Since 2008, Internet companies have fallen into the plot more dogged talent battle. Talent war, someone grabbed gold, but also some people just push up the bubble.
Imagine how fast an industry can grow and how many people there are. Since 2008, Internet companies have been caught in the story of more and more dog blood robbed battle unpredictable. Especially after 2010, with the advent of the mobile era, the rapid development of e-commerce, group buying, social networking, mobile games and so on are really not enough for people. There is an endless stream of means to dig people.
Although there have been experts earnest: the Internet bubble will finally burst. But the rumors of "millions of annual salary" and "triple pay" in the market never increase. This year, mobile games and the rise of O2O, Internet companies dot the dot on the scale of the Internet companies must circle a piece of land, I am sorry to say that the layout has been made for the future. These two types of people are hot now. A director above the level of characters, more than one million yuan out of annual salary, is 2-3 times other industries.
So, some of the following stories may sound exaggerated, but we promise that the basics are all facts.
Digging and digging are BAT
BAT (Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent), the three giants of the Internet companies in China, are secretive about the flow of talent, but we always have some ways to see the end.
Since 2010, Taobao has set up a "research and development center" in Beijing. According to insiders, the R & D center set up by Alibaba is more like a "center of digging angle," with the immediate goal being Baidu. The R & D center's main work is responsible for lobbying Baidu and other companies responsible for the technical backbone, and then try to transfer to Hangzhou, where Taobao headquarters.
One executive who has been involved in recommending Baidu technical employees to Taobao revealed that Taobao is now getting more and more demanding of employees. Of the 20 recommended individuals, usually no more than five will pass the first exam. As the introduction of standards increased, "the internal recommended bonus has gone up, from less than 8,000 yuan in 2010 rose to million or more."
Baidu has been the company with the most frequent brain drain in China's Internet companies because employees are often targeted. An employee who has left the job said that when he joined Baidu more than a year ago, his job number came after 40000. Recently, another former employee who joined Baidu said his employee number is close to 70,000. In fact, The number of employees is only about 2000, which means that Baidu basically updated employees in two years (Baidu's number is the only, not because someone left to take over by the new). Therefore, Baidu has a self-ridicule: Baidu's average age never more than 30 years old.
Baidu was digging in the corner, no idle.
In 2011, a headhunter company that has been cooperating with Baidu for three years successfully completed the establishment of the mobile Internet division for Baidu. In 2010, the head-hunter's supply of Baidu's talent, 70% of the traditional Internet, 30% of the field of mobile Internet, and in 2011 became a 5 to 5. The total number of employees in the mobile sector expanded rapidly this year.
The source of such people, the preferred Tencent, Ali, the corresponding department of these large companies, "This type of person is Baidu's favorite because it can be used," accounting for 60% of the overall source; another major source is the professional category Small and medium-sized companies, such as millet, UCweb, 3G portal.
Mobile Internet talent battle in 2010 staged one after another.
According to a headhunter recalls Tencent had made such a condition at the end of 2010: If someone took UCweb offer directly to Tencent to work, salary will double; it is said that the company on the net dragon - the earliest access to mobile games in China One of the company's employees in the field is soft-hearted, with prices up to 4 times the original salary.
Tencent has responded to this later, saying Tencent's employment system has set a strict standard, there will be no other companies to recruit people to report such kind of childrens. But one person who left 360 in 2011 said that on the eve of the "3Q war" in the last months of 2010, "Tencent did indeed dig for UCweb 360."
What is missing
Whenever a company needs to start a new business or is not satisfied with existing business development, the first thing is to dig up people. Digging into teams that already have relatively successful experience will not only bring tremendous help to the company's business, but will also give yourself an extra margin in the capital markets and gain recognition from investors.
The so-called missing what make up.
In 2010, most of the Baidu employees who flowed into Alibaba.com concentrated on Taobao and Aliyun. To put it in concrete terms, they are the search and database department. In June 2011, Taobao split into three companies: the main C2C platform Taobao market, the main B2C platform Taobao Mall, as well as focus on search technology Amoy network.
May 2010, before Taobao chief scientist Yang Zhenkun joined Taobao, presided over the design and development of Taobao information storage and real-time retrieval system. His research interests include massive information processing and algorithmic design. In March of this year, Taobao announced the opening up of original transaction data from Taobao to merchants, enterprises and consumers.
Prior to Tencent in order to do electricity providers, but also has been Taobao, Shop No. 1 and other e-commerce platform targeted digging people. At the time, Tencent's strategy for e-commerce was obvious. It has invested in a number of B2C shopping websites including Yi Xun, Haole Bu, Ke Lan Diamond, and has re-established the QQ mall since the end of 2010. Digging in the e-commerce market, Tencent aimed at the first goal is naturally Taobao, and more generous than other companies. Senior management, with Taobao or other B2C e-commerce experience in the field, usually as soon as entering the company will have up to millions or even tens of millions of options. Of course, the premise is that they must work for three years, the option can become the actual equity.
Of course, Taobao will not sit back and ignore. However, Taobao's average salary is not particularly prominent, it will not easily out two or three times the salary. Unlike other e-commerce companies, Taobao is more willing to look for talent in the traditional industries and give it "a different development space than traditional industries."
