Notes from an Interview at DHC Software

This post was extracted from my early NetEase blog. NetEase Blog is no longer operating, but looking back, these words are still quite interesting, so I decided to move them over as intact as possible. It is mainly kept as a record; after all, it is from a long time ago, so the quality of the writing, images, and links may all be affected.

This post was originally published on May 24, 2010. I was about 21 years old at the time and was studying in college.

Today I attended a dedicated recruitment session held by DHC Software. Although the position was only the most basic duty engineer, and the internship salary was only 1,000 yuan, I gained quite a lot.

When talking with their HR manager, they mentioned one person who really made me admire him. Like us, he was a junior-college student, but while working as a duty engineer, his work attitude was extremely serious. If a user reported a string of IP addresses, he could identify which machine it was among thousands of computers. He also worked extremely hard during that period and earned quite a few related certificates. His current salary is 14,000 yuan per month. In this era, there really are top performers in every line of work. As long as you work deeply enough, an iron pestle can be ground into a needle.

During the conversation, they said there is an engineer certificate that is quite valuable. They said that as long as you have this certificate, the salary is at least 300,000 yuan per year. Could it really be that exaggerated? Maybe. But these several interviews have given me this thought: academic diplomas seem not to be very useful. What is useful is skill certificates. Many companies only want skills and do not ask about academic background at all. Perhaps for junior-college graduates, what they need is skills, not academic diplomas.