After Huawei was "stuck" by the chip, it launched the "Genius Boy" program to select more and stronger technical talents for Huawei. Employees who can become "genius boys" need to go through 7 rounds of rigorous interviews and screen them layer by layer. After confirming the status of "genius boy", the annual salary will be at least one million.
Zhihui Jun is a talent recruited into Huawei through the "Genius Youth" program in 2020. His main focus is AI edge heterogeneous computing. What is surprising is that just 2 years after joining Huawei, Mr. Zhihui officially announced that he has left Huawei and will start his own business in and . Is it impossible to retain talents with an annual salary of one million?
To be honest, as top technical talents, it is difficult to find a better place than Huawei in China. Although Huawei has experienced its "darkest moment" in the past three years, Huawei's emphasis on scientific research has not decreased at all, and has increased instead of decreasing. As we all know, Huawei’s investment in scientific research in 2021 will exceed 140 billion yuan.
According to the "2022 Global Industrial R&D Investment Ranking", Huawei ranks fourth with 140.98 billion yuan. Although the ranking has dropped, the amount of investment has increased to a certain extent. What's interesting is that Apple , which owns nearly 80% of the profits of the global smartphone market, and Samsung , the mobile phone brand ranked first in global shipments, have lower R&D investments than Huawei.
It can be seen that Huawei represents the highest level in the country in the field of technology research and development, and is also the "face" of the domestic technology industry. This should also be a company that technical talents dream of working for, right? But why is Huawei still unable to retain talents even though it has an annual salary of one million?
In fact, brain drain is not an "isolated case". In addition to Huawei, many domestic technology companies, and even American technology giants such as Apple, Intel , have also encountered serious brain drain problems. Taking Apple as an example, the iPhone14 Pro series "overturned" and the performance of the A16 chip was lower than expected. This is closely related to the brain drain of Apple's chip R&D department. The departure of engineers has brought great difficulties to the performance upgrade of Apple's self-developed A series chips.
At the same time, Apple bought Intel's chip team, but spent three years developing its own baseband chip and still achieved nothing. And many top talents have also left the team one after another. Apple is also in a dilemma and has to continue to use Qualcomm external 5G baseband chips.
Obviously, with the exception of Huawei, not only Chinese companies but also the whole world are experiencing serious brain drain problems. And Zhihui Jun's response seemed to give the answer. Since they are "genius boys", these talents should have higher pursuits. Perhaps an annual salary of one million is an astronomical figure in the eyes of ordinary people, but to these top talents, it may not be anything. Moreover, top talents also have higher pursuits, such as realizing self-worth. Therefore, self-employment may be more attractive to this group of talents.
In fact, most of the top talents who left Apple also chose to start their own businesses. Although Apple has given conditions such as "more stability" and "higher returns" to appease the company's engineers, it is obvious that most technology companies do not know what these talents want. Therefore, to solve the problem of brain drain, the root cause may still be to understand the needs of talents.
In addition to creating corporate value, we need to allow these talents to realize more self-worth. What do you think about this? Welcome to leave comments and messages!
