How high is the salary at Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent?

How high is the salary at Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent? I was shocked after watching it.

As legends and benchmark companies in China’s Internet industry, every move of the three BAT companies is always closely watched by Internet people. Today, when the aura of well-known foreign companies such as Microsoft and IBM is gradually losing its appeal in the hearts of domestic Internet people, entering BAT and becoming a member of a large company has become one of the goals that many Internet people pursue in their careers.

Are these "labels" placed on BAT by outsiders true? What is the current situation for those who work at BAT? Where did those who wanted to or had left go?

With these questions in mind, the reporter compiled a BAT talent flow report for everyone during the upcoming job-hopping peak at the end of the year.

Sample of this article: From January 1, 2015 to October 31, 2017, 1,114 BAT Internet people and 22,623 non-BAT Internet people displayed their resumes on the 100offer platform.

1. Does BAT value academic qualifications?

BAT’s JD recruitment for external social recruitment usually imposes strict restrictions on academic qualifications. Ordinary positions require a bachelor’s degree or above, and some positions even require a master’s degree or above. Educational qualifications, and graduates from 985 and 211 colleges and universities, which makes many low-educated Internet users shun BAT.

“Some resumes from large companies cannot go through social recruitment channels at all, and will be rejected at the first pass. I can only have some hope by asking friends for referrals.” A college graduate once searched for jobs on the 100offer platform Opportunity's iOS engineers told us. When he was interviewed by a company through internal referrals, he successfully passed the first few rounds of technical interviews, but was eventually rejected at the HR level because of his academic background.

“But in fact, my technical level is completely qualified for that position. My friends who work at BAT often ask me for help when they encounter problems that cannot be solved technically.” The engineer said.

The picture below shows the educational composition of BAT programmers on our platform. It can be seen from this that employees with a bachelor's degree are the main force of BAT, followed by master's degree. Although employees with associate degree only account for 5%, there is still room for survival.

So, among the three BAT companies, which one values ??higher education more? Which school is more accepting of junior college students?

You can basically get the answer from the picture above: Baidu, which will focus on the field of artificial intelligence this year, has the highest proportion of doctoral students among the three companies. Because it is located in Beijing, a gathering place for high-end universities, surrounding universities have also continuously provided it with high-quality doctoral student resources. In contrast, Tencent, which is located in Shenzhen, has the lowest number of doctoral students among the three due to the lack of resources in surrounding universities.

Coincidentally, in terms of acceptance of junior college students, Baidu is also the highest, and Tencent is last.

In general, BAT’s academic requirements are more stringent than other Internet companies. This is not only reflected in the proportion of college students with a bachelor's degree, but also in the proportion of master's degree or above.

As can be seen from the above figure, the proportion of non-BAT companies with master's degree or above on the 100offer platform (of which doctoral degrees account for 0.4%) is far lower than the proportion of BAT with master's degree or above; non-BAT companies have junior college degrees The 15% proportion of academic qualifications is much larger than the 5% in BAT.

In terms of salary, BAT’s salaries for Internet people with different academic qualifications are also much higher than those offered by non-BAT Internet companies.

Among them, the annual salary gap between BAT PhDs and non-BAT PhDs is the largest, reaching 100,000. The annual salary of Internet users with a master's degree remains basically the same regardless of whether they are in BAT or not.

It can be seen that in addition to the resources, connections and aura of big companies, salary levels are generally higher than the market average, which is probably one of the reasons why many Internet people flock to them.

So, how high are the salaries of BAT Internet people? Next, we will start with you in terms of salary.

2. How high is the salary of BAT?

The picture below is a comparison of the pre-job-hopping salaries of BAT Internet people and non-BAT Internet people on our platform. We have divided them according to the timeline of three years of work.

It can be seen that no matter how many years they have worked, the salary level of BAT Internet people is generally higher than that of non-BAT Internet people, and the longer they work, the more obvious the salary gap between the two.

A while ago, there was a hotly discussed question on Zhihu: "What is the future for programmers who have stayed in BAT first-tier Internet companies for more than three years?" From the salary data we collected this time, The average annual salary of BAT people with 3+ years of work experience should be around 357,000, which is generally 21% higher than the annual salary of non-BAT Internet people, corresponding to Tencent T3.1, Baidu T5~T6, and Alibaba P6~P7. Position (reference levels are all technical positions).

So, what are the salaries for different positions at BAT? You can also use the data on the 100offer platform as a reference here.

