企业不要求工程师资格认证

by Preethi Kasireddy

通过Preethi Kasireddy

谁说工程师不能成为企业家？ (Who says engineers can’t become entrepreneurs?)

A lot of people warned me not to walk away from my great position at Andreessen Horowitz to pursue software engineering.

许多人警告我，不要离开我在Andreessen Horowitz的职位，继续从事软件工程。

…And now that I’m leaving my dream job engineering at Coinbase to co-found a startup, you can bet that “a lot of people” have been reminding me how many startups fail.

…现在，我要离开梦想的工作岗位在Coinbase共同创建一家初创公司，您可以打赌，“很多人”一直在提醒我有多少家初创公司倒闭了。

It was my Mom’s reaction, though, that stuck with me:

不过，是我妈妈的React让我感动：

“Why would you leave the best job in the world… again?”

“你为什么又要离开世界上最好的工作……？”

It’s a good question — and I’m writing this post to answer it.

这是个好问题-我正在写这篇文章来回答。

As those of you who’ve been following along know, the past year and half has been a wild one for me, from falling passionately in love with programming, to leaving an amazing job to pursue this passion, to enduring Hack Reactor’s intensive coding program, to tackling complex problems as an engineer at a major cryptocurrency startup.

正如你们一直关注的人所知，过去的一年半对我来说是疯狂的一年，从热爱编程，到留下一份追求这份激情的出色工作，再到忍受Hack Reactor的密集编码程序，以解决大型加密货币初创公司的工程师的复杂问题。

Long story short, it was an exhilarating journey with countless late nights, early mornings, and moments of self-doubt.

长话短说，这是一段令人振奋的旅程，深夜，清晨和自我怀疑的时刻不计其数。

Today, I’ll pick up where I left off, sharing some of my ups and downs as an engineer at Coinbase… and reveal some of the exciting projects I’m diving into now!

今天，我将继续工作，在Coinbase担任工程师，分享我的一些风风雨雨……并透露一些我现在正在潜入的令人兴奋的项目！

我作为专职软件工程师的经验 (My experience as a full-time software engineer)

It was April of 2016 when Coinbase offered me a software engineering role on their Brokerage team. The team was brilliant, the industry was cutting edge. Needless to say, I accepted immediately! The days before I started were nerve-wracking. (If you’ve ever waited to start a new job before, you know how fear and anxiety can make you second-guess everything.) I haven’t been so nervous to walk into a building since the first day of middle school. ?

是在2016年4月，Coinbase为我提供了他们经纪团队的软件工程职位。团队非常出色，行业处于领先地位。不用说，我立即接受了！在我开始的前几天真是神经nerve。 (如果您以前曾经等过新工作，您就会知道恐惧和焦虑会怎样使您对一切进行第二次猜测。)自中学第一天起，我就没那么紧张地走进过大楼。？

My internal monologue as I rode the elevator up their towering office building in San Francisco’s Financial District went something like this: “I’ve never been a full-time software engineer at a company before. Do I even know what I’m doing? What if I get asked to build a micro-service within 48 hours? Or to rebuild the entire website within a week? I’m surely doomed…” I stepped out of the elevator, took a deep breath — and stood there frozen for two minutes, trying to build up enough courage to ring the buzzer. “Buzzzzz” Naturally, my nervousness was misplaced. The receptionist was warm and kind. The recruiting coordinator was more worried about how I liked my workspace than what I would be doing at it. I’d barely put down my backpack before the CEO, Brian Armstrong, came by to say “Welcome! Glad to have you on board!” “Phew, no micro-services just yet,” I thought. By then, my nervousness turned into excitement — I couldn’t wait to get hacking. Perhaps I’m not ready to build a micro-service on my first day, but I sure was ready to build something! The next few weeks were a steady build of responsibility and familiarity — getting comfortable with the code bases, merging my first few pull requests, and integrating with the workflow, team, and culture. The challenge of diving into a completely new code base, gaining momentum in fixing bugs and implementing features, and building relationships with new friends kept me engaged and excited. Fast-forward a couple months later, and I was firmly settled in. By then, I had two major projects under my belt — one where I A/B tested and implemented a new fee structure, and another where I built a new React/Redux front-end for supporting Ethereum buys and sells. I was ready to start on my third and largest project, which was to rewrite the existing monolith Rails front-end in React. Four months later, we shipped v1 of that massive rewrite. Phew! By then it had already been six months and there were lots of things that I was really enjoying about working at Coinbase:

