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These days, when fresh graduates are looking for a job, their first choice is often a foreign company.

This is especially true in the IT industry.

Fresh graduates from Tsinghua University and Peking University rarely go to BAT to find a job. Even a giant company of Ali's level will be despised by students in Qingbei when they are recruiting at the school. As a result, when Ali is recruiting people, it is more inclined to second-tier key universities, such as college students such as BIT, Bike, Beihua, and Beijing Normal University.

Cheng Wei, who founded Didi in his previous life and joined Ziweixing in this life, is a graduate of Beihua.

For fresh graduates, there are probably three advantages to working in foreign companies such as Microsoft, Google, IBM, Oracle, and Amazon.

First, the salary is high and the benefits are good.

This is not said.

The main reason is that the labor cost in the United States is too high. Huaxia's salary standard is 300% lower than that of the United States. It is surprising to find that it is still far ahead of domestic companies.

The same employee, who can receive a salary of 20,000 yuan in China, is transferred to work in Silicon Valley, and his salary immediately becomes 10,000 US dollars, which is equivalent to a four-fold increase.

Second, have the technology and be able to learn.

Domestic Internet companies lack technical content, and the college students in Qingbei are all ambitious and want to become masters. This thing cannot rely on speculation, it must rely on real strength.

For young people who have just entered society, what is the most profitable investment? buy a house? stocks?

The answer is to invest in yourself.

Most of the college students in Qingbei have a very clear understanding. In terms of life choices, they can either go abroad for further study, or study for a doctoral degree, or choose a job with huge room for improvement, participate in higher-end projects, and learn higher-end technologies.

Domestic research institutes can also learn technology, and there is room for improvement. But the salary is too low, and the personnel relationship is too complicated. It is better to go to foreign companies like Microsoft and Google, where the salary is high, the personnel relationship is simple, and there is no need to flatter anyone, and the workplace relationship is more pure.

Third, the working environment is good and there is no overtime.

For example, at Microsoft Research, I go to work at 9:30 every day. I go to have a cup of coffee and eat breakfast first, and start working after 10 o'clock. At 11:30, it's time for lunch and then a lunch break for some entertainment. I came back from outside after 1:00, slept on the table for an hour or two, and woke up at 3:00 to continue working. 5:30 p.m., home from get off work.

The working time is eight hours a day, and the serious working time is only 4 hours.

Who doesn't yearn for such a job?

Like many domestic companies, they work overtime until late at night like an old scalper, and they look tired.

However, after a long time... it's different.

Working only 4 hours a day is such a waste of time!

Not fulfilling!

Ordinary people will think that such a job is very beautiful, relaxed and leisurely, and can also receive a high salary, which is better than being a civil servant. But for the most elite group, this job is too uninspiring!

There is no way to show personal life value at all, and there is no sense of accomplishment!

Job hopping appeared.

In March of this year, a project team of Microsoft Research that researched the direction of big data was poached by Baidu collectively, and more than 20 people resigned at one time.

Wages haven't risen.

They also have to work overtime day and night, and many people have to stay up all night, without sleep for several days and nights. This is the most serious overtime of Baidu, which can be called a cruel project team.

Even so, everyone went resolutely.

Because Baidu's "pyramid" plan is too attractive, once this project is completed, it will shock the world. The big reason why Google search is so powerful is that Google's big data processing technology is invincible in the world, and it can quickly and accurately retrieve search results from tens of billions of web pages.

Baidu is also going to do a similar project. Once it is completed, it will crush Yahoo, Microsoft and other Silicon Valley giants and become a parallel existence with Google.

Ideals have magical powers and are the most deceptive.

This is enough to make many people give up the favorable working conditions and resolutely go forward for an extremely difficult task.

This includes Wang Jian, executive vice president of Microsoft Research Asia.

But he increasingly felt that working at Microsoft was boring and lacked motivation. Especially seeing that the technology in Silicon Valley is changing with each passing day and developing rapidly.

The domestic Internet industry is still in the initial stage of "trade, industry and technology". He has a kind of worry and anxiety as a science man.

He wants to do something.

He wants to leave.

Especially in March, the big data project team of the research institute was poached by Baidu collectively, and the old colleagues acted like they were on the battlefield, boldly and vigorously to realize their grand ambitions.

This strengthened his mind even more!

But where do you leave your job?

Baidu is excluded first, because Baidu is already working on a super large project, and the financial resources and manpower are not enough to support the second one. penguin? It must also be ruled out that if you think about selling skins, making games, and harvesting young people every day, the corporate style is not enough.

So in his previous life, he had only one answer.

Alibaba in BAT.

Only a large company of this level can support a large national project.

Then, he recommended himself and met Boss Ma.

Boss Ma was still hesitant.

After a year, Taobao was a little bit overwhelmed by the huge traffic pressure, and couldn't find a way to solve it. The annual profit was not enough to purchase servers. The so-called "technology is not enough, hardware to make up". Conversely, if you want to solve equipment problems, you must seek high-end technology.

Then the two sides hit it off and started the Alibaba Cloud project.

