[Feng Qitang original | Do not compile or pass on, have a source and evidence, share the entrepreneurial legend of business tycoons, and interpret management wisdom. 】
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Tian Tao and Wu Chunbo wrote "Will Huawei be the next to fall", Tian Tao wrote "Huawei Interview", Wu Chunbo wrote "Huawei Has No Secrets", Lin Chaohua wrote "The Biography of Ren Zhengfei", and Wang Yukun wrote "Suffering Hero Ren Zhengfei".
For a long time, among Huawei's middle and senior executives, there are very few foreign companies airborne troops.
After all, in the perception of many foreign employees, Huawei's aura of stress, hard work, lack of human care, no life, mandatory clock-in, simple and crude management, elimination of the last position, and the focus on work-life balance and best employer are simply worlds apart.
However, there are exceptions.
01
IBM middle-aged man joins Huawei, 11 p.m
Angry supervisor calls: Please respect my life
Because of the temptation of Huawei's "dividend per share of 2.98 yuan this year, with an annual income of more than 60%" (of course, this is one of the key factors), a middle-aged IBM man who has been working in foreign companies for more than ten years joined Huawei at the age of 40.
However, the former middle-aged IBM man, who is accustomed to separating work and life from foreign companies, is extremely uncomfortable with Huawei's culture of struggle.
When the middle-aged man was in his former employer, he had actually come into contact with Huawei.
In an emergency, the customer temporarily arranged a task, and the middle-aged man led his team to complete a solution with Huawei.
At 23 o'clock in the middle of the night, the middle-aged man who was still fighting found that the customer had already gone back to rest.
The middle-aged man saw that his brothers who were working overtime were already exhausted (how can foreign companies withstand overtime and stay up late), so he said hello to the Huawei team, "We will continue tomorrow", and took the team back to rest.
The next day, the customer is accountable, why didn't the plan come out?
The person in charge of Huawei looked at the middle-aged IBM man: "The part we are responsible for has been completed, and I stayed up all night." ”
After hearing this, the customer looked at the middle-aged man, and although he didn't say anything, he was already dissatisfied in his heart.
At that time, I sighed, this is Huawei, and it is really wolf-like and efficient.
A few years later, the middle-aged man joined Huawei by himself.
Whether it is in IBM or HP, the middle-aged man has never received a work call from the company in the middle of the night, but he has joined Huawei:
At 11 o'clock in the evening, the front line has just gone to work!
Today, Sunday, the front line has just come to work!
In the first few days, the middle-aged man angrily tried to tell someone who called in the middle of a Sunday night: "This is my personal time, please respect my life!"
However, the supervisor of the middle-aged male supervisor was embarrassed to call again......
Not only is there no boundary between work and life, but also such as mandatory clock-in, business trip accommodation standards, and no working hours when taking a plane, etc., these extreme discomfort and pain caused by differences in corporate culture have made IBM middle-aged men last for a long time, so that there is always a sentence in the annual performance self-evaluation for the first three years: "We need to further learn and adapt to Huawei's culture and accelerate integration." ”
In fact, this pain is especially prominent in almost all social recruitment employees, especially those who have experience in foreign companies. As a result, a large proportion of these employees will be lost in the first and third years after joining Huawei.
However, the middle-aged man from IBM persevered.
02
Because of feelings
Some people say that men from foreign companies can stay at Huawei, of course, because of salary.
That's right, the salary given by Huawei is indeed 3 times that of the middle-aged man before IBM.
However, when I was at IBM, it was 8 hours a day, and when I joined Huawei, I was on call 24 hours a day, and the time paid was 3 times!
Many years later, the middle-aged man found the real reason why he stayed, because in Huawei, there is an atmosphere and feelings that foreign companies do not have.
Feelings and atmosphere, that is a kind of spiritual pursuit, spiritual driven.
The middle-aged man used one of his own personal experiences to confirm this feeling.
After joining Huawei, the middle-aged man has traveled to the poorest countries in the world, where the IT infrastructure is extremely backward.