当我乘坐电梯爬上旧金山金融区高耸的办公大楼时，我的内部独白是这样的：“我以前从未在一家公司担任过专职软件工程师。我什至不知道我在做什么？如果要求我在48小时内构建微服务该怎么办？还是要在一周内重建整个网站？我肯定注定了……”我走下电梯，深吸了一口气-站在那儿冻结了两分钟，试图建立足够的勇气响起蜂鸣器。 “ Buzzzzz”自然，我的神经错位了。接待员热情友好。招聘协调员比我会做的事更担心我对工作空间的喜欢。在首席执行官布莱恩·阿姆斯特朗(Brian Armstrong)来对我说“欢迎光临！”之前，我几乎没有放下背包。很高兴您加入我们！” 我想：“ Ph，暂时还没有微服务。” 那时，我的紧张情绪变得激动起来-我迫不及待想要被黑客入侵。也许我第一天还没有准备好构建微服务，但是我确定已经准备好构建某些东西了 ！接下来的几周，他们逐渐建立起责任心和熟悉度-熟悉代码库，合并我的前几个请求请求以及与工作流，团队和文化相结合。进入一个全新的代码库，修复错误和实现功能以及与新朋友建立关系的势头不断，这让我充满了激情。几个月后，我很快就完成了工作，然后我就牢牢地安顿了下来。那时，我有两个主要项目在我的领导下–一个是IA / B测试并实施了新的费用结构的项目，另一个是我构建了新的React / Redux支持以太坊买卖的前端。我准备开始我的第三个也是最大的项目，该项目是重写React中现有的整体式Rails前端。四个月后，我们交付了v1的大规模重写。！到那时已经有六个月了，在Coinbase上工作我真的很享受很多事情：

球队 (Team)

My gut instinct about the team was right. I couldn’t have asked for a smarter bunch of engineers to work with everyday.

我对团队的直觉是正确的。我从来没有想过要有一群聪明的工程师来每天工作。

From infrastructure, data science, fraud, payments, web and mobile, I had infinite opportunity to learn and grow from engineers across different engineering domains.

从基础设施，数据科学，欺诈，支付，网络和移动设备，我有无限的机会向不同工程领域的工程师学习和发展。

Beyond their strong technically chops, I admired that they were also well-rounded. (Not to mention mature thoughtful and independent thinkers.)

除了他们的技术上很强的斩波能力外，我还钦佩他们也很全面。 (更不用说成熟的有思想和独立的思想家。)

所有权 (Ownership)

I loved that Coinbase gives engineers a high degree of autonomy and ownership over the implementation details of the features they build, rather than a top-down regimented system.

我喜欢Coinbase为工程师提供了高度的自主权和所有权，使他们能够对其所构建功能的实现细节进行控制，而不是采用自上而下的规范系统。

Being invested in my projects and tackling problems independently helped me learn and grow more quickly as an engineer.

投入我的项目并独立解决问题有助于我作为一名工程师学习和更快地成长。

成长心态 (Growth mindset)

Another thing that I appreciated was that the company deeply cares about continuous feedback and learning. Nothing we did was ever perfect — in fact, disorder was the norm.

我欣赏的另一件事是，该公司非常关心持续的反馈和学习。我们所做的一切都不是完美的-实际上，无序是常态。

Regardless, the team would make sure to have retrospectives after every project to discuss what did and didn’t go well.

无论如何，团队将确保在每个项目之后都进行回顾，以讨论哪些方面做得不好，哪些方面做得不好。

…And let me tell you, we didn’t hold back. We criticized and laughed at ourselves, and then thought carefully about how we could avoid those mistakes the next time around. Personal and team progress is hard but important work.

…让我告诉你，我们没有退缩。我们批评并嘲笑自己，然后仔细考虑下一次如何避免这些错误。个人和团队进步是艰巨而重要的工作。

哦，这么多津贴 (Oh, so many perks)

I don’t really have to explain this one — who can resist the fully stocked kitchen, lovely office staff, pleasantly decorated bathrooms, and catered meals — all with a 360-degree view of beautiful San Francisco?

