From software engineers to it headhunting: my experiences and feelings

After three years of work as a communication software engineer, I didn't want to continue on the technology road, but I didn't want to go on a business trip, eat, drink, or entertain myself. I made a headhunter at a friend's suggestion, headhunting is a mysterious profession in the eyes of many people. Many friends may not know how they were suddenly found by the headhunting staff. After a very professional greeting and courtesy, start your job description. If you are not planning to change jobs this year and are very busy, it may be annoying to receive such a call. However, if you are planning to change jobs, at this time, when you hear the headhunting call, you will usually politely avoid your boss and communicate with the headhunting.
  
First of all, the headhunting industry charges fees unilaterally. You will not be charged for the individual, but for the company. The average person may ask, why do companies send news on recruitment websites instead of asking them to ask the Headhunting companies to help them find candidates? In fact, this is very simple, publishing a message on a website is also charged. In this way, the company may collect a large number of resumes, but there are very few valuable resumes. Especially for those very senior positions, you have seen several managers, or GE's role can go to 51job, or chinacili.com. In addition, many companies may not have a strong motivation to change jobs. Only when they have a very attractive position, they will think about it. In addition, some jobs are hard to understand, not some simple programming experience. They need a lot of additional Additional Conditions to be understood by headers.
Therefore, the headhunting work can be briefly described as: finding the right talent and filtering out resumes. In some cases, we even need to have a first-talk phone interview with the candidates.
  
The customers of headhunting companies are generally foreign companies and domestic famous enterprises. Of course, there are also some small companies. However, from the perspective of the development of a headhunting company, they are more willing to use cases for well-known enterprises, first of all, they have the awareness of cooperating with headhunters to find talent and can afford to pay for it. Headhunting companies also like to establish long-term partnerships with these large companies. For example, Cisco, EMC, Shanda, and Microsoft are long-term customers of our company.
I don't want to talk too much about the operation charge management of headhunting companies. Here I want to talk about the recuit mechanism of large companies.
When a customer gives us a position, we first analyze the position, which company we need to dig for, like the positions of internationally renowned large enterprises, we generally do not look for people from small companies, like these big companies, they are generally very jealous. The resumes we push up, the unnamed companies do not even look at their resumes, even if their experience matches their positions. They would rather offer the talent of an equivalent competitor, rather than offer the talent of a company that is just as close as possible.
In addition, there is a question about the matching degree of a job. These large companies pay special attention to experience, because they need to determine the level based on the years you have worked for. This is a standard for giving you an offer, generally, these large companies have almost the same salary standards in the industry. Generally, new companies give you an offer, which will refer to your previous company's salary for a 20%-40% increase, it is generally difficult to increase to 50%.
I am mainly engaged in technical positions, including development, testing, and mananger jobs, so I still have some experience in this field. Now I will list some of my company information:
Cisco (Shanghai Cisco) is a drag-and-drop company, but recently its business in the Asia Pacific region has been expanding rapidly. It is estimated that Alcatel and Lucent have been exploring almost the same companies for two years, of course, are also their opponents. However,they are relatively inferior in English, so it is not easy to pass English, and  shares can also retain many people, people are all lazy state-owned enterprises, and headhunting companies do not like to look for them. Cisco certainly also like intel and almost all types of IBM talents, in short, the most prefer is the background of a large foreign company, Cisco engineers are divided into several levels, 12, 8, 6, 4 depending on your working life, of course, the salary level is different, cisco's overall salary is good. Of course, it depends on your ability and background. Therefore, you cannot judge it subjectively. I heard that Cisco's salary is also average.
In terms of software, most Cisco jobs are embedded development jobs, and most of the systems are Linux and QNX. Unlike and Alcatel, they all use VxWorks, in addition, it is very strong's C/C ++ capabilities. Generally, the software positions of juion and senior are basically upper-layer application software and bottom-layer driver.
EMC, the boss of the storage industry, may not know much about this company, but I'm sure the best female secretary in history knows it. In fact, EMC has a large number of hardware services, and software requirements have also expanded rapidly this year. Currently, the five-point field in Shanghai is the EMC software development center. EMC prefers intel, Marvell, Oracle, IBM, HP, and other companies have high salaries, and the four-gold employees are also handed over by the company. There are indeed a lot to get, and they are also very good companies. For software jobs, most of them require strong experience in Linux C/C ++, OS kernel is very perfer, and sometimes some windows requirements, because they mainly focus on network storage, there are still more software jobs at the underlying level.
Intel and Intel have a large number of people in software R & D centers in Shanghai. Currently, they are all in zizhu. Intel is also the best computer talent in China. Intel engineers generally have comprehensive knowledge, the company's business is also comprehensive, such as chip semiconductors, wireless network devices, multimedia, and pure software, such as complier and middleware. Most of their system platforms are Linux, and some are wince, c/C ++ experience. Intel is a good company and does not work much overtime. This is a technical company. You can find many experts in it. If you have a master's degree in work for five or six years, each has an annual salary of about.
  