The middle-aged man learned that a set of OA software that can be sold for up to 500,000 yuan in China was sold by a company for 5 million US dollars here!
When the middle-aged man told this as a joke to his Huawei colleagues, he found that Huawei's colleagues were all smiling and looking at him.
The middle-aged man instantly woke up to the fact that 30 years ago, those companies sold us China's telecommunications equipment was super expensive, IT equipment was super expensive, application software was super expensive, medical equipment was super expensive, industrial machine tools were super expensive, and everything they sold to us was super expensive......
At that moment, the middle-aged man really understood the meaning of Huawei's existence.
Feelings still:
At the Huawei staff meeting, all employees stood up and sang "Chinese Men";
At Huawei's exhibition in Beijing, for the first time, the red flag of "Chinese's own GSM" was hung.
Huawei has survived years of suppression by major countries, and has its own hardware base chip, software base HarmonyOS operating system, as well as its own database and EDA software.
……
The feelings are still the ordinary but legendary stories of those old Huawei:
To build a base station somewhere in Africa, Huawei people climbed the tower dozens of meters high, and just wanted to brag about it.
In order to return to Libya to restore the network, Huawei employees traveled all the way to many countries, and local employees participated in the revolution and said that they would protect Huawei people from the airport VIP.
In order to meet a customer, Huawei people can be dead guards for three months;
The Taliban sent an email to Huawei, complaining about the poor quality of the network and asking for a quick fix
……
Each of these piles is full of the sweat and tears, laughter and laughter of countless Huawei people.
Without the hard work of Huawei people around the world, how could we be the global leader today?
03
A wishing card for an overseas guy
Huawei can bring together countless talents and work hard for more than ten or twenty years, of course, not only because the boss will share money and power.
"An enterprise cannot attract people by relying on money, and the desire for money can never be filled; Mr. Ren said.
At Huawei, there is an honor department, which organizes an infectious awards ceremony every year.
At the Huawei Awards Conference, the awards were sent from morning to night, and the awards were sent until I was dizzy, and my hands were sore when I got the awards, and I applauded until my hands hurt.
According to Huawei insiders, at least 80% of them have won awards, such as the "Collective Resignation Award of the Marketing Department", "Waiting Until the Mountain Flowers Blooms Award", "Big Pot Rice Award", "Iron Horseshoe Award", "Bad Plane Award", "Take-off from Zero Award", "Rising Star Award", "Blue Blood Ten Outstanding Awards"......
Because, in Ren Zhengfei's mind, Huawei employees are heroes, and everyone should wear a big red flower.
Huawei's care for the "heroes" is definitely far ahead.
A Huawei guy who has been working overseas for many years made a wish when he celebrated his birthday overseas to take his parents from the mountains of Guizhou to Shenzhen, see the Huawei he works for, and see the modern metropolis.
Just before the guy was about to return to China, Huawei's headquarters got the guy's wishing card from overseas Huawei, and immediately took action, rushing from Shenzhen to the mountains of Guizhou, bringing a lot of gifts to visit the guy's parents.
Then, Huawei's headquarters took the young man's parents from the mountains to Shenzhen, visited the Huawei base, felt Huawei, and tasted various delicacies at the Huawei base.
When the guy learned about it, he burst into tears.
After working hard overseas for several years, earning enough money and rising in position, what is still lacking at this time? Of course, it is a kind of spiritual recognition and satisfaction.
This is also a kind of affection for Huawei's strivers.
Ren Zhengfei said that Huawei is "spiritual civilization drives material civilization", "consolidate spiritual civilization with material civilization, and never let Lei Feng suffer".
Although Huawei works overtime, no Huawei employee has ever said that Huawei is not humane, and even the veteran employees who came out of Huawei have spontaneously organized the establishment of the "Former Huawei Association" and "Huayou Association" to commemorate and support the life of struggle in Huawei.
In a word, Huawei "does not let the strivers suffer", in Huawei, struggle is a feeling!
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