About Huawei?

New Weekly: Huawei is probably the most tired enterprise in China.

"Huawei employees commit suicide and self-harm, and there are more and more employees suffering from depression and anxiety, which is very worrying." Ren Zeng said in a letter to Huawei employees: "We should live a life full of difficulties happily." He admitted, "I used to be a patient with severe depression and anxiety. With the help of the doctor and my optimism, my illness was completely cured. I believe everyone can.

In the tide of global economy, private enterprises in China have to rely on manpower and cost to meet the challenges of international competitors. Huawei, an IT company famous for its "mattress culture", is undoubtedly one of them. Shortly after Hu Xinyu's death, Yan Jiehe, the former chairman of Pacific Construction Group, even told the reporter of New Weekly, "Huawei is an excellent private enterprise in China, so we can't let it take the blame alone. To make a revolution is to make sacrifices. What are a few people afraid of? ! "

After arguing with Director Zhang for 20 minutes on the phone, Zhao, a Huawei employee, threw away his mobile phone and jumped from the seventh floor and died. It is said that Zhao did not attend the compulsory training held by Huawei Changchun office every weekend-this happened in Guolian Community, Changchun City, Jilin Province on the afternoon of August1/kloc-0.

Aring Zhang, a Huawei employee, took two consecutive days off. At 2 o'clock in the afternoon, he told his father to go out for a walk, left Huawei's Sakata base, and went to the corridor where he rented a house for the first time in Shenzhen four kilometers away, and hanged himself. He was 26 years old and joined Huawei for 60 days-this happened in a community in Meilin, Shenzhen 18 one afternoon in July.

Hu Xinyu, a Huawei employee, suffered from viral encephalitis. During the one-month rescue, until the last moment, many organs in the whole body kept failing. He is 25 years old and joined Huawei for one year. Huawei admitted that Hu's death was related to long-term continuous overtime-this happened in the Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou on the evening of May 28th, 2006.

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"Wolf enterprise" wearing camouflage clothes

Huawei has the blood of an old soldier in its bones.

"When new employees enter Huawei, they have to go through two weeks of closed training, which is military training. The training was done by Huawei University, and the instructors were from the national flag class. "

Gao Qiang (pseudonym) is an internal employee of the R&D department of Huawei's Shenzhen headquarters. Although he has been employed for two years, he thinks he is just a newcomer at Huawei.

Get up at 5 o'clock every day, run, do exercises, then have class and watch a DVD about Huawei's growth history and corporate culture. "We live in the dormitory collectively and are not allowed to go home," Gao Qiang said. The two-week military training is divided into two parts. One, a week-long "one camp training", "Why did the company decide the name of the first camp? To be honest, we don't know, maybe the boss is a soldier. " The content is to understand the company's products and equipment with common sense. Explain the development process of R&D personnel and the use of Huawei office automation platform. "Because our office automation platform is more complicated, it will definitely be used after training." After the training, there will be an exam. After two weeks of military training, Gao Qiang felt particularly proud. "Huawei is a dynamic and flexible enterprise, and we are United." What Gao Qiang is most proud of is.

There is a management thought that is widely circulated in the industry. He believes that enterprises need the spirit of wolves. Wolves have three characteristics: first, a keen sense of smell, second, indomitable and selfless offensive spirit, and third, group struggle. "Ren has always been a very low-key person with clear thinking and good emotional intelligence. Maybe your salary will not be the highest, but he can make your potential play to 100%. "

On July 2 1 2006, just 63 days after Hu Xinyu's sudden death, Huawei People's Daily, an internal magazine of Huawei, published a special feature entitled "Heaven rewards diligence" on the front page. The article writes: "The industry is the most difficult to manage in the world, and the electronic information industry is the most difficult to manage. Elimination is more ruthless, and retreat means extinction. Unfortunately, Huawei entered the information industry because of its naivety.

