The U.S. branch of MSI has been established and is located in Cupertino, Silicon Valley.

Rented a two-story office building.

It has recruited more than 300 employees, 260 of whom are senior engineers from large companies with rich work experience. There is no way, newcomers cannot be found.

Pink and tender college students are the targets of competition for Silicon Valley giants. Ziweixing can only compete for some mature and polished talents in their thirties and forties.

From the second half of 2008 to the first half of 2009, an unprecedented wave of unemployment broke out in Silicon Valley. The unemployment rate was the highest in the United States. Cupertino is one of the core cities in Silicon Valley, and the bankruptcy rate of technology companies here has been

More than 30%.

In some small cities in Silicon Valley, the bankruptcy rate exceeds 50%. In other words, more than half of the companies have gone bankrupt.

In this general environment, Sequoia Capital organized a large investment conference.

Pictures from the meeting have circulated.

Above it is a huge tombstone inscribed with "The Golden Age Has Rested".

The general meaning is that several big guys at Sequoia Capital believe that the golden age of Silicon Valley in the past two decades is gone forever. The current crisis is more serious than everyone imagined. They must cover their money bags. This will be a long-term crisis.

A “longer recession” beyond the bubble crisis of 2000.

There are a lot of negative voices in the market.

Very good!

The more they pessimize, the smoother Ziweixing's U.S. business will develop.

Lu Qi was originally a big shot at the top of Silicon Valley. He spread his banner, recruited talents, and received resumes like snowflakes.

Of course, it is not easy to recruit such an outstanding person as Lu Qi.

Previously at Yahoo, his annual salary was US$15 million.

Working at Ziweixing, the annual salary is US$1.2 million.

However, he received a five-year option on 10 million shares. According to Ziweixing’s last round of financing quotation, 10 million shares are worth nearly US$300 million.

If you want to get all the stocks, there are three main requirements.

First, it will open up opportunities for Ziweixing’s business in the United States;

Second, Ziweixing Silicon Valley Research Institute must be built as planned;

Third, we must be sufficiently competitive in the European and American markets.

From the current point of view, the first request has been carried out smoothly.

This time when he came to the United States, Zhou Buqi had to deal with more things. In addition to two secretaries, Feng Muer and Sun Wanran, there were also Vice President Zhen Yu, Vice President Wang Haiyang, and Deputy Financial Director Zhu Zhuo.

MSI’s number one CFO Wang Haoyang and others.

Let’s go to the North American branch first.

The office building is new.

The office environment is very good, the decoration is new, trendy and warm.

However, the decoration styles of the two floors upstairs and downstairs are completely different. Lu Qi smiled and explained that this place was originally the office space of two companies. They both went bankrupt, so he took it over. The decoration and office equipment are all the same.

New, total package for $2 million.

These computers and servers alone are worth more than 10 million US dollars.

Zhou Buqi couldn't help but sigh.

What a waste of these old beauties!

"It seems that the companies upstairs can't continue to operate. I plan to take them over as well." Lu Qi is very satisfied with the location here. "The two floors are used as business office areas, and the two floors upstairs can be used as research centers."

.”

Zhou Buqi looked at the thick stack of documents on his desk.

At least half a meter high.

I walked over and took a look, and it turned out to be a resume.

I'm going!

Is this a few thousand copies?

In the early stages of starting a business, recruitment is the most important. Only by selecting the right people can the business plan be implemented. Therefore, many times, the most important task for entrepreneurs in the early stage is recruitment. 80% of the time is spent looking at resumes and conducting interviews.

In process.

Zhou Buqi walked over, flipped through it casually, and said without raising his head: "You need to find a few assistants to at least screen your resume for you first."

"I'm looking for it." Lu Qi smiled, "It's not easy to find a trustworthy personnel officer. Now is the period of laying the foundation, so no mistakes can be made. It's good to have a passion for work."

“How many people can we recruit every month?”

"If it's a technical field, I can interview 20 people every day and leave 5-8 people. I can recruit 150 people every day. Other fields will be more complicated and you have to find peers to understand the situation. I will try to recruit 1,000 people within a year.

people."

