"Okay! Good time!"
Chen Zifan didn't expect to be able to recruit five main engineers so easily. It's understandable that engineers from Bird...Meizu...these two companies don't want to stay. Meizu is okay, the core engineers will not leave.
But Bird is different. Although Bird has already sold tens of millions of units in 2003, their profitability has always been a problem. The profit of a single mobile phone is too low, and the investment in publicity and shipping channels is high.
Some excellent engineers also went to Bird for the reputation of being the "No. 1 domestically produced product". After arriving, they discovered that it was completely different from what they imagined. The technology department had very little funding.
The salary offered was not sincere enough, and there was no good place to change jobs. They had also learned about Stardust Technology during this period, and there were almost no negative comments in Haicheng.
The newly launched product is very competitive. Unfortunately, it is currently only available in Haicheng. People in cities far away can only look at this phone online. But how many people can access the Internet regularly these days?
"If you ask me, Stardust Technology should just advertise on TV like Bird!"
"Having said that, we have been in Bird for two years. You don't know how expensive TV advertising is, especially the prime time slot in the evening. It's so..."
"I mean, after all, this is our new company~ I definitely hope he will be better..."
"well…"
Xie Shuhao, Liu Yu, and Zhang Xuxiao are the main engineers who are preparing to switch jobs from the Waveguide Technology Department to Stardust Technology. People only see how much they earn as programmers, but they don't see the pain involved.
Endless overtime, endless coding, endless bug fixes... After joining Bird, they originally thought that their work would be easier and their monthly salary would be higher in a big company, but...
Who would have thought that a programmer who is not responsible for writing code would actually work part-time as an accountant? work overtime? Sorry, they never get off work normally~
I have to stay up all night at least twice a week, just living in the company. Obviously, the R&D investment of Waveguide is not high, and the investment of software engineers is even less, but there is still unfinished work...
But who has it easy?
At first, they did not dare to take risks when they received the invitation letter from Stardust Technology's Human Resources Department. However, Stardust Technology did not follow the rules and directly issued a document. As long as they agreed, they would receive a month's salary.
They also hesitated. The salary offered by Stardust Technology is more than twice that of Bird. The contract content in the document may be a bit harsh, but it cannot stand up to the high salary and various benefits...
As for the "voluntary overtime principle" mentioned by the Stardust Technology Human Resources Department, they don't believe it at all. What is voluntary or not? When the time comes, "overtime is obligatory" and "the company should be regarded as one's own home."
However, after arriving at Stardust Technology, they discovered that this was not the case at all~
"What! You don't have to work overtime?"
"Are you kidding? You really don't have to work overtime? Oh my god! Wouldn't that be great!"
"This is the right time! Whoever wants to work overtime can do it! Anyway, I don't want to!"
"right!"
The member of the personnel department in charge of recruitment looked at the battered waveguide engineer and the Meizu engineer looking at each other with a smile and said: "Technicians like you get double wages for overtime work..."
"..."
“Double it during the holidays!”
"???"
“The canteen is free and there are staff dormitories~”
"!!!"
Xie Shuhao immediately took off his wig, pointed at his hair and said: "Thank you for always loving work! I never arrive late and leave early! I am willing to devote my full blood to Stardust Technology!"
"..."
In the end, the five people were arranged to the core area of Stardust Factory. Since the Stardust Network headquarters has not yet been built, they can only be temporarily arranged to the core area, which will take about 2 to 3 months.
The same goes for Stardust Express. The difference is that the Stardust Express headquarters is placed near the warehouse in the factory's production area, making it easier to ship directly from the factory.
When Chen Jianjun founded Xinghua Electronics Factory, there were only a few tin houses with cement asbestos tile roofs. The winters were cold and the summers were hot, so employees suffered in every season.
But now, earth-shaking changes have taken place. Stardust Technology is increasing production capacity while building infrastructure. Not to mention 1,000 employees, even 3,000 employees can be arranged.
However, expansion too fast can easily lead to management chaos and is also a burden, so Chen Zifan only recruits a few hundred people at a time, and then he can slowly expand the scope and number of people he recruits.
The progress of Stardust Network/Express is what Chen Zifan is currently most concerned about, especially Stardust Network. After the five main engineers joined the company, he specially asked five people to come up with several written entry examination questions.
