The end of the myth of foreign companies: from Zhang to leave Microsoft

September 8, 2014, Microsoft announced its Microsoft Global Senior vice President, Microsoft Asia-Pacific Research and Development Group chairman Zhang for personal reasons to leave. Sources say Zhang will join Baidu as president. Zhang was born in Taiyuan, Shanxi Province in 1966, 12-Year-old admitted to China University of Science and Technology class, 23-Year-old received a Ph. D. In 1999, joined Microsoft, Microsoft China Co., Ltd. is the chairman of Microsoft, the current global senior vice president and Microsoft Asia-Pacific Research and Development Group chairman, the Chinese can , but he chose to leave. In the era of Zhang, to study abroad, into foreign enterprises, was once the dream of Chinese university graduates. Today, the civil servants who seem to have boundless scenery are the third choice after going abroad. Private software companies are the fifth option after the state-owned enterprises. 10 years Hedong, 10 years of Hexi, now Zhang also left Microsoft to invest in Baidu, the era of foreign enterprises passed. First, the halo of foreign companies more than 10 years ago, China, including the government is a poor word. A university graduate to enter the national ministry, income only thousand yuan, state-owned enterprises, private enterprises income is not high. Foreign companies can provide very good salary and benefits by the advantage of global wages. Travel is not a five-star, higher than the state-owned enterprises, private enterprises several times the good remuneration, relatively simple personnel relations at the grassroots, so that foreign employees become a popular choice for careers. At the time of the exchange rate, even if the Chinese employees pay a high price of water, compared to the domestic employees of foreign companies also cheaper too much. Talents from all over the road joined the foreign enterprises. Petty bourgeoisie, white-collar, quality of life these concepts are from the average income higher than the foreign staff. China was in a period of rapid development, and local companies had not learned to compete with international giants, and business was relatively good. Foreign-funded enterprises are mostly good, but also have the ability to support the high salaries and benefits of employees, foreign and foreign employees are quilt cover a dazzling halo. The sense of achievement of high pay and performance growth masks the glass ceiling of the promotion path and the embarrassment of not having the right to decide. Second, the rise of local enterprises in China with the Internet tide, the United States rose to a number of new companies such as Google. China's widely criticized Internet-networking controls give Chinese companies a chance. As long as the United States has an Internet business model, there will be students to bring this model back to the country, and then developed in the environment of closed internet, the world's largest population, means the world's largest Internet users, and the number of means of income. So, we see the rise of Internet enterprises, from the difficult start to the Chinese giants, and then to foreign listings, become the world's internet giants. Capital played a big part in the rise of these giants. China's emerging internet companies, like the US, have made a number of billionaires by listing. Emerging enterprises need talent, but in foreign companies for many years, familiar with the local situation, the accumulation of international management experience of the talent is naturally the best mining goals. As a result, a foreign company became China's new enterprise Whampoa Military Academy. Most of the Chinese handset makers now have former Motorola employees. Microsoft's former staff is also in the Internet businessEverywhere。 In a foreign company, you can only get a relatively high salary, if you do not have an overseas background, you will soon meet the glass ceiling. And in China's internet companies, you can get options or shares and have a chance to make money overnight. Even if you can't get it, you won't meet the invisible glass ceiling, the promotion space is much larger. More importantly, you can influence the operations of your business, not just a pawn. Third, the gloom of the high pay halo after years of economic growth and a real estate bubble, China's wages have risen sharply, and the renminbi has been appreciating, and the myth of high salaries for foreign companies is crumbling. In that year, foreign-funded enterprises as long as local one of the salary will be able to find highly qualified staff. Today, the median income of American households is less than 50,000 trillion, while the starting salary of a Chinese mobile phone company in Shenzhen has reached 10,000 yuan, and bat is a higher internet company. Even if a Beijing family gets a median income in the United States, it is no longer attractive for foreign companies to take out a few of their local salaries. In those days, foreign executives were paid by any company in the country, and now Baidu can pry the top executives and senior technicians of Google and Microsoft. Not only Zhang, the so-called Google Brain Wunda also joined the Baidu. Foreign companies ' pay is no longer dazzling, and local start-ups are more competitive. The awkward pieces of chess Zhang official to Microsoft Global Vice President, responsible for Asia-Pacific Research and Development Group. But he wanted to leave three years ago. He was responsible for global communications and embedded products. And just after he left in 2006, Apple's iphone brought a revolution in mobile internet. Microsoft in the past few years, the following Google Bing search did not gain, the mobile Internet was originally the concept of the earliest, but after Apple, Google followed by a step back, has been squeezed out of the mobile Internet operating system market, the effort to buy Nokia, but has become a heavy burden. And Zhang as Microsoft's global senior vice president does not change anything. Similarly, in Motorola, both before and after the acquisition, the Chinese team did not have much of a say in Motorola's products, only to do some product matching work. The needs of Chinese users cannot be fed back to the product through the Chinese team. At Nokia, many Chinese employees at the meeting questioned why the company did not make Android phones, but were told that it was a high-level decision and that you had no right to ask. Chinese people in foreign companies are not trusted, it is difficult to affect the company's decision-making, not the chess players, but only the Chinese region to make money in the pawn. Top executives have no decision-making power, and Chinese employees at the bottom are not even allowed to touch the company's core technology. In foreign companies, the Chinese are only outsiders. When I joined a foreign company, I was paid. And when the struggle to economic independence, no longer need to work to maintain the level of livelihood, sense of belonging, achievement is more important, at this time leave to do what you want to do is a choice. Zhang chose to leave, the Chinese mainland's myth of foreign companies ended.