Every new employee has to undergo military training before he can go to work in his department. During the three-month probation period, they will be led by mentors, who are usually business backbones who have worked in Huawei for more than two or three years. "Mentor is like your nanny, and in the army, it's like plotting. Any life problems and technical problems can be consulted by a tutor, such as human resources problems and renting houses. All these questions must be answered without reservation. This is Huawei's unwritten rule. "

There will be a defense after the three-month probation period, and the defense team is composed of relevant leaders, department heads, business backbones and tutors. "Go into the house one by one, face to face, they ask questions, you answer them, then score them, and finally decide whether you can become a full member." Gao Qiang said. ABCD has four grades, A is "excellent", B is "good" and C is "normal". D has one more chance to be observed, otherwise it will be dismissed. "ABCD is an indicator to measure many things, and future salary increases and year-end awards will follow these performances."

Aring Zhang finished military training and just started a one-month probation period. After repeatedly complaining about "great pressure" and wanting to resign, he chose to hang himself in the corridor. "Those three months were very difficult. Even if you used to do software or something and entered a new communication field, you would know nothing. After the probation period, not many people were dismissed. Everyone comes in to compete and actively learn things. " Gao Qiang explained.

"Killing" Mattress and Depression

"When we embarked on this road, there was no retreat. We paid a high price, and our senior leaders sacrificed their health for it. Later, people were still fighting to the death in order to do their best in the industry. When the Saudi Minister of Commerce came to visit, he found mattresses all over the cabinets in our office, and then he brought all his entourage to listen to us explain what this mattress was for. He believes that a country must have the spirit of struggle if it wants to get rich. Struggle needs persistence from generation to generation.

Ren clearly put forward "mattress culture" in "How long can Huawei's red flag last". There is a tradition in Huawei's pioneering period. Almost every R&D employee has a mattress, which is rolled under the iron cabinet and desk. During lunch break, they lie on the floor; Work overtime at night, don't go back to the dormitory at the full moon, just this mattress, sleep when you are tired, and get up when you wake up. A mattress is half a home, which maximizes Huawei's physical strength and intelligence and becomes a symbol of Huawei's spirit. Huawei people wrapped in mattresses can easily be imagined as soldiers carrying bags for a long time.

"Overtime is normal for R&D departments." Gao Qiang said that Hu Xinyu's sudden death and Aring Zhang's hanging were only cases and did not affect Huawei's "mattress culture". "From a global perspective, sudden death is actually as normal as Japan in the developed industrial era." He believes that there are many factors leading to sudden death: one is continuous overtime, the other is mental stress, and the third is. Fourth, the influence of the surrounding environment. "At that time, the company also called on everyone to learn the spirit of rewarding diligence. Some projects are very tense. If you don't do this, others will take the cake away. We can strongly feel in the company that if you don't do well, the company will be in danger, the products will be in danger, and personal survival will be in danger. "

The spirit of "throwing one's head and blood" and "doing one's best" is highly respected in Huawei. Gao Qiang said that in Huawei, the biggest pressure is the "R&D body", including R&D department, testing department, marketing department, customer service department, especially R&D department. "I have been in Huawei for two years. I have suffered, stayed up late, and lay on a mat.

In Gao Qiang's view, Aring Zhang's death is related to his personal repayment of college students' loans and his girlfriend's complaint that he didn't buy a house, and has nothing to do with the company. "As far as my colleagues are concerned, they think this person is too fragile and the company didn't kill him. Even if he doesn't go to Huawei, he will die in ZTE and Tencent, which is inevitable. "

However, high-intensity and high-pressure work is making Huawei employees unhappy. "Is there any way to make employees face life positively, openly and decently? I thought about it over and over again, but I just couldn't figure it out. " Ren said in a letter to depressed employees, "Life is too short, don't torture yourself. Have the opportunity to go to Beijing, Jingshan Park, and enter from the west gate. There is a sea of songs, which is as hot as a tsunami. These are elderly people in their twilight years, dozens and hundreds, all singing loudly. How optimistic and open-minded.

Gao Qiang said that in order to alleviate the mental stress of employees, the company set up a special "honor department". "If employees have any dissatisfaction, they can talk to each other. They are all old experts, psychologists and old revolutionaries in their fifties and sixties. " In addition, the affiliated hospital of Peking University has also set up a branch in the company. "The company has done its best in all aspects, and the rest depends on the individual."

Huawei and Shenzhen: Probably the most tired enterprises and cities in China.