The difficulty is very high, but that doesn’t matter. If you can score 60 points, you can enter the interview stage. Just like the postgraduate entrance examination, as long as you pass the written examination, the interview questions will not be big, unless you commit suicide and perform tricks...
The first batch of recruitment mainly targets engineers majoring in computer science in Haicheng and surrounding cities, including fresh graduates and interns, including many students from the computer department of Haicheng University.
It's quite interesting to say that those students who used to scold Stardust Technology every day as =entering the electronics factory disappeared. Not only did they not mention the electronics factory, they also submitted their resumes to prepare to participate in the Stardust Network written examination.
As you can imagine, none of the first batch of students who came to take the written exam passed. They went back and continued to curse: "Who can do such a difficult question? I think the high salary is just a cover..."
"Yes! He deliberately created problems to embarrass us! In fact, I'm afraid all the positions have been reserved!"
"yes…"
Of course, there are also normal students. Haicheng University is not a bad undergraduate program anyway, and there are still some outstanding students. Chen Zifan found three students from Haicheng University in the passing list.
"Shao En, He Wenxing, An He... huh? Girls? Do you mean peace and quiet, good luck? Hiss... this result?" Chen Zifan was a little confused, did he just pass 60 points?
However, this question is extremely difficult. If you can pass the written test with a score of 60, it will be enough. If you train a little to become a basic engineer, it will be no problem. What Chen Zifan doesn't know is that Anhe only took the question with a score of 60...
At the same time, at Haicheng University, An He was sharing what happened today with Bai Xianning: "Yun'er, I went to Stardust Technology today. This company... feels a bit strange to me..."
An He organized his words a little, but still couldn't explain clearly: "I can't describe it, it's just that... the employees of Stardust Technology make me feel a bit unreal, a bit too happy..."
"hapiness?"
Bai Xianning was startled for a moment, and An He nodded vigorously and said: "Yes! Happy! Or relaxed! The person in charge who received us is also very nice and patient. I feel like he is a person who loves his work~"
"Isn't this normal?"
"What's normal? It's not surprising that an employee loves their job, and it's not surprising that some employees love their job. But if every employee loves their job, the cohesion of the company will be terrible!"
"Is that so? I can't see it, but you actually understand these things~"
"Have you forgotten what my dad's employees looked like when we went to his company?"
Bai Xianning thought about it carefully, but couldn't think of a reason. She had no choice but to say: "I can't remember, but you should have passed the written test, right? Are you going to work at Stardust Technology?"
"No!" An He shook his head without hesitation, then clenched his fist and waved, saying with high spirits: "I want to join a game company! I will definitely make the best game in the future!"
"Yeah, I believe you!"
"..."
——
At this time, Chen Zifan didn't know that someone was using Stardust Technology as an experience package. He had just handed over some data of "Chen OS" to the main engineer in the core area of Stardust Factory, and made his request:
"This is the operating system of Stardust Technology: Dust OS. I hope you can..."
Xie Shuhao, Liu Yu, Zhang Xuxiao and others were a little confused at first, what? operating system? Looking at the picture that appeared on the computer screen next to him and Chen Zifan's introduction, I was immediately dumbfounded.
"Fuck! What is this?"
"Holy crap! Mr. Chen! It's amazing! Who wrote this code! It's so damn perfect!"
"...I always thought I was a pretty good programmer, but when compared with him..."
"No wonder you have to sign a confidentiality agreement."
"Don't dare to change it randomly..."
Chen Zifan: "???"
He could only say that this was done by another project team of Stardust Technology, but the other project team had more important tasks to do, so the development of the operating system was left to Stardust Network.
After some communication, these engineers finally calmed down and began to listen carefully to Chen Zifan's request: "Efficient, concise, in line with human intuition, and develop applications based on this..."
Translated, it means making good interfaces and animations while ensuring the smoothness of "Chen OS", and then developing native applications based on "Chen OS", such as clocks, calendars, Stardust applications...
The last one is the key point. Stardust App is an app store, and the role of the app store goes without saying. It is the main weapon to end the era of feature phones, and it is also the killer weapon of Apple 3GS.
