Currently, Tencent only has dozens of core employees and tens of millions of funds on the books. No one has a specific job now. Everyone brainstorms in the conference room every day when they come to the company to discuss various product ideas.

The resigned employees have also started looking for new jobs, but the biggest problem they face is that there are too few Internet companies in Shenzhen and the demand for talent in the software development field is also very small. This is completely incomparable with Beijing. In the future, Beijing will continue to increase its advantages in the Internet field and continue to distance itself from other cities.

Hundreds of people have entered the Internet talent market, but most of them have failed time and again, either because they cannot find a suitable company or because there are no suitable positions. A senior engineer who specializes in instant messaging software development has a monthly salary of more than 10,000 yuan at Tencent, but now it is difficult to find a job that pays even 3,000 yuan, despite many years of work experience.

Right now, the average salary in Shenzhen's IT industry is less than two thousand. These senior engineers, who used to be considered gold-collar workers, now have a hard time getting white-collar treatment.

On the one hand, there are no corresponding companies in Shenzhen, so there are no corresponding positions. On the other hand, their work experience at Tencent can no longer add points to them, and may even deduct points from them.

A month ago, Tencent was still a star company in Shenzhen's Internet industry. Not only its peers knew about it, but even ordinary Shenzhen citizens knew that the nationwide popular QQ was owned by this Shenzhen-based company. Tencent employees were very successful at that time, but now, QQ has completely declined and even issued an announcement to stop maintenance, which is equivalent to a critically ill patient giving up treatment and just waiting to die.

As defeated generals, they were laid off by the company. When they looked for jobs again, they were not looked up to but despised.

"With all your experience, how come you couldn't bring QQ back to life?"

"Even Tencent has given up on instant messaging, so we won't make instant messaging software. Besides, if you are really good at instant messaging, why did Tencent give up QQ?"

"We are currently only looking for a system maintenance position. The monthly salary for the probation period is 1,800 yuan. If you are interested, please leave your resume. We will review it and give you a phone interview."

Conversations like these happen every day in this city.

Before Lu Nan got off work, the administration had booked flights for him and Gao Sihui for tomorrow morning. After returning home, with the app on his computer, Lu Nan simply packed his luggage and then called each of his former subordinates.

After making some phone calls one by one, Lu Nan discovered that all six of his subordinates in his team had been laid off. However, their team was better off, as they were responsible for product maintenance, and any Internet software required maintenance. Therefore, half of them found companies of interest in a very short period of time. Although finding a new job seemed easy, they faced the biggest problem: a precipitous drop in their salary.

When Lu Nan left Tencent, his monthly salary was 8000 yuan, and most of his subordinates earned between 2000 and 5000 yuan. Tencent's initial treatment was quite good, and technical talents could basically get more than 2000 yuan when they joined. With the increase of years of work, the improvement of the company's business, and personal work performance, they had 2-3 salary increase opportunities every year. However, when they started looking for a new job, they found that the salary offered by the intended companies was generally 3% lower than that of Tencent.

A technician with three years of work experience and a monthly salary of 5 yuan will basically only be offered 3000 yuan by the new company, and there is also a minimum probation period of two months, during which the salary is only 2400% of the salary. In other words, in the first two months, he can only get a monthly salary of yuan, which is more than half less.

After Lu Nan learned about their situation, he felt sorry for them. Now everyone has to bow to life, and they don’t even have the chance to stay where they are and have to go back to the same salary they had one or two years ago. Lu Nan believed that if Haobo Technology gave them a salary no lower than that at Tencent, they would definitely be willing to come to Beijing.

On the phone, Lu Nan did not tell them the truth. He only told them that he would be back to Shenzhen on a business trip tomorrow and that they could get together when they had time.

When his former subordinates heard this, they were very excited and rushed to welcome him. Lu Nan decided to use them as a breakthrough point first. After convincing them, he would go on to convince others. He would stay in Shenzhen for a week and meet with all the technical and operational people laid off by Tencent during this week. Whether he could poach them would depend on how Gao Sihui communicated with them.

After packing up his things, the computer pp information notification suddenly kept ringing. Lu Nan went to the computer and took a look. It turned out that a former Tencent employee who was laid off had created a group of former Tencent training employees on the pp, and a fellow villager who used to work in the development department of Tencent training also pulled him in.

At present, there are more than 40 people in the group, more than 80% of them are online, and there are constant messages in the group. The group owner is an older brother in the technical department who is relatively popular. He appeals to everyone in the group to try to bring in former Tengxun employees who have also been laid off, or employees who have left Tengxun. Everyone keeps communicating in the group and exchanges information with each other. If there is a good opportunity, they can also share it.

