Why does Huawei have to clear its seniority every 8 years?

Thousands of people want to join Huawei every year. Indeed, with the generous salary, considerate arrangements for catering and dormitory culture, and the gathering of outstanding elites from all over the country, it seems to be a coveted job. The "wolf nature" emphasized in Huawei's culture is always talked about by people.

But, can a person who doesn’t want to be a wolf never become a hero? The following is what a female master's degree in science and engineering who left Huawei after eight years had to say.

Remarks from a female master of science and engineering who left Huawei after eight years:

"My story with Huawei"

In October a year ago, I left Huawei , neither salty nor bland. In October this year, the husband who joined me also left, and mixed feelings surged in my heart extremely fiercely.

In the past year, I still call Huawei our company because I am still a Huawei family member, my life is still filled with the familiar flavor of Huawei, and I still have the opportunity to stroll around the beautiful campus of Shanghai Research Institute. But from now on, it really has nothing to do with this place. So I picked up my pen and sorted out my emotions at this moment and my previous experiences at Huawei, and kept them as souvenirs.

01 Graduation

Every Huawei person has had this feeling: when someone around you leaves, you can’t help but ask yourself, when will it be me?

Yes, Huawei is just another university to us. Every year, a large number of young people come to join us, refine themselves into spirits, or return to society after abandoning their martial arts. We call it " Graduated." My schooling lasted for eight and a half years, I was transferred several times in the R&D department, my overall grade was B, and I was a decent and honest student.

When my supervisor asked me why I left, I said it was because I felt uneasy. This is the truth.

Bai Yansong said that without peace, there will be no happiness.

Bai Yansong said that without peace, there will be no happiness.

I am definitely experiencing a blunted sense of happiness. Because the heart is not peaceful, the mind wanders when working, and the feeling is floating. There is no foundation, no nutrition, no enthusiasm, only numbness and mechanical work day after day.

Why is it not peaceful?

Why is it not peaceful?

External Cause 1: Curiosity killed the cat

After I came out of school, I plunged into the abyss of Huawei and never looked up at the road for so many years. In the university of Huawei, the grassroots soldiers are like screws. They cultivate their own three-acre field under strict procedures and dare not slack off.

The company also provides a complete set of services like a personal nanny: canteens, convenience stores, gyms, air tickets, dormitories, contracted hotels, irregular cultural and sports activities, blind dates, internal rentals... ..

So the children who came out of the ivory tower changed to another ivory tower and continued to live, this time with rewards. Since Huawei opened its own winery, people visiting relatives and friends have switched to red wine, which is high-end and classy.

It is these seemingly good and convenient things that have created a group of "Huawei people" with special labels. While everyone is enjoying the convenience provided by the company to improve work efficiency, everyone is also looking forward to the colorful world outside. For those who have seen through it, Hi, this is enough, why waste your energy on it?

Everyone is a river of desire, with different depths. If you don’t experience it once, you will never be able to calm down. What is special about Huawei is that it is simple and closed. Of course, coupled with the fact that it takes up the vast majority of a person’s waking hours, this experience-rich life link is missing.

External Cause 2: Natural conflict between wolf and lamb

Huawei’s wolf nature is well known. There was a year when, when my blood was still young, I worked as a small supervisor, trying to transform myself into a wolf in order to get a pass for promotion.

After realizing that I couldn’t be ruthless, I bought various classic management books in an attempt to become an elegant wolf that behaves according to the rules of a civilized society. It is difficult to follow the path. After a while of tearing, he continued to be a lamb.

There is a famous rule among wolves: "Be patient, be ruthless, and get out." When you first join the wolf pack, your foundation is not stable, so you can only endure it.

Then there are two choices, either train yourself to become a more ferocious wolf, which is not only cruel to your opponents, but also to all links in the cooperation chain, but also to yourself; or get out. The three views are different and it is difficult to endure. Then get lost.

In my heart, Xiaoyang still prefers warmth and jade. She wants to enjoy flowers in spring and look at the moon in autumn, and a handful of red mud will please her body and mind.

Internal cause 1: Food and clothing, lustful thoughts.

Once, when I was having dinner with a client in the Philippines, the young man asked me to teach him how to speak Chinese. I asked: "What Chinese do you speak?" "Have enough food and clothing, and think about lust," he taught, pointing his finger at Jeff who was smiling evilly across from him. "Do you know what it means?" "It's just that when you have enough food and clothing, you start thinking about things you shouldn't think about." Correct answer!

When humans think, God laughs. But what else can I do after I have enough food and clothing and don’t want to have sex?

The thing I have been thinking about most in the past two years: If we continue at the current pace, what will my state be like in ten years? Looking at the older colleagues around me, they work endless overtime and cannot control their own time; they have bad tempers and are entangled in countless trivial incidents; they complain about the company after dinner, and then continue to suppress their work.

With my qualifications in this field, I can really foresee the future. This is not what I want to see for myself. If a moment of forbearance can be exchanged for sublimation in the future, maybe I can persist, but I can't see it.

When this thought flashed across my mind, I couldn’t calm down anymore: This is the legendary life that can be seen at a glance, and let the remaining good years continue to spin in circles?

Internal cause 2: The so-called incompatibility of body and mind.

There are always colleagues like this around me: when you talk to him about new technologies, his eyes light up. When he works, he is like a burning fireball, shining brightly. It makes people so envious. This is what is called doing what you love. You provide your own fuel, and there is no need for outsiders to fan the flames.

But I am not. It is becoming more and more clear to me that my talent is not here. From the bottom of my heart, I don’t love science first. I yearn for the farming life of “picking chrysanthemums under the eastern fence and leisurely discovering the southern mountains”.

Intuitively speaking, my love for words is far greater than numbers. This seed that I have been carefully burying has expanded rapidly in the past two years, and it feels like it is ready to come out. If it is not allowed to branch out, I am afraid it will cause internal injury.

So, I want to stop and look for that thing that can resurrect me with full blood and shine all the way. Many people say that the opportunity cost of giving up years of accumulation and starting over is too high, and it is also embarrassing at this age.

I have no confidence, so I can only serve chicken soup by myself: "Every day is the youngest day of the rest of my life" and "It is never too late to start life." You will never go back to the age of 28 when you can choose your life again, so just follow your heart, not to mention——

The past years are not meaningless. This is the most important stop in the journey of life. It solved the problem of food and clothing, exercised the ability to solve complex problems, looked at things macroscopically and microscopically, thought carefully, and withstood pressure. These are the basis of survival.