"Genius Girl" joins Huawei! At the age of 22, he won the World Programming Championship

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Recently, Huawei announced that Valeria Ryabchikova, who is only 22 years old, has joined Huawei's Nizhny Novgorod Research Institute in Russia as a senior engineer, engaged in research on intelligent computing application acceleration technology.

Just two months ago, Valeria and two teammates won the world championship in the 44th International Collegiate Programming Competition (ICPC) Programming Competition, known as the "Olympiad of Programming". Joining Valeria at Huawei is ICPC semi-finalist Ilya Klyustorv, 20, who will work in the fields of algorithms and machine learning.

The reporter noted that in the Huawei Voice community, some employees commented that the 22-year-old programming champion employee was not a member of Huawei's "genius teenager" program. On social media, some netizens commented: "The afterlife is terrible, the genius girl is too powerful!" Some netizens also said: "I want to know how much the annual salary is." ”

It is understood that Huawei's "Genius Youth" plan is a project launched by Huawei founder and president Ren Zhengfei in 2019 to attract top talents with top challenges and top salaries.

Two "programming geniuses" join Huawei

A few days ago, the Huawei Voice community released news that 22-year-old Valeria Ryabuchkova joined huawei's Nizhny Novgorod Institute in Russia to engage in research on intelligent computing application acceleration technology.

On October 6, 2021, Valeria Ryabukzkova of Nizhny Novgorod State University in Russia and two of her teammates lifted the ICPC World Championship trophy.

Photo caption: The Nizhny Novgorod State University team won the 44th ICPC World Finals in 2021, with Valeria in the front row third from left. Source: Huawei Voices Community

It is reported that Valeria graduated from the Institute of Mathematical Machinery of Information Science of Nizhny Novgorod State University. She has been participating in programming competitions since grade 10. After entering the university, she was discovered by Coach Shmelev Alexey and invited her to join her own ICPC training class.

Shmelev Alexey joined Huawei's Nizhny Novgorod Institute in August 2021. Influenced by him, Valeria contacted Huawei during her university years and officially joined the Nizhny Novgorod Institute on December 21, 2021, engaged in research on intelligent computing application acceleration technology.

According to Huawei, Valeria joined Huawei on the same day as a young ICPC semifinal winner, Ilya Hlyustorv. Iria, 20, a student at Nizhny Novgorod State University and her new teammate, has made it to the 45th ICPC Regional Semifinals and will compete in the World Finals in Dhaka, Bangladesh, in November 2022.

Focus on attracting the best talent from around the world

Huawei has always attached great importance to the introduction of talents. In August 2021, Ren Zhengfei said in the 2022 excellent talent acquisition and "high nose" acquisition work report that Huawei should open its mind, emancipate its mind, and dare to attract the best talents in the world.

Ren Zhengfei said that Huawei's recruitment has been improving in recent years, "insisting on scooping the oil to the top in China." In the past two years, we have increased the recruitment of overseas students, and now we must pay attention to the acquisition of "high nose" talents and give overseas research institutes more budgets. Huawei wants to attract outstanding talents from all over the world who have studied or worked in the United States and Europe to work in China. Open roads in every mountain, build bridges in water, and build a good Shanghai Dianshan Lake International Talent Community.

Ren Zhengfei said that Huawei should set up a senior talent salary department, follow the law of talent market competition, break the balance of thinking, and give competitive salaries to top talents. Interview assessment is to find excellent talents, do not dogmatic, do not take a standard to screen. The recruitment of fresh graduates in 2022 continues to adhere to most of the supplementary research and development, maintains 10% of the output, and enriches the personnel to sales services, supply chain and other positions.

In its 2020 annual report, Huawei said that it insists on investing more than 10% of its sales revenue in research and development every year, especially to strengthen basic research and theoretical breakthroughs, and continue to invest strongly in technological innovation and invention, so as to accumulate and achieve industrial progress and development. In 2020, Huawei's R&D expenditure was 141.893 billion yuan.

It is understood that in 2021, Huawei's R&D investment in various fields may exceed 130 billion yuan.

Editor: Zheng Yashuo

Photo editor: Yin Jian