Marvell, this semiconductor company has developed too fast over the past few years. It has acquired an Intel hardware department and a wireless chip Department of UT. By the way, the founder of Marvell is a Chinese Indonesian girl and a Shanghai girl, a strong man. They really give a long face to the Chinese. The businesses inside can be queried on their website, mainly involving storage, in terms of communication chips, most software jobs require Linux C/C ++ to better understand kernel.
Microsoft, if the above companies cannot afford you, please try at Microsoft. At present, most of Microsoft's R & D centers in Shanghai are concentrated in MSN, it is estimated that there are still some peripheral businesses, and very core products are not developed in China at present. They are very picky about candidates and want to find a suitable manager for Microsoft, it is impossible to recommend candidates for or 40 large companies without them. However, many people are not very interested in Microsoft's current domestic business, so finding the right person is more difficult for them.
I will not talk about many other famous companies, such as AMD, HP, IBM, Freescale, apple, Sybase, and so on. There are also grand local companies, Google, and so on .. Each has its own style and corporate culture.
  
Therefore, we can see that various talents in the communication and semiconductor industries focus mainly on Linux, kernel, and C/C ++ in software. If you are good enough, you will have better experience in developing platforms. In terms of hardware, we focus on ASIC design, icdesign, and so on. The most important thing is that to enter these foreign companies, English is very important, generally, 80% of all their interviews are in English.
  
As an angry headhunter, I can't help but lament the criteria for Talent Selection from these multinational companies.
1. these large companies will select the best talents in China and then offer higher salaries. Of course, the cost is much lower than that of foreign engineers, this is why most of them sign their R & D centers in China. Of course, most engineers still do not have core technologies, and most of them are peripheral components, however, mature foreign enterprise systems and generous treatment make it impossible for them to consider local companies. Even if they start their own businesses, because you don't have a lot of core things, therefore, it is difficult to have any entrepreneurial development prospects, such as the chip semiconductor field.
2. What makes people feel sad about a foreign language is that these foreigners come to China to select talents, but they want an Oriental to be fluent in English. Why? It's because people are better than you, and more than once you see the country. A man with a mouth full of English can come to China to mix and eat, even more Chinese people are welcome to speak English with them and think it is a good opportunity to learn English. This is our territory. Here we all speak Chinese, I have nothing to say about English on your land, but when you come to our land, please ask foreigners to learn Chinese. Chinese is more artistic than English. But this is not the case. Most people even wish to forget their mother tongue. They are filled with English in their mouths, is this a high-tech and peaceful method of aggression?
In fact, what does a foreign company bring to China? In addition to solving the problem of employment for many people, it has indeed improved the living standard of many people. The true core technology is the control of foreigners, it is also difficult to enter a very high position. Most of the company's profits are still taken away by Europe and America, and GDP is left to China. To put it bluntly, people still use your cheap and cheap labor.
3. reflecting on contemporary Chinese university education, many teachers and professors do not actually know what kind of talents are needed in the current society. It is really a failure for Chinese university education alone, the update of teaching content lags far behind the update of technology.
  
4. for career development, I often hear from many candidates who have been working for 3 or 4 years. I don't want to do technology anymore. I have already worked as a project leader and don't recommend the engineer job to me, in fact, this idea only exists among Chinese engineers. For such a very good technical company, PL is not a position, most of which are led by the Engineer of senior, and manager is a position, technical companies such as Intel, Cisco, and EMC develop their careers in two ways. One is the technical route and the other is the management route, it doesn't mean that the technology is lower than the salary or level of management. Their levels are independent of each other, and there is a lot of room for improvement like salary, however, even a manager job requires profound technical skills, but it may not be as detailed or in-depth as technical lead cares.
The idea of many graduates in China is that, after several years of technology and leader, you don't need to get bored coding any more. As long as you manage and coordinate, It's just as if you have been liberated, this is why many Chinese companies cannot make the best technology and retain the best talent.
Let people who like technology continue to study technology, and those who have the ability to manage. This is the best way to allocate talent. Of course, China's employment system is inseparable from education from small to large. To solve these problems, we must fix the symptoms and cure the problem.
  
5. said a little more, everyone have to communicate, please add me MSN: zis_an@hotmail.com
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