Huawei may be the most tired IT enterprise in Shenzhen, and Shenzhen may be the most tired city in China.

"Compared with other companies, I am a little tired, but there are still many software companies in Shenzhen who are also very tired. ZTE and Tencent are also very tired. That makes no difference. Shenzhen is a very tired place, "Gao Qiang said.

Depressed Huawei people are not isolated cases in Shenzhen. According to the survey report of Shenzhen Municipal Health Bureau, the total prevalence rate of mental illness among residents over 8 years old in Shenzhen/kloc-0 is 2 1. 1%, ranking first in cities in China. This means that 1 of 5 people suffer from mental illness, and the incidence of depression in Shenzhen is 7%. The global incidence of depression is about 3. 1%. The prevalence of anxiety disorder in Shenzhen is 9.94%, which means that 10 adults in Shenzhen suffer from anxiety disorder, especially obsessive-compulsive disorder. At the same time, 2000 people commit suicide every year in Shenzhen, which is higher than the number of traffic accident deaths.

Most of Huawei's employees come from mountainous areas and villages. They believe in the spirit of "a foolish man and a mountain". "At the beginning of the company's establishment, we met the fiercest competition in the world at home, and we had to survive in the narrow gap of the market; When we go abroad to expand the international market, we can see that the fertile land we can see has already been seized by western companies. Only in those remote, turbulent and harsh natural areas can we have a chance if they move slowly and invest a little. In order to seize this last chance, countless outstanding Huawei sons and daughters left their homeland, away from their families, and went overseas, whether in Africa where the disease is rampant or Iraq where the smoke is still lingering. Some employees were attacked by gangsters abroad and had more than 30 stitches on their heads. After their recovery, they returned to work. Some employees were injured in terrorist bombings or suffered from malaria several times, and they continued to stick to their posts after recovery ... "wrote in the article" Heaven rewards diligence "widely circulated by Huawei.

"China's economy is growing rapidly and competition is intensifying. Everyone has to work overtime, but in China, I feel that Shenzhen is the worst overtime. " Gao Qiang said that almost all IT communication companies in China, especially those in the R&D department, work overtime very hard, including Baidu and Jinshan. Why does Huawei, an IT company that works overtime, become the focus? "It's just that they don't have as many people as Huawei. As long as such a thing happens to them, the focus may turn to them. "

Gao Qiang doesn't think that China enterprises rely on overtime to compete with international enterprises with cheap labor costs. "Like IBM, Ericsson and Nokia, they have to work hard. If they don't do it, there will be no market and no products the next day. I don't believe they are selling products ten years ago. "

In Gao Qiang's view, Huawei is not as "dirty" as described by Tianya and other forums, and Huawei is not as rich as the outside world thinks, or has a stable iron rice bowl. "In fact, Huawei's employees are still disheveled and simple, and their income level is only above average in IT companies." The average salary of new employees in Huawei is about 6,000 to 8,000 yuan, excluding subsidies and year-end awards. The company will also allocate a certain number of places to each department every year. Give internal shares to well-behaved old employees. "Companies are generally divided into technical lines and management lines. For example, the technical line is divided into six-level engineers, who are not big officials, but the money you get is similar to that of the leaders. This is very similar to the army, and the ranks and positions are also separated. "

Technological advantages and stable income are the factors that tempt most people to join Huawei. "There are still a group of people who think that Huawei can hone a person's will, feel high-intensity work and high-tempo life, and enrich itself." Gao Qiang explained. In fact, even if Huawei has negative news such as sudden death, hanging and jumping off a building, it still can't resist the popularity of Huawei's recruitment in colleges and universities. At a special job fair held by Huawei, Li Tongxue, a 25-year-old graduate student majoring in computer science, said, "I know it's difficult to work in Huawei, but now house prices and prices are rising. If you don't find a well-paid job, it's hard to get a foothold in a big city." Another female classmate claimed that she did not intend to work in Huawei for a long time, but just wanted to earn more money while she was young.

Shenzhen people seem to have only the motivation to make money desperately, but they have no ability to be happy. It seems that the best pastime of Huawei employees is that a large group of people often have tea (retreats) on weekends and late at night, talk about business, talk about the future and exchange ideas.