Why do some people say that working in a big company is "mixed"?

My experience is that the shorter the establishment time, the simpler the interpersonal relationship, and the longer the history, the more complicated the interpersonal relationship.

Many companies flaunt their long history to show their strength, but as long as they have been established for more than 15-20 years, don't expect simple interpersonal relationships.

The longer the history, the more old employees, and these old employees are the problem. There will be unhappiness between old leaders and old leaders, and there will be unhappiness between old employees and old employees. The factions are fighting each other, and they are happy. The second reason is that old employees are slick and hopeless for promotion, so they are good at grasping loopholes in the company and fishing in troubled waters. If they can work less, they will never work more. In short, internal friction will be very serious.

Even the big boss can't handle this phenomenon. Suppose you are the big boss, you have to arrange work, but according to the division of labor, various departments may say that it is not my job. If a department manager is forced to do it, will the department manager accept it? If you don't answer it, you will offend the big boss. If you take it, you will be called weak and incompetent by your brothers, and all the bad jobs will be taken over. The final result can only be part of it.

If it is a newly established company, things will be much easier. Most of them are new employees and have a strong sense of awe for the company, the boss and the work. No matter who does more or less, it's all good. We don't know each other very well, and neither do leaders and subordinates. Without mutual unhappiness, there would be no small circle of interests.

The reason why the interpersonal relationship of state-owned enterprises is complicated is that the state-owned enterprises have a long history and stable work, so there are many old employees, many of whom are over 10 years old, and they are extremely lacking in vitality. When these old employees stay together for a long time, chemical reactions will occur. The longer they stay together, the more stories there will be.

Although many large foreign companies have a long history and entered China earlier, their interpersonal relationship is still relatively simple, because employees generally like to jump ship and have the mentality of "patting their ass and leaving". They have no idea of working in a company all their lives. As long as you seize a good opportunity and run immediately, most employees are allowed to run for five years. My feeling of working in a foreign company is that every year, colleagues around me will change jobs, so I won't put too much affection into my colleagues, and the relationship between colleagues is limited to work. However, the foreign headquarters of foreign companies is different, because it has a long history, there are a large number of old employees at the headquarters, and the interpersonal relationship is quite complicated. China executives are also part of a faction.

Foreign-funded enterprises in some inland cities have become more and more like state-owned enterprises. Because of better benefits and higher wages, few employees leave their jobs, which also leads to the old employees getting together and complicated interpersonal relationships.

The reason why Internet companies have simple interpersonal relationships is that their history is generally short, and because of the rapid expansion of the industry, people in Internet companies also like to jump ship, so there are many new employees in each company. Although giants such as BAT have a history of more than 20 years, the real rapid expansion is also a matter of nearly ten years. However, compared with ByteDance, Xiaomi, Meituan and other companies with a history of 10 years, the interpersonal relationship of BAT is still slightly complicated. For example, it is rumored that Baidu has many sects. Zhang Yaqin, the former senior vice president of Microsoft, was the president of Baidu for five years, but he really couldn't play anymore. He retired to be a professor in Tsinghua. Later, Qilu, Microsoft's global executive vice president, joined Baidu as president and left after two years. Although Alibaba and Tencent have no big moves, they are also undercurrents inside.

In the next 10 year, these internet companies will become more and more greasy and bureaucratic.

The simplest interpersonal relationship is the newly established new track startups such as new energy vehicles, driverless, AI, meta-universe, and chip design. Although these companies are large in scale, their history is too short. There are no old employees. They are all new employees, and there is no resistance to anything. But at the same time, another problem will appear, that is, the process is chaotic. You can do everything A or B, method/kloc-0 or method 2, so the result is often uncontrollable. Employees who have worked in mature and stable big companies will feel very uncomfortable once they enter.

Domestic mature traditional private enterprises, such as Lenovo, Geely, Wahaha and Li Ning, have a history of 38 years, 35 years and 32 years respectively, and are in the stage of getting ahead. Corporate processes are not as standardized and perfect as those of the top 500 foreign companies, and interpersonal relationships are not as simple as those of Internet companies.

Compared with the above mature private enterprises, the interpersonal relationship between Hong Kong and Taiwan enterprises is slightly simpler. Hong Kong and Taiwan enterprises generally have a long history, and many of them were established before the reform and opening up, such as Foxconn/KOOC-0/974, Want Want Group/KOOC-0/962, Ding Xin Group (Master Kong's parent company)/KOOC-0/958, Chow Tai Fook/KOOC-0/929, and Bourne Optics/KOOC-0/987. However, the real time to settle in the mainland was very late, and the climax was after 2000. Most of the newly-built companies around the country are recruiting new people. Although the head office has a long history, its subsidiaries have a short history and the interpersonal relationship is relatively less complicated. Compared with the head office, the process is relatively standardized.

Old employees are a double-edged sword. On the one hand, their rich experience can help solve problems, but on the other hand, their existence will also create new problems. Therefore, the company doesn't like old employees very much, and prefers to recruit fresh graduates to drive them away. The old employees here are not older employees, but employees with a long history.

There is no perfect company in the world, and the company has a long history of standardized processes, but the interpersonal relationship is complex. The interpersonal relationship of a newly established company is complex, but the process is not standardized, so it is difficult to take care of it. But generally speaking, companies that have been established for about 10 years are relatively good, and the China office of the top 500 foreign companies is even better. However, this problem still needs to be viewed from another side. At first, you can't choose a job just for the sake of comfort, but whether you can improve your comprehensive ability. If you can get along in a company with complicated interpersonal relationships, you can go to any company with ease in the future.