Leave the big company
Salary is a very important factor, and usually the first element. But for small-company employees, the main temptation is to pay dividends and equity or options, even though salaries can not match BAT. "We are such a small company, there is no option pool, who are willing to work hard to your life?" In the early days of business street, Tang Yan said.
More people, in the new company can find more space and vitality than the old club. Compared with such big companies as Tencent, Baidu and Alibaba, those thriving small and medium-sized start-ups today are even more desperate for their jobs.
A headhunting company that has teamed up with Tencent, Baidu and Alibaba revealed that most of the diggers from these large Internet companies are in fact those small and medium tech start-ups. They took twice or even three times the salary, in addition will also allocate certain options, to be dug a "hypothetical post-market" pie.
In order to find the "pillar" from the big company. Smaller companies are sometimes more generous, middle-level big companies go to small and midsize start-up companies, not just in salary, but often in the near future as vice presidents. Of course, the rigid system of big companies has also made many people dissatisfied.
In 2011, Wu Yunyang, director of the Hangzhou Research Center who worked at Netease for 10 years, left and started his business. As the core of R & D strength of Netease, he has directly participated in the research and development of online games such as Netease's "Westward Journey" and "Fantasy Westward Journey." In his resignation letter, Wu Yunyang expressed some dissatisfaction with Netease's R & D culture at the time: to make the game project to reduce demand, copy a product that has been inspected by the market, and then make the details better and better. This way is more secure. However, Not my heart expect. "
I am a malicious competition
In early 2011, with the intensified competition, buy site limelight. Those who get the financing buy website heart are all hitting the same abacus, burn, dig people, make a big impact, the rapid impact of the market.
In May 2011, after Woo-tsu's CEO Xu Maodong announced a 200-million-dollar investment, he began to mass-scale mergers and acquisitions and dredging, handling, glutinous rice, and the U.S. regiment were all his goals. This time no matter what wall dug successfully reached the opponent, can enhance their own strength, and combat each other's morale.
US group net take-away project manager Shen Peng memories Xu Maodong trying to persuade him to quit the scene: "He asked me to meet Chihli Hall, one afternoon we both talk about, his people are waiting downstairs, not allowed to come." Xu Maodong except Emphasizing absolute decentralization, allowing options, but also to Shen Peng portrayed a listed realizes, prosperous prosperous future.
When Xu Maodong learned that he was the mother of Wang Meiyang, the city manager of the US delegation, he hired the best four doctors in his hometown Taizhou to give his mother a doctor. By July 2011, Xu Maodong announced in a high profile on Weibo that the original US delegation Shanghai Area General Manager, City Manager and the National Sales Champion more than 100 members joined Wow Group.
In group buying this crazy industry, several companies have had a million dollar annual salary for newcomers who have just graduated less than three years.
According to a person familiar with the matter, when a large-scale online company in Tongcheng carried out a business, one of its competitors deliberately rented another office opposite its office for the purpose of not doing business but focusing on digging the same network Regional Director.
Where to go CEO Zhuang Chen Chao has also been exposed, access to Baidu investment, go to Ctrip specifically to dig people.
When the industry goes down, these high-profile companies have to lay off large redundancies. Gaopeng Group buy site just after more than a year of wantonly digging out in August 2011 on the outbreak of the country's large layoffs, and a large number of people have not even had time to dig for the company to bring decent revenue.
Be careful with the talent bubble
Of course, there is a risk of job-hopping.
When Ye Peng joined Taobao in October 2010, he is considered to have extensive experience in sales, marketing and business operations and can help Taobao Mall improve its commercial platform system. But less than a year later, when Taobao broke into three companies, the manager of Taobao Mall became Zhang Yong, president of Taobao Mall, and Zeng Ming, chairman of the board.
Digging people more and more like a venture capital, but the probability of success may be lower than the venture capital, the legendary Maxima are rare.
In the first half of 2010, in order to develop the business of Shengfu Tong, its third-party payment platform, Shanda started to systematically dig up people from Alipay, some at the expense of more than double the original company's salary. However, an insider disclosed that these people did not play the role they envisioned - simply relying on their curriculum vitae, the examination of their actual abilities was ignored.
There are many stories of fish in troubled waters. Especially in the past two years, hot group buy industry, "casually caught on the street who became the district manager the same month, a lot of knowledge can not keep up." US group COO Gan Jiawei said.
In fact, in the field of O2O, some people enter the company and think that they are old employees in three months. After six months of work, they dare to brag to say that they are senior and consider themselves experts after a year of work. Apart from impulsiveness, this also means foaming.
Recognizing this problem, Internet companies have set up huge HR teams to quickly replenish their talent for the company's rapidly expanding business and, on the other hand, to strengthen staff management and training. Among them, Jingdong HR department has nearly 400 employees.
However, strong HR can not stop the flow of talent. Just when I wrote this manuscript, microblogging was broke the news, the original editor of Sohu, Phoenix Chinese executive vice president Liu Chun joined Ali, responsible for the film and television business.