我真的不需要解释这一点-谁可以抵抗设施齐备的厨房，可爱的办公室工作人员，装潢宜人的浴室和餐饮服务-所有这些都可以360度欣赏美丽的旧金山景色？

缺点 (The downsides)

As with everything, every pro comes with cons. Here are a few things that I personally didn’t like about plugging into the corporate engineering structure:

与所有内容一样，每个专业人士都带有缺点。我个人不喜欢插入公司工程结构中的几件事：

在Rails中工作 (Working in Rails)

While half of my time was spent in the new JavaScript and React front-end, the other half inevitably involved fixing bugs and implementing features in our monolithic Rails application. Rails is a phenomenal framework for many reasons, but personally, I was struggling to fall in love with it. It eventually became the least favorite part of my job. As regular readers know, the JavaScript community and ecosystem is a huge passion area for me. So naturally, I wanted to contribute my time and energy to mastering JavaScript, functional programming, and the web. Instead, I was fixing uninteresting bugs and implementing unsexy features in what felt like the wrong framework.

我一半的时间花在了新JavaScript和React前端上，另一半不可避免地涉及到在我们的整体Rails应用程序中修复错误和实现功能。 Rails是一个惊人的框架，其原因很多，但就我个人而言，我一直在努力地爱上它。最终，它成为我工作中最不喜欢的部分。普通读者知道，JavaScript社区和生态系统对我来说是一个巨大的热情领域。因此，我自然而然地想花时间和精力来掌握JavaScript，函数式编程和Web。相反，我修复了一些有趣的错误，并在感觉错误的框架中实现了一些不受欢迎的功能。

Unfortunately, the reality is that maintaining old monolithic software is a core part of what we, as software engineers, must do when we’re working in a large engineering organization. Those are just the facts of life!

不幸的是，现实是，维护旧的单片软件是我们在大型工程组织中工作时作为软件工程师必须做的工作的核心部分。这些只是生活中的事实！

开放式办公室工作空间 (Open office work space)

Open offices are wildly popular in the tech world — in spite of the the many studies showing how they can kill creativity and make focus impossible.

尽管许多研究表明，开放式办公室如何破坏创造力并使其无法集中注意力，但开放式办公室在科技界却广受欢迎。

The constant human traffic and frequent interruptions made it feel like I was coding on live television. I found it difficult to be productive and eventually found myself working from home more and more frequently — it was the only place I could focus and get deep work done.

不断的人流量和频繁的打扰使我感觉就像在直播电视上编码。我发现提高工作效率很困难，最终发现自己在家工作的频率越来越高-这是我唯一可以集中精力并完成深入工作的地方。

我并不热衷的产品和项目 (The product and projects I wasn’t passionate about)

Alright, enough complaining Preethi! Time to get honest about why I felt restless — the truth is, my unhappiness had nothing to do with Coinbase as an organization. At the end of the day, it was because I wasn’t passionate about the product Coinbase offers.

好吧，足够抱怨普雷蒂斯！是时候为我为什么会感到不安而诚实了-事实是， 我的不高兴与Coinbase作为一个组织无关。 归根结底，这是因为我对Coinbase提供的产品不满 。

First, it wasn’t something that fired me up to get out of bed in the morning. It was difficult to care deeply about the features we were building, when financial products and services wasn’t a passion area for me personally. Second, I realized that being at a company with separate roles for product management, project management, engineering management, design, and engineering inevitably meant that the role I served was purely engineering — to implement and engineer solutions and fix bugs.

首先，这不是让我起床起床的东西。当金融产品和服务对我个人而言并不是一个充满激情的领域时，很难深切地关心我们正在构建的功能。其次，我意识到，在一家分别负责产品管理，项目管理，工程管理，设计和工程的公司中，我所担任的角色不可避免地意味着我只是纯粹的工程人员-实施和设计解决方案并修复错误。

Those of you who know me can probably imagine how neglecting the entrepreneurial part of my mind would leave me unsatisfied. I wanted to do everything from identifying the business purpose, to building the product, to maintaining and advancing the codebase.

那些了解我的人可能可以想象，如果忽略我的创业精神会使我感到不满意。我想做所有事情，从确定业务目的到构建产品，再到维护和改进代码库。

I needed to be both the entrepreneur and the programmer.