"Half a year!"

"Um?"

Lu Qi was slightly startled.

Zhou Buqi flipped through his resume and said without raising his head: "In half a year, we will recruit 1,000 people. This opportunity is rare, and we must start our business in Silicon Valley as soon as possible."

Lu Qi thought for a moment, "That requires several important helpers, marketing, financial and human resources."

Zhou Buqi raised his head and said, "Haiyang, will you stay and help me?"

Wang Haiyang smiled and said: "No problem!"

When recruiting the vice president of Ziweixing's US branch, Lu Qi cannot be solely responsible for it. It will be monolithic and there will be management risks. Involving Wang Haiyang is a meritocracy.

"Your resumes..."

Zhou Buqi looked at some of them casually and almost threw them away after just one glance. Looking directly at the age column, many people were in their 40s and 50s, and there were also programmers in their 60s who were looking for jobs.

This is too exaggerated.

An old man over fifty is still writing code?

This is not to say that there is no age discrimination. The technology in the key computer field is changing too fast. Basically, five years is an era.

Programming languages ​​are also emerging and changing continuously.

Lu Qi coughed lightly and said helplessly: "There is no way. Many people can't afford to eat without jobs. Consumerism is popular here and there is no savings. We can only continue to work."

Zhou Buqi waved his hand, "I'm not talking about this, I'm talking about technology. At this age, can you still keep up with the times?"

In China, except for employees working in state-owned enterprises, there are basically no programmers over 40 who are still programming.

Either transition to management or become a technical director.

If you continue to take the technical route, you will also move closer to the architecture. It means relying on experience and algorithmic thinking to design some "outlines", and then the young people will improve this outline and write a beautifully written article.

Just like Dr. Wang Jian of cloud computing.

At the beginning of the year, due to many technical difficulties that could not be overcome, a lot of gossip came out in Ziweixing. It was said that it was Boss Zhou, were you fooled by Wang Jian?

He knows absolutely nothing about computer technology, yet he still wants to build the world's most cutting-edge cloud computing project. Isn't this nonsense?

He is a psychology major!

If he has the ability, let him write a piece of code and make a small program for everyone to see?

In order to appease the team, Dr. Wang Jian said that he would find time to write a program to prove his strength. It has been more than half a year, and his program has not been written yet.

Fortunately, following his technical ideas, many technical problems are gradually being overcome, and the doubts are gradually subsided.

Lu Qi smiled and said, "Okay, it's different here in Silicon Valley than in China."

"oh?"

"Here in Silicon Valley, no matter how old you are, as long as you do technology, you must maintain the ability to write code. Bill Gates and Zuckerberg must insist on writing code every day."

"What's the benefit?"

"Well..." Lu Qi paused, "It helps to improve thinking from the level of details and logic. When doing architectural design, we focus on the general direction and the big framework. But to convert the architecture into specific code, we need to analyze each

Improve every detail and make logical optimizations. This is a way to keep your mind young. In China, programmers who write code are called code farmers. When they get older, they have transformed, which may not be a good thing."

Zhou Buqi thought for a moment and nodded, "Is it because of culture? Japan is even more exaggerated. Programming and coding are directly reduced to blue-collar workers. White-collar workers all write documents, requirements, and product ideas. Specific implementation is outsourced.

To the technical team.”

"It's both a cultural reason and a technical reason. They don't pay attention to programming because their skills are too poor and they can't write any good code. Because they can't write world-class code, over time, a kind of older people who don't write code has formed.

long-term culture.”

"Isn't that true?"

Lu Qidao: "On the whole, young people are indeed better at programming, more active in thinking, and more efficient. However, older people also have advantages, that is, they have more experience and are more mature. Many of the world's top algorithms are not

It’s made by young people. For example, Google’s papers on distributed algorithms were all made by scientists in their fifties and sixties. They never disclosed the details of the code, and the whole world couldn’t compile it. This is the power of the old man.
To be continued...