The difference is that in this life, apart from BAT, the fourth largest giant in the domestic Internet industry——Ziweixing.

Coincidentally, Wang Jian and Ziweixing have maintained a cooperative relationship for the past two years. The data processing system of Friends.com was made by Wang Jian's team.

Even more coincidentally, not long ago, he received an invitation!

Zhang Yiming, the CEO of Friends.com, invited him to join Ziwei Star and lead a super big project!

What's even more coincidental is that the super-big project Zhang Yiming mentioned has exactly the same direction as the project he was looking for, and it is all cloud computing business.

However, Dr. Wang Jian did not accept it.

He felt so unreal.

Then, Zhang Yiming asked him out.

This time was different, Zhang Yiming came with another young man.

He knew this young man and had met him several times. He was Zhou Buqi, the big boss of Ziweixing.

"Dr. Wang Jian, long time no see."

The meeting place was in a coffee shop not far from Microsoft Research Institute. When Zhou Buqi saw the host appearing in a plaid shirt, he hurriedly got up and walked over to shake hands with a smile.

Wang Jian smiled and shook his head, "Every time I see Mr. Zhou, I feel too old."

Zhou Buqi said seriously: "Not old, not old, just right! With experience and a team, it is the time to play a huge role."

Dr. Wang Jian smiled without saying a word, was invited to sit down on the seat, and sighed softly.

Zhou Buqi ordered a cup of coffee, and said half-jokingly: "Doctor, you don't think I'm young and look down on me, do you?"

Wang Jian was taken aback, "How is it possible?"

Zhou Buqi said with a smile: "That's right, speaking of it, I'm only a junior this year. When you were a professor in a university, you brought out doctoral students who were in their thirties, right? I'm young and I have some social barriers." .”

Wang Jian hurriedly said: "Mr. Zhou, don't get me wrong. From the first time we met, I didn't look down on you. When I was a teacher at school, I knew that young people are very powerful. I have nothing but admiration for you. Ziweixing With such success, who dares to look down on you?"

"Then why did you reject him?"

Zhou Buqi pointed to Zhang Yiming.

"Well……"

Wang Jian's face was slightly stiff.

Zhou Buqi sighed: "Doctor, let me tell you the truth, about two years ago, I said internally that Ziweixing will do cloud computing, and it will definitely do cloud computing. But this is a big project, waiting for idlers to take over. I am sorry for such a difficult task. I have been looking for a suitable leader for the past two years, and in the end I still think you are the most suitable."

Wang Jian didn't quite believe it, "Two years ago?"

Zhang Yiming said with a smile: "I testify that it was indeed two years ago. At that time, Friends.com just started to cooperate with your team, and he asked me to observe you secretly to judge whether you are suitable for taking over this big project."

"Really two years ago?"

Wang Jian couldn't believe it.

Cloud computing is a new topic right now, and it is the most cutting-edge concept in the world, let alone two years ago. In 2005, Google was still publishing papers, and Microsoft was trying to build a software-as-a-service cloud platform, but internally it was blocked by many difficulties. Amazon is doing cloud, but it is considered an industry joke, and they feel that they are overthinking.

How dare a small company newly established in China have such an idea?

Ridiculous, right?

Zhou Buqi said in a deep voice: "Doctor, Ziweixing has the highest pursuit in terms of technology. Last year we did a distributed database project, which was rated as the most advanced key technology project in the country. But this is far from enough."

Zhang Yiming smiled and said, "By the way, our company is selling an open platform recently, have you heard?"

Wang Jian was amused, "Well, I heard that. I heard that the price is expensive?"

Zhang Yiming said: "It's not cheap. From source code to technical training, it can earn a total of 600 million yuan."

"How many?"

"600 million!"

"hiss!"

Wang Jian was stunned, his eyes widened suddenly.

Is money so easy to earn?

Zhou Buqi said: "I know, it costs money to do cloud computing. But Ziweixing is not short of money!"

Wang Jian smiled wryly, shook his head again and again, and said, "I'm really surprised that an open platform can be operated so successfully by you. But as a cloud computing platform...it's really not comparable to an open platform, not even yours. Distributed database projects are comparable. Database projects may cost hundreds of millions to complete. Cloud computing may require a huge amount of funds ranging from billions to tens of billions.”

Zhou Buqi smiled, "Doctor, as I said, Ziweixing is not short of money!"

Zhang Yiming was beside him, and said slowly: "Ziweixing just started its A round of financing, reached an agreement with Softbank, and raised 1 billion US dollars. There will be a second wave of follow-up investment, and it is going well. There will be about 5 That is to say, by June, in addition to the current liquidity, Ziwei Star will have a reserve fund of 1.5 billion U.S. dollars.”

1.5 billion US dollars, that is nearly 12 billion Huaxia coins!

Wang Jian opened his mouth wide, dumbfounded.

Zhou Buqi smiled confidently, "Doctor, let me reiterate that Ziweixing is not short of money. For the sake of technology, I am willing to go bankrupt! This is Ziweixing's mission and my pursuit!"