01, five times the salary, and then recruit "genius teenagers"
On May 19, Huawei Recruitment released a message saying that it will start the recruitment of "talented teenagers" again for the world, as long as you have the ability and willingness to challenge world-class problems, and want to drag the world forward, you can apply, regardless of academic qualifications and schools. After joining the company, Huawei will not only provide these "talented young people" with world-class challenges, mentors, global platforms and resources, but also pay more than five times the market level.
As soon as the incident came out, it immediately triggered the "jealousy" of many netizens", "Five times the market salary makes me yearn, I can't wait to be a genius", "It's good, so that people without education and ability also have opportunities, it is recommended to promote", "To a large extent, this is also screening and supporting talents for the country, some of the top domestic graduates will choose to go abroad for various reasons, we need more and more technology companies to stand up and retain talents. ”
In addition, there is a recommendation mechanism for "talented teenagers" in Huawei's official micro account, saying that if the recommended candidate passes the interview and hiring decision, the recommender will receive the "genius youth recommendation officer" trophy and a Huawei watch, and if the recommended candidate is successfully hired, the recommender will get a Huawei flagship mobile phone.
Huawei's "Genius Youth" program is actually a "challenge" launched by Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei to attract top global talents. In June 2019, Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei signed an internal document proposing the recruitment plan for "talented teenagers" for the first time. However, according to Ren Zhengfei, "genius boy" is mainly used for the grading and salary of entry, and after entering Huawei, this title is gone.
According to the information at that time, Huawei's "genius boy" salary was divided into three levels, the highest grade was 1.82 million ~ 2.01 million yuan, the second level was 1.405 million ~ 1.565 million yuan, and the third level was 896,000 ~ 1.008 million yuan. According to the plan, Huawei will recruit 20~30 "talented teenagers" from all over the world in 2019, and 200~300 more in the following year. Finally, in 2020~2021, Huawei recruited about 26,000 fresh graduates, of whom more than 300 became "talented teenagers". In 2022, this number can also reach hundreds.
In fact, Huawei's recruitment of "talented teenagers" has become a common practice.
In April 2022, Huawei Recruitment also released similar information, but the content of the two releases was slightly different, last year's initial slogan was "Break the sky upwards, take root downward", and the first sentence of this year's recruitment slogan was changed to "expand the boundaries of theory with endless search, and light up engineering innovation with the spark of wisdom", and the pattern seems to have become larger.
In addition, Huawei's recruitment information last year, mentioned that the required talents mainly include mathematics, computers, physics, materials, chips, intelligent manufacturing, chemistry and other fields, but this year in mathematics, physics, chemistry, materials, computers, intelligent manufacturing and other related fields, while deleting "chips", adding "chemistry" field.
Of course, talent will be mobile, hundreds of "genius teenagers" will come to Huawei every year, and some people will choose to leave.
For the incident at the end of last year, when the "genius boy" Zhihuijun left Huawei, Ren Zhengfei gave the explanation, "We can't monopolize talents, employees want to go out to start a business or go to other companies, people make the best of their talents, play their value, and be useful to the country." In addition, we also have reflections on the talent mechanism, some people do not use what they are best at, do not play a role, which is equivalent to wasting their youth. ”
02. The sharp decline in net profit has not been a loss in research and development
In 2022, Huawei's sales revenue increased slightly by 0.9% to CNY 642.3 billion, of which revenue from carrier business areas reached CNY 284 billion, enterprise revenue was CNY 133.2 billion, and terminal revenue was CNY 214.5 billion. However, Huawei's net profit was only 35.6 billion yuan, a decrease of 78.1 billion yuan or 69% compared with 113.7 billion yuan in the previous year, becoming the lowest in the past five years, and this figure was 59.3 billion yuan, 62.7 billion yuan and 64.6 billion yuan in 2018~2020, respectively.
Huawei's net profit fell sharply, not only because of the 8% decrease in gross margin, but also related to a series of increases in its expenses.
In 2022, Huawei's sales and management expenses increased by 5% year-on-year to nearly 110 billion yuan, while R&D expenses also increased by 13% year-on-year, from 142.7 billion yuan in the previous year to 161.5 billion yuan, accounting for 25% of the annual revenue, and the cumulative R&D expenditure invested in the past ten years was close to 1 trillion yuan. It can be said that even in the case of weak revenue growth, Huawei's investment in research and development has not decreased but increased.
It is worth mentioning that Huawei's smart car business, which has placed high hopes on in recent years, seems to have not yet ushered in a harvest moment. In 2022, Huawei disclosed for the first time that the revenue of the smart car solution business was 2.1 billion yuan, but it only accounted for 0.3% of the total revenue, and since the establishment of the smart car solution BU, the cumulative investment has reached 3 billion US dollars, or about 21 billion yuan.
At the launch of the 2022 annual report, Xu Zhijun, who is the rotating chairman of Huawei, once said, "2023 is a key year for Huawei's survival and development. Today's Huawei is like plum blossoms, and plum blossoms are fragrant because they have undergone severe cold tempering." Under the heavy money, Huawei, which has a steady stream of "genius boys" blessings, may no longer be far away from spring.
(Author|Feng Chenchen, Editor|Liu Xiaoying)