software Internet companies
But in general, it can far exceed the local average in the UK
After talking about the advantages
Let's talk about the disadvantages
Because Intel is just too big
So inevitably there will be various problems
The biggest problem is that it is slow
Particularly suitable for business-related decisions
and very slow in advancing
The teams that work on the same project as me may be all over the world
Europe except the UK
Ireland, Poland, Denmark, Germany
In addition to Europe, America and India
Then the client is a Chinese internet company
Therefore, it is also inseparable from the Chinese team.
This makes communication very complicated.
The best time to do the work is often missed by going back and forth
After I returned to China, I also communicated with many DPU companies.
Most of them will say that their core competitiveness
is a deep understanding of the business
I heard the same
But also helpless
Because it's not that Intel's understanding of the business is not deep enough
But the feedback loop of globalization is just too slow
The consequence of this is that although I did everything I did at the time, I did it for a long time
As a result, customers no longer need
The project also came to an end
Very depressed for a long time
Work for the fifth year
Due to some key IP
Development is almost over
Many new projects fail
So daily work is like building blocks to do some physical labor
There is basically no essential innovation
And I'm a person who doesn't really want to follow the rules
So gradually, I became less and less aware of my work.
Plus new CEO Pat Gelsinger takes over
The management basically shuffled the cards
Although we are in the mountains of England and the emperor is far away
But aftershocks inevitably spread to
Various bosses who are directly responsible for our team
Change like a revolving lantern
that in this case it is difficult to have very uniform
and long-term development strategies and planning
Therefore, it is not conducive to personal growth and continued development.
That's when I knew it was time to leave
Not just leaving my first job this time
Leaving the company where I worked for 6 years
Also left the country where he worked and lived for 11 years
I did a video chat before about my journey back to China
Those who haven't seen it can check it out
There are many reasons why I came back
for personal reasons
There are various reasons for having a family
A lot of people think this is very utilitarian
Many people don't understand
Why do you have a comfortable life abroad?
want to come back
I can't really respond to this comment
Because everyone's life is different
I don't want everyone to do the same
It's not about giving you chicken soup.
Teacher Luo Xiang once said
Everyone's on a stage they didn't choose
Act out your own life according to the script written by others
The only thing we should do
Just try to play your script
Naked resignation and returning to China are not necessarily the most rational decisions in the eyes of others
But it's the best decision I've ever made
I think there are more opportunities in China and closer to my family
I also want my children to grow up here
Even if he must leave later
But maybe that's how my life script was written
All I can do is try my best to play it well
After returning to China, there are also so-called million-dollar annual salary offers from big factories
But didn't go
Back to academia
Back to the Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
This is where my dream started
The reason why I made such a decision
Is it because I still want to do something innovative and creative?
Take some paths that no one else has traveled
It's been like this since I went to work and went back to China
And academic research is the study of things that no one has done before.
Thank you very much for providing a good platform
I also hope to be able to pass this platform
to help more people
Then give more students a chance
to engage and engage in chips
There is also FPGA-related work and academic research
Many students may have seen
I posted a job advert earlier.
In recent months, I have also found a lot of very lovely classmates
We did some really interesting things together
We also welcome more students to join us
The above is after I walked out of campus in the past few years
Three important decisions to make
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