Lu Nan was delighted. "The PP group is indeed a good product. It is so convenient. If there is no PP, how can we have such a free and casual group chat that is completely isolated from outsiders by relying on QQ? Besides, with this group, my mission to Shenzhen this time will be much easier."

Lu Nan couldn't help but ask everyone: "How are you doing now? Is there still a good opportunity in Shencheng?"

"Where are the good opportunities?" said a colleague in the development department. "I've been running around these past few days. There are quite a few companies that need software development, but the salaries they offer are too low. They also pick on me, saying that I've only been working in the instant messaging field in recent years and am actually a newcomer in other areas..."

"Damn it! Today a software development company offered me 2,000 yuan a month, and the probation period is still half a year! I almost got into a fight with them right there and then. If someone hadn't stopped me, I would have really wanted to have a fight with them!"

"You are impulsive. You shouldn't have said any more words to them today. You should just leave. Look at me. I don't even bother to pay attention to those idiots!"

At this time, the fellow villager who invited Lu Nan to join the group asked Lu Nan: "Anan, how are you doing in Beijing?"

Lu Nan said: "It's good. After coming here, I found that Beijing is more suitable for me than Shenzhen."

The fellow asked him: "What is more suitable for you? Tell me."

Lu Nan said: "I feel that Beijing is friendlier than Shenzhen, and there are more options."

Someone said in the group: "Shenzhen feels more friendly and open. Isn't it said that once you come here, you are a Shenzhener?"

Lu Nan smiled and said, "I used to think so, but after coming to Beijing and comparing the populations of the two cities, I found that it was not the case. In 2001, Shenzhen had only 132 million locals, but the permanent population was over 700 million. Everyone thought that it was difficult to obtain a household registration in Yanjing, and there were many restrictions on external registration. However, Beijing now has a permanent population of over 1300 million and a registered population of 1100 million."

Someone in the group immediately said, "So many? The proportion of local people in Shenzhen is so small!"

Lu Nan said, "Yes, I also thought the data was wrong at first. Shenzhen is so open that it should have attracted a lot of talents from other places, but the data doesn't lie. Among the permanent residents in Shenzhen, the proportion of registered permanent residents is less than 20%."

The fellow villager asked him again: "How is the environment in Beijing?"

Lu Nan said, "I like it very much. The layout of Beijing is very straight, and most of the roads run due south, due north, due east, and due west. When you go out, you will never be confused about the directions."

Someone asked Lu Nan: "How much does Anan earn in Beijing?"

Lu Nan said: "The probation period is 9000, and after becoming a regular employee, you should be promoted to the next level. You need to discuss with HR how much you can get. The salary for the next level is 1-1."

Many people in the group sighed: "That's great! You are smart and went to Beijing without hesitation. Otherwise, if you waited until QQ stopped maintenance before looking for a job, you would probably be looked down upon like us."

Lu Nan said tentatively: "Actually, you can also consider coming to Beijing. There are many opportunities here, and the salary is not less than that of Tencent."

Some people in the group said that they are not so confident now, some said it is too troublesome to find a job in Beijing and the future is unknown, and some felt that Beijing is too far away and they are afraid they will not be able to adapt if they go there blindly.

At this time, a group of people joined the group one after another, one of whom was Xu Bin, the deputy technical director of the QQ project team. As a technical expert trained by Zhang Tianyu, the CTO of Tencent, the two were previously the technical director and deputy director of the QQ project team respectively. Director Xu Zhongwenliang was Zhang Tianyu's confidant, so he was kept. Deputy Director Xu Bin had a conflict of ability and expertise with Zhong Wenliang, and did not have as good a relationship as Zhong Wenliang and Zhang Tianyu, so he became the highest-level employee laid off by Tencent this time.

As soon as he came in, everyone took the initiative to greet him. When he was at Tencent, he was very close to the employees and fought for their interests. On the other hand, he spared no effort to train his subordinates, so he was very popular.

After everyone greeted him one after another, Xu Bin sent a message: "Thank you everyone! I joined the group today mainly to share some news with you. The HR director of Sina in Beijing contacted me. They are currently developing an instant messaging product and want to recruit our team."

When Lu Nan saw this message, his heart skipped a beat. It was really like a Cheng Yaojin showing up out of nowhere. QQ had given up, and Sina was still trying to snatch people from Haobo Technology?

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