Unlike Stardust Technology, although Apple has not yet launched the first-generation iPhone, they still have an iPod product line. The first-generation iPod nano released by Apple this year is a global hit.
Jobs knew that iPods would be integrated into mobile phones in the future, so he did not hesitate to enter the mobile phone industry. At this time, Nokia did not take Apple's iPod products seriously~
They even openly ridiculed the iPod in the N95 advertisement, meaning "Apple is suppressed by me". In addition, they also have similar advertisements such as "I only have one thing in my pocket".
If Chen Zifan wants to lead Stardust Technology to conquer the mobile phone market, he must come up with more powerful products before Apple and Android. It would be even better if he could overturn brands such as Nokia.
As for the lack of applications in the initial Stardust app...what does that matter? Even if there are relatively few applications that can be downloaded in the early stage, it will be okay, everyone can accept it, and Stardust Network can develop its own applications.
"Dust OS" is equivalent to a perfect foundation. It is not a problem to develop some simple applications on this basis. After Stardust products are launched on the market, third-party software companies will naturally join.
The five main engineers also understood Chen Zifan's requirements. They alone would definitely not be enough, but there was nothing they could do for the time being. The Human Resources Department was still arranging interviews for new employees, so they could only do it themselves first.
After arranging part of the tasks of "Chen OS", the next problem Chen Zifan needs to solve is the next two products of "Hai". He plans to learn from a company with similar concepts to Stardust Technology~
“Don’t give in, OnePlus!”
"Three-stage button!"
A company that pursues "quality and design" and "only makes high-quality products" but later "doesn't pay attention to it". The three-stage button is one of OnePlus's classic designs, but it is a pity that OnePlus abandoned it.
Leaving aside the specific reasons for now, Chen Zifan needs such a design to build his new product. With the current hardware level of Stardust Technology, it is not difficult to build a "smart machine".
"Customized frosted glass back cover, metal middle frame, curved transition, glass cover, fully fitted retina screen, large battery to ensure lightweight body, rear single camera, front camera... no front camera..."
In addition, the physical buttons on the front must be cancelled. Even Chen Zifan does not plan to use the home button. He is very confident in the smoothness and stability of "Chen OS" and is not worried about problems such as stuck.
In addition, there is no front camera, so there is only one earpiece on the front of the phone. The earpiece is flattened, beautified, and hidden in the black border above the screen. The upper and lower black borders are symmetrical and narrow on the left and right.
A "full-screen mobile phone" similar to "OnePlus 1", but smaller overall, with rounder corner transitions, a higher front screen-to-body ratio, and a better hand feel with side arc transitions was designed.
This product is directly aimed at the "smartphone" market. Chen Zifan is not going to do anything step-by-step. He will have to fight hard against companies like Nokia and Apple.
If it is really produced, then Stardust Technology can engage in the "accessories industry". Official mobile phone cases and tempered films are also a profit point and can also drive Stardust's after-sales development.
The second product is still a functional phone, but it uses a bolder design, derived from the Nokia Twist7705, or a more understandable name: Rouge Box phone.
One of Stardust Technology's partners: Tianyu has also used this design, but the overall workmanship, functionality, and user experience are much worse than Nokia's. They are not at the same level at all.
In Chen Zifan's hands, he will only make this phone more perfect and impeccable. Although it is also an eccentric model like "Hai", this phone will only be more competitive.
In addition, he is also planning to take out the Bluetooth headset technology from "Hai" and make a separate Bluetooth headset with a storage and charging compartment. By the way, he will also cancel the 3.5mm headphone jack on the new product...
"It's good to make money~it's not shabby!"
Strictly speaking, it is not called cancelled, because the 3.5mm headphone jack is not yet popular.
As the saying goes, flaws outweigh advantages. Before the 3.5mm headphone jack was fully popularized, there was no headphone jack at all. Not only could it promote a wave of Bluetooth headsets, but consumers would have nothing to say, and other manufacturers did not have headphone holes!
There isn’t one on the “sea” either! If you really can't stand it, you can buy "Hai" and bring your own Bluetooth headphones, so you don't have to worry about losing them when you go out...
It's completely killing two birds with one stone. Also, the product "Hai" alone is a bit monotonous. When there are more products, the expansion of Stardust Direct Store will be much smoother and the store will not look so empty.
