On the night of the launch, Lu Nan, who had taken a train from Shenzhen to Beijing alone, had already arrived several days ago.

These days, he has been wanting to find his college girlfriend Ruan Yun, but after nearly forty hours of driving, his courage has faded a lot. This strange city has filled him with anxiety and lack of confidence.

During the few days he came to Beijing, Lu Nan had been staying in a small hotel near Zhongguancun. He would stroll around the major office buildings in Zhongguancun during the day and go back to sleep at night. He had no idea what he wanted to do, but he thought that he might meet Ruan Yun by chance in Zhongguancun.

He actually didn't know where Ruan Yun worked, and was too embarrassed to ask his old classmate. He just thought that since Ruan Yun, like him, studied computer science, it was more likely that she would work near Zhongguancun. So on the one hand, he was looking forward to meeting her by chance, but on the other hand, he wanted to leave the decision of meeting to God. If God favored him, perhaps he would run into her by chance at some intersection in Zhongguancun by turning around.

After wandering around Zhongguancun for several days, Lu Nan still failed to achieve his wish. Among the alumni he knew from Shanghai Jiaotong University, at least dozens of them were working in Beijing, but he didn't meet any of them in the past few days.

On this weekend, Lu Nan temporarily gave up going to Zhongguancun, found an Internet cafe, and logged into his PP account.

The pp account has not been logged in for several days, but what surprised Lu Nan was that from the moment he set out to now, he had received all the group chat messages without missing a single one, totaling more than 7,000 messages.

Lu Nan was really impressed. What was there to talk about? They chatted over 7,000 times in one go!

After sighing, Lu Nan was also full of admiration for pp.

Apart from anything else, the pp group has just been created and its activity is so high. Logically, when any group is chatting, half of the people are offline. That is to say, when user A sends a message in the group chat, Haobo Technology has to push this message to all the online people in the group, and at the same time, it has to archive the data for all offline users on the server. This is much more difficult than one-to-one processing of offline information.

From this point of view, the amount of offline messages that Haobo Technology has to handle in a day is estimated to be more than a hundred times that of QQ at its peak. It is simply abnormally powerful.

There were more than 7,000 group chat records, and Lu Nan originally wanted to close them directly, but after a little hesitation, he moved the mouse from the close option to the message manager.

pp's current message manager is very smart. It can select dates and supports chat history searches. The first keyword he searched for in the group chat history was: Ruan Yun.

Although Ruan Yun is not his classmate, he really hopes that classmates who work with her can mention her in group chats.

After searching, a message with the keyword popped up quickly. It was indeed sent by Ding Gang: "Oh, I really envy Ruan Yun. She got an offer from Haobo Technology today. It's a development position with P7 salary."

Lu Nan's eyes lit up, and he quickly clicked the "View previous and next messages" button next to it, and immediately pulled up the chat records before and after this sentence. Lu Nan couldn't help but sigh: "How can the product manager of Haobo Technology develop so many surprising features..."

It turned out that the topic was that everyone in the group was discussing salaries. Ding Gang complained that he could only earn 3,500 yuan a month, and then he said that he envied Ruan Yun.

Afterwards, a large group of people in the group expressed their admiration and yearning, and then someone asked: "What does Haobo Technology's P7 mean?"

Ding Gang said: "There are two dimensions of employee levels within Haobo Technology, one is the p-sequence and the other is the m-sequence. The p-sequence means professional, which is a technical position; the m-sequence means management, which is a management position. Each sequence is from 1 to 10. If you are p7, you are already a technical expert, with a monthly salary of !"

When seeing this, Lu Nan's face flushed. Before he left Tencent, his monthly salary was 8,000, which he thought was quite high. Compared with Ruan Yun's annual salary of 150,000, it was more than half less. Anyone who can earn 13,000 a month in Beijing now is simply the white-collar among white-collar workers.

Looking down, Ding Gang said: "And Haobo Technology guarantees 14 salaries every year!"

"What does 14th salary mean?"

“That means at least 14 months’ salary every year!”

"My grass..."

Some people asked: "Why did she get such a high level?"

Ding Gang said: "She has the ability. She led our company to develop a hospital outpatient registration and consultation program. We sold more than 20 sets this year, each for 100,000 yuan."