我需要既是企业家又是程序员。

质疑公司工程轨迹 (Doubting the corporate engineering trajectory)

At this point, I knew that the career trajectory I was on needed to change course. Maybe not as drastically as leaving finance for engineering — but something that engaged me as both an engineer and an entrepreneur needed to happen. Soon. Nights and weekends became my “entrepreneur-programmer” time, and I meticulously planned my schedule so I’d have 1–2 hours every day to explore, learn, hack, write, and have fun. Soon, that 1–2 hours grew into 2–4 hours a day. At a certain point, side projects like writing and hacking on app ideas began to seem more “real” than my 9–5. Did I feel guilty for wanting to leave a perfect team to work on another crazy dream? Of course.

在这一点上，我知道我需要改变职业路线。也许不如把工程学上的资金花那么多钱-但是需要使我既作为工程师又作为企业家的一种想法发生。不久。晚上和周末成为我的“企业家程序员”时间，我精心计划了自己的日程安排，因此我每天会有1-2个小时来探索，学习，修改，写作和娱乐。很快，这1-2小时就变成了每天2-4小时。在某个时候，诸如编写和破解应用程序创意之类的副项目似乎比我的9-5更加“真实”。我是否想离开一支完美的团队去完成另一个疯狂的梦想而感到内？ 当然。

Rather than make a spur of the moment decision, I decided to take some time off to reflect on what I was feeling. It’s tricky to figure out what truly makes you tick. But I needed to figure it out so I could answer the burning question: where can I contribute to this world in the most meaningful way?

我决定不花时间去思考自己的感受，而不是立即做出决定。弄清楚真正使您打勾的技巧很棘手。但是我需要弄清楚这一点，这样我才能回答这个迫切的问题： 在这里我可以以最有意义的方式为这个世界做出贡献吗？

I treated this time like a “test drive” to see what it’s like to wake up every morning and do whatever my heart and mind desired. Was this just a phase, or could I turn my ideas into a full-time reality? Two weeks turned into a month. And then three months. And then to this moment, writing this post: the conviction that I’m ready to leave Coinbase and pursue new, more personal coding challenges and entrepreneurial endeavors.

这次我把这当作一次“试驾”，看清每天早晨醒来做我想做的事情的感觉。这仅仅是一个阶段，还是可以将我的想法变成一个全职的现实？两个星期变成一个月。然后三个月。然后到现在为止，写这篇文章：坚信我准备离开Coinbase并追求新的，更多的个人编码挑战和创业精神。

这是跳船的“合适时机”吗？ (Is this the the “right time” to jump ship?)

One of the biggest things we struggle with as entrepreneurs is knowing when “the right time” is — the right time to pursue that passion, the right time to shun reason in the name of fulfilling our dreams.

作为企业家，我们所面临的最大挑战之一就是知道“正确的时间”何时-正确的时间追求激情，正确的时间以实现梦想的名义回避理性。

But I’ve come to realize that there is no rule book that will give us the answer. That the “right time” never comes — you can spend your whole life getting your checks and balances in order and it’ll never feel “just right.” There’s always more you can do to prepare, get more experience, and minimize risk.

但是我已经意识到，没有规则书可以给我们答案。 “合适的时机”永远不会到来-您可以花费一生来保持秩序井井有条，并且永远不会感到“恰到好处”。您总是可以做更多的准备，获得更多的经验，并将风险降至最低。

…But that doesn’t mean we should. Our minds will always rationalize the fear of the unknown. So is now the right time for me to leave Coinbase? I honestly don’t know for sure. In fact, a few of my close friends and mentors said that waiting until I get “2 years of experience” seems more appropriate. Or that “testing the waters” by working at a small startup would be a better way to ease into it.

…但这并不意味着我们应该。我们的思想将永远使对未知的恐惧合理化。那么，现在是我离开Coinbase的合适时间吗？老实说，我不确定。实际上，我的一些亲密朋友和导师说，等我获得“ 2年的经验”似乎更合适。或者通过在小型初创公司工作来“试水”将是一种更好的方法。

Is it really, though? Or would that just be an excuse to escape the fear and uncertainty of doing it now. And here’s my conclusion:

真的吗？否则，这只是逃避现在这样做的恐惧和不确定性的借口。这是我的结论：

I don’t believe another six months or two years will make the answer any more clear.