It can be seen that in BAT, the three highest-paying positions are: architect, algorithm engineer and product manager. All three have higher job qualifications and higher market demand. high position.

On the contrary, the salary performance of Java engineers and front-end engineers in BAT is relatively average for those who have large market demand but have many basic positions.

After reading the high salaries of BAT employees, you may be wondering: With such high salaries, are BAT employees popular when they change jobs? Which companies can afford to support them? Which companies do they like to go to?

3. Is it popular for BAT employees to change jobs?

There is no doubt that BAT people will have the aura of a big company when they change jobs. Whether they are well-funded listed companies or start-up companies that increase revenue and reduce expenditure, they are all competing for the Internet people who come out of BAT.

The above figure can confirm this view: the per capita number of interview invitations for BAT people on the 100offer platform (9) is greater than the per capita number of interview invitations for non-BAT Internet users (7). Among them, Wang Xufeng (pseudonym), who received 94 interview invitations on our platform in 2015, is a front-end engineer with a Baidu background.

Xu Feng received 94 cover invitations from 100offer in 2015

He not only received face-to-face invitations from Tencent and Alibaba, but also received invitations from other large companies such as NetEase, Meituan, 360, 58. Toutiao and other face-to-face invitations. Of course, more face-to-face invitations come from start-up companies that are hungry for talents.

As for the Internet people who have resigned from Baidu, because they are located in Beijing, they are also the Internet people on our platform BAT who have received the largest number of interview invitations.

However, Xu Feng, who has no shortage of job opportunities, has only accepted interview invitations from a few large companies on the platform, although the salaries offered by some startups are much higher than those of large companies.

This brings up another topic: Where do BAT Internet people go to find new jobs?

4. Where do BAT employees go to change jobs?

March and May every year are the peak of job hopping for BAT people. This time point also coincides with the peak of job hopping in the recruitment market after the year.

Since part of BAT’s year-end bonuses will be issued in April, May will once again usher in a job-hopping peak after receiving the year-end bonuses. From May until the end of the year, the number of BAT people changing jobs has been relatively stable.

Which companies did these BAT people who changed jobs go to? Judging from the size of the company they finally join, more than half of BAT people will still choose large companies above the D round, of which listed companies account for 34%.

Many employees who have no hope of promotion in their original company often choose to jump between the three BAT companies if they can be promoted in another company.

"Generally, Baidu people who jump to AT have encountered upgrade bottlenecks in Baidu, and they can upgrade if they go to AT. But there are few such people, because they can't upgrade in Baidu, and it's the same if they go to AT. It’s difficult to get promoted, so it’s better to stay at Baidu, so I see more people from Baidu changing jobs to companies like Didi and Meituan.” A candidate who once joined Baidu through us is still working at Baidu. Tell 100offer.

Since the three BAT companies are headquartered in Beijing, Hangzhou and Shenzhen respectively, the flow of their employees when they change jobs is also subject to geographical restrictions.

For example, Baidu Internet people in Beijing have many D-round and above large companies to choose from when changing jobs; while Alibaba people in Hangzhou like to jump to NetEase, a large company also in Hangzhou; if they want to start a business The company will also choose star Internet companies that are also in the e-commerce field;

Tencent employees like to go to younger pan-entertainment Internet companies, such as iQiyi. A large part also went to SenseTime, an AI unicorn company that just received a 1.5 billion yuan investment from Alibaba.

As for why BAT people don’t like to go to small companies, the Baidu candidate mentioned earlier said this:

“I have been in contact with some small companies before, and I feel that their technology I’m not very mature. If I go there and have to deal with some low-level things, I don’t like it very much.”

Having become accustomed to life in a big factory, he believes that big companies have a more complete technical system that can provide him with it. Technology brings more growth. In addition, the wages offered by large factories are also higher. If he changes his job to a small company, unless the salary is double, it will be very unattractive to him.

Summary

As one of the three major "Ivy League" companies in China's Internet industry, BAT is a place that many Internet people yearn for. Through this report, we can also feel to some extent that it is an indisputable fact that the outside world says that BAT people have good backgrounds, high salaries, aura, and are easy to change jobs.

But from the perspective of those employees who have left BAT, the repetitive work of large companies has restricted growth, and the impetuous emotions caused by complex interpersonal relationships are the same as the cumbersome business processes of large companies that slow down project progress. exist.

Therefore, BAT’s annual talent flow is still a huge number. Just like the siege effect, people inside want to get out and people outside want to get in. But whether BAT is suitable for you or not, only those who have actually experienced it will know the answer.