"Ah! She's sold more than 20 units before the halfway point this year. How much commission should your company give her?"

Ding Gang said: "This is what makes me sick. We agreed to give her 5% of sales as a reward, which is about 5 yuan. But our boss went back on his word and said that the original promise was % of net profit. He asked the finance department to calculate and remove various costs. Guess how much the net profit was?"

A bunch of people asked below: "How much?"

Ding Gang said: "Only 300,000! Even the shared office space for her and her team, computer depreciation, and water and electricity network costs were taken into account. In the end, she could only get 6,000 yuan in commission."

"How fucking shameless!" The group was filled with curses.

Ding Gang also said: "Yes, so she went to interview at Haobo Technology, and after getting the offer, she asked to resign from our company, but our boss was too shameless and forced her to resign for a month, so she can only join Haobo Technology next month."

When Lu Nan saw this, he suddenly had an idea - apply for a job at Haobo Technology! No matter what, he had to get in before Ruan Yun did! He had a month, if it worked, he would wait patiently for her at Haobo Technology, if not...

Lu Nan suddenly felt unconfident again.

He has been working in computer industry for a long time and has excellent technical skills, but his psychological quality is average. He is a contradictory person with both self-confidence and arrogance. He has no confidence that he can be employed by Haobo Technology, but for him, there is no other way to choose now, so he can only send his resume to the email address of Haobo Technology HR.

……

It was already May and the temperature in Beijing had suddenly reached 30 degrees.

In line with the weather, pp is continuing to make great strides in the field of instant messaging.

The number of registered users has exceeded 700 million, and the maximum number of concurrent online users has exceeded million, more than double the number at QQ's peak.

In contrast, QQ's current maximum number of concurrent online users has dropped from over three million to below one million, which is almost 30% of its peak period. Its revenue for the whole of April was also very ugly. All advertising was stopped, and it had to pay liquidated damages, and its value-added income also came to a standstill.

Now, the atmosphere for the entire Tencent is like wartime. Although many positions are close to being shut down, Mr. Ma still dare not lay off employees. At the critical moment, he knows that he cannot disrupt the morale of the troops.

Now the entire QQ team has been working at a high workload, and the top management has made up their mind to cut off all ties. The maintenance and development of Tieba and QQ Fishery have been completely stopped. Anyway, these two almost dead products don't have many users, so they might as well concentrate all the technical resources on developing new products.

The technical team was divided into two groups, one group focused on developing the new version of QQ, and the other group focused on developing the QQ game hall. Mr. Ma's requirements for the new version of QQ are: the UI design and user experience should be aligned with Haobo Technology. At the same time, QQ group and cartoon show functions are actively promoted as the main direction. As for the QQ hall, he requires it to be online before mid-June, and it must be equipped with at least eight popular chess and card games.

If they were just developing the hall, there might be enough time, but if they were also developing games, that would be a bit beyond reality. However, Mr. Ma's request did not leave any room for bargaining. He just wanted to push the team forward as he did not have much time to wait.

After the finance department informed him of the estimated operating costs for May, he immediately felt uneasy. The tens of millions on the books would not last long, and he couldn't help but be anxious.

At present, the company's monthly labor expenses are about 2 million, and office costs are about 600,000, which are just small money. The company currently hosts thousands of servers across the country. The hosting fees, machine fees, and bandwidth fees alone are as high as several million yuan. With this calculation, the monthly expenses are tens of millions, and the money on the books can't last long.

Zhou Hao had also been wondering what Tencent was planning on its products, but he never expected that he and Mr. Ma had clashed over this matter.

In early May, Zhou Hao experienced the current PP game hall at the technical center of Haobo Technology. According to Zhou Hao's requirements, the design of the PP game hall is also very grand. The logic of the game hall is not much different from that of Lianzhong. After clicking to log in, you will enter a game selection interface. After selecting a game, choose the corresponding room, and then enter the lobby interface full of game tables. Users can quickly match a game here, or choose a table to sit down and participate in the game.

After the character sits down and clicks ready, it enters the waiting phase. If everyone is present and everyone clicks ready, the game will start automatically, and a special game window will pop up.

The gaming experience is very good, both the visual and auditory aspects are made with great care. Zhou Hao even tried out the character dialogues, which were more interesting than the QQ games in his previous life.

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