我认为再过六个月或两年不会使答案更加明确。

What I do know is that I feel more confident than ever in my skills as a software engineer. I’m proud of everything I’ve been able to learn and improve my skills at thanks to Coinbase, such as:

我所知道的是，我对软件工程师的技能比以往任何时候都更有信心。感谢Coinbase，我为能够学习和提高自己的技能而感到自豪，例如：

Version control (git)版本控制(git)
Deployment (Docker, circleCI)部署(Docker，circleCI)
Monitoring (New Relic)监视(新文物)
Error reporting (Bugsnag)错误报告(Bugsnag)
How to refactor legacy code into a new framework (Rails → React)如何将遗留代码重构为新框架(Rails→React)
How to refactor from one state management library to another (jQuery → Redux → Mobx)如何从一个状态管理库重构到另一个(jQuery→Redux→Mobx)
How to give thoughtful, constructive code reviews如何进行周到，建设性的代码审查
How to efficiently and effectively collaborate with designers in going from idea → mockup → wireframe → code如何从构思→原型→线框→代码高效地与设计师合作
How to test code using unit tests and integration tests如何使用单元测试和集成测试来测试代码
Knowing when to choose between the “correct and thoughtful” solution that takes longer to implement but is more robust and scalable vs. a solution that is quick and “does the job” but isn’t robust or scalable知道何时在“正确和周到”的解决方案之间进行选择，该解决方案需要较长的实施时间，但更加健壮和可扩展，而不是快速，“完成工作”但又不健壮或不可扩展的解决方案
How to handle situations where you deploy a really terrible bug that causes the entire application to crash in the middle of a big product launch ?在大型产品发布过程中，如何部署导致整个应用程序崩溃的真正可怕的错误，该如何处理？
How to collaborate with a team of engineers to build a production-grade application that scales to millions of users如何与工程师团队合作以构建可扩展到数百万用户的生产级应用程序
… and so much more……还有更多

And of course, there are tons of things I haven’t learned yet — and all the tantalizing things I’ll probably never learn about programming.

当然，还有很多我还没有学过的东西，而所有关于编程的诱人的东西我可能永远都不会学到。

Ultimately, it’s okay, because the most important skill I’ve learned over the last two years is how to learn — the master key to learning and conquering any tool, framework or language I need.

最终，这没关系，因为我在过去两年中学到的最重要的技能是如何学习 -学习和征服我需要的任何工具，框架或语言的万能钥匙。

This is all I ever wanted when I set out to go “learn to code,” and now I have it at my finger tips. Why wouldn’t I use these skills to build my own products full time? The answer is simple: “why not.”

当我着手“学习编码”时，这就是我所想要的，而现在，我动动手指即可。我为什么不使用这些技能全职生产自己的产品？答案很简单： “为什么不。”

Life is too short not to experiment — and the time to see what value I can create through those experiments is now, while I’m young, driven, and the worst case scenarios aren’t really that bad.

生命太短了，无法进行实验-现在是时候看看我可以通过这些实验创造什么价值了，而我还很年轻，很热心，最坏的情况并不是那么糟糕。

As Leo Tolstoy puts it so eloquently:

正如托尔斯泰雄辩地说的那样：

“Once we’ve thrown off our habitual paths, we think all is lost; but it’s only here that the new and the good begins.”

“一旦我们摆脱了习惯性的道路，我们认为一切都将丢失；但只有在这里，新事物和美好事物才开始。”

下一个是什么？ (So what’s next?)

骇客 (Hacking)

There’s so much in the world of software that I’ve been exploring and hacking on —and I’m particularly interested in a few problems I’d love to tackle. I couldn’t be more excited to have the opportunity to go deeper into these problems with my entrepreneurial hat on.

我一直在探索和研究软件领域，因此我对自己想解决的一些问题特别感兴趣。有机会戴着我的企业家帽子深入探讨这些问题，我感到非常兴奋。

教学与写作 (Teaching and Writing)

In addition to hacking away, I’ll continue to spend a portion of my time writing, teaching, speaking, and advocating JavaScript, the web, and functional programming.

除了破解之外，我还将继续花费一部分时间来编写，教学，演讲和倡导JavaScript，网络和函数式编程。

If leveling up your Functional JavaScript knowledge is on the to-do list, you can sign up for my free email course on The Fundamentals of Functional Programming. I’ll also be creating a long-form video course called “Mastering Functional JavaScript” later this year.

如果您对功能JavaScript的了解达到了待办事项清单，您可以注册免费的电子邮件课程“功能编程基础” 。我还将在今年晚些时候创建一个长视频课程，称为“ 精通功能JavaScript ”。

有什么风险？ (What are the risks?)

Any experiment comes with the risk of failure — particularly high when it comes to startups since, after all, nine out of ten startups fail.

任何实验都会带来失败的风险-对于初创企业而言，风险尤其高，因为毕竟十分之九的初创企业会失败。

That said, I believe that the personal and career “risks” of taking time to build a startup idea are way, way lower than we’re lead to believe.

就是说，我相信，花时间建立一个初创公司想法的个人和职业 “风险”比我们想象的要低得多。

Particularly as an engineer with no major family obligations, the worst case scenario for me is that I crash, burn, and take a new engineering job a few months later. Starting salaries are higher than most other industries, and there are always more engineering jobs available than qualified candidates to fill them.

特别是作为没有主要家庭责任的工程师，对我来说最糟糕的情况是几个月后我坠毁，烧毁并从事新的工程工作。起薪高于大多数其他行业，并且总有比合格的候选人更多的工程工作可以填补。

So yes, my startup ideas could totally fail. Or I could end up losing interest in my passions. Or I could get hit by a bus tomorrow. The list goes on.

所以是的，我的创业想法可能会完全失败。否则我可能最终对我的激情失去兴趣。否则我明天可能会被公共汽车撞到。 清单继续。

Do I have control over any of these events from happening? If I try my hardest, are any of them my fault? Probably not.

我可以控制这些事件的发生吗？如果我尽力而为，那是我的错吗？可能不是。

If there’s one thing I’ve learned through the major transitions in my life — from moving across continents, countries, and cities, to becoming financially independent at 18, to hustling my way into Silicon Valley, to conquering my dream of becoming a programmer — it’s that uncertainty motivates me to succeed. In a way, it’s almost comfortable.

如果我从人生的重大转变中学到了什么，从跨大洲，各个国家和城市迁移，到18岁成为财务独立者，到硅谷奔走，征服成为程序员的梦想，正是这种不确定性促使我成功。在某种程度上，这几乎是舒适的。

In my eyes, the only true failure would be not starting in the first place.

在我眼中，唯一真正的失败不会首先开始。

期待 (Looking forward)

I spent the last two years building a strong foundation as an engineer and more importantly, finding myself — my passions, interests, strengths and weaknesses. The next stage of my growth will be all about taking that experience and creating something meaningful for the world out of it.

在过去的两年中，我为工程师奠定了坚实的基础，更重要的是，找到了自己-我的激情，兴趣，优势和劣势。我成长的下一阶段将是汲取经验，并从中创造出对世界有意义的东西。

I love the saying by Sidney A. Friendman:

我喜欢Sidney A. Friendman的一句话：

“You can achieve anything you want in life if you have the courage to dream it, the intelligence to make a realistic plan, and the will to see that plan through to the end.”

“如果您有勇气去实现梦想，拥有制定切实可行计划的智慧，以及能够看到计划到底的意志，您就可以实现生活中想要的一切。”

I’ve dreamt it, sketched out a realistic plan, and now it’s time I see it through to the end.

我梦到了，草拟了一个切合实际的计划，现在是时候把它看到底。

Now it’s your turn: tell me about your journey.

现在轮到您了： 告诉我您的旅程 。

Have you ever felt unhappy with your day-to-day? What doubts keep you from chasing your dream — or what steps have you taken to overcome them?

您是否对日常工作感到不满意？哪些疑问使您无法追求自己的梦想？或者您采取了哪些措施来克服它们？

Your story is just as important as mine. I can’t wait to hear it!

你的故事和我的故事一样重要。我等不及要听了！

Want to stay up to date on my journey and work? Just click “follow” on Medium, Twitter (@iam_preethi) or my site.

是否想了解我的旅途和工作情况？只需在Medium ，Twitter( @iam_preethi )或我的网站上单击“关注”。

翻译自: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/who-says-engineers-cant-be-entrepreneurs-8c7f7a6834da/