Top of the Great Era

Chapter 1927 Personal outsourcing

Hastings didn't quite understand what Boss Zhou meant.

Isn't it a good thing to have more talents?
With fewer jobs and more talents, the company has more options. Under the market mechanism where supply exceeds demand, it can also greatly reduce the salary expenditure of employees.

But in actual operation, there will always be many accidents.

Especially the seemingly advanced loose management of Netflix.

Zhou Buqi said: "China and India, two countries with large populations, have trained too many computer engineers. Of course, the level of most of them is not very high. But in the Internet industry, except for a few businesses, most businesses have no What are too high-end technical requirements."

Hastings frowned, "So what?"

Zhou Buqi said: "Netflix's performance appraisal management system has very few requirements for employees. As long as employees complete the tasks assigned by the company, they can give employees the greatest freedom."

"That's right." Hastings nodded. "In my opinion, this is the real Silicon Valley culture that has been passed down, not the anti-Silicon Valley that the outside world says."

Zhou Buqi glanced at him, "There are too many computer practitioners in China and India. This is a market where the supply exceeds demand, and the jobs are far from meeting the market demand. There are two other points, that is, most Internet jobs require The technology is not high, and the salary in Silicon Valley is high enough.”

"what?"

Hastings was at a loss, still unable to understand what the legendary big boss meant.

The background has been laid out, and then it’s time to reveal the secret. Zhou Buqi said blankly: “If I am a programmer at Netflix, my monthly salary is 1 US dollars. At this time, I can Find an engineer in China and India, give him $2000 a month, and ask him to complete all the tasks I assign."

"hiss!"

Hastings gasped in surprise.

It seems that I never thought that such a game can be played in the Internet industry!

Yes, China and India are both populous countries, and they have trained too many computer talents.

For Netflix, most jobs are actually not that high-tech. How much technology can a video streaming platform have?
Then there is an opportunity to exploit loopholes.

If the company's management is very strict and all employees are asked to work in the company's office positions, this is actually easy to handle. Real-time supervision can be performed from front to back, left, and right, and the team leader will also conduct frequent inspections.

However, the loose management system of Netflix is ​​not very good.

This is a performance-oriented management system.

As long as employees complete their work tasks, they can do whatever they want.

In this way, employees can "outsource" their work to programmers in China and India, two populous countries. Due to the differences in national conditions and employment benefits, employees in the United States only need to spend part of their salary. Such "outsourcing" work can be done with a small part.

Transfer the work out, anyway, as long as the assigned tasks are completed.

As for who did it and how it was done...it doesn't matter, the company doesn't investigate at all.In this way, Netflix employees have huge system loopholes to exploit. They don’t have to do anything at ordinary times. They can enjoy life by eating, drinking, having fun, and even find a part-time job to earn more money.

As an employee of Netflix, he spent almost no time and energy for the company, which was outsourced.

This is too dangerous.

This Boss Zhou really is a capable person, with a sharp and unique vision, he immediately found the deadliest link in Netflix's culture!
Hastings felt his heart flutter.

Zhou Buqi said: "I don't know much about technology, but I also know that there are many loopholes in computer codes. If employees are not familiar with these codes, when an emergency requires code rewriting or bug fixes, There will be a crisis. There is a 12-hour time difference between China, India and the United States, which will definitely cause problems in the efficiency of emergency response.”

Hastings took a deep breath, and said in a deep voice: "There are more serious consequences. The company's employment is actually a process of cultivating talents. While employees can complete the work assigned by the company, personal abilities, vision and The awareness of the industry has grown. The cultivation of talents is the greater value.”

Zhou Buqi was rather happy. It seemed that he quickly realized the seriousness of the matter, "Yes, the cultivation of talents. Netflix employees outsourced their work to Chinese and Indian programmers, even if they completed the company's layout on time However, without the personal growth environment, the talent training system will be gone. In the short term, it may not be a big problem. But in the long run, this has threatened the excellence of Netflix’s organizational structure.”

Hastings looked solemn, "This is indeed an obvious flaw in Netflix's corporate system. I never thought of this. It's too dangerous."

Zhou Buqi said with a smile: "This is a big crisis, so far... the point I'm worried about hasn't happened yet, right?"

Hastings said in a deep voice: "I will start an investigation immediately!"

Zhou Buqi nodded, "I don't think this is a serious problem for the time being. The online collaborative office market has just started. But Netflix must be careful. As long as this loophole exists, there will definitely be problems in the future. This is Mo Fee's Law."

This is so true.

As Netflix becomes more and more successful, Netflix culture is also more and more respected. There are also many professional books explaining Netflix culture on the market for Internet entrepreneurs all over the world to learn from.

Then, more and more followers.

Technology giants including Microsoft, Google, Facebook, etc. are following up and trying to follow this more advanced management strategy full of respect.

Next, more and more disadvantages were exposed.

The most typical example is Twitter.

After Elon Musk acquired Twitter, he was really furious. He shot one after another and carried out drastic layoffs. The layoff ratio was as high as 75%.

The whole twitter is gone.

The reason why layoffs are so ruthless is that in addition to strategic needs such as business reorganization, there is also the fact that Twitter has been too deeply poisoned by the Netflix culture.

A product like Twitter really doesn’t have much technical content. Whether it’s product design or technical iteration, it’s far behind domestic Weibo.

Therefore, many programmers on Twitter have played this kind of outsourcing business, outsourcing the work indicators issued by the company to Chinese or Indian programmers, and letting them work instead of themselves.

Then, many uninformed people were stunned.

Promote these people as technologists.

They are so amazing!

The written code is really beautiful, and the work efficiency is really high.All kinds of difficult and miscellaneous diseases, as long as they are handed over to these people, they can always complete the tasks on time and on time, which is really excellent!
Unlike many normal employees, dilly-dallying always fails to complete tasks on time.

As everyone knows, these people may not have even written a line of code, and they are all outsourced to "experts" in China and India to work together remotely and secretly.

Laomei actually doesn't know much about such things.

It has been spread in the domestic industry for a long time, and an industry based on personal technology outsourcing has been formed.

From a domestic perspective, the workload deployed by American Internet companies to employees is really too low!
For some motivated and hard-working programmers in China, he may only need 2 hours to complete the task of the daily workload in the United States.

There is also a lot of money, and you can get an outsourcing fee of 2 to 3 at will.

Working 2 hours a day and earning 2 yuan a month, why not do it?
So many people usually shoot short videos at home, write about official accounts, or open a milk tea shop, or find a stable and easy job in a state-owned enterprise. Just use their free time to pick up an outsourcing job from the United States.

Kill two birds with one stone.

Musk is a pragmatist. His philosophy is to strive to get rich, not to distribute it.He admires the domestic Internet model very much, and often humbly asks domestic Internet companies for advice. He is very familiar with this kind of gray outsourcing industry.

Detested.

So after the acquisition of Twitter, the first thing to do is to lay off a large number of employees, and fire all the non-working vampires who are attached to Twitter.

With the development of globalization, the emergence of digital office, and the increasing popularity of collaborative office software, more and more jobs can break through the limitations of space and geography.

At first it was a big company, then it was a small company, and finally it has developed into an individual.

A work task issued in San Francisco can be synchronized to Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen in real time, and then rely on the online collaborative office mode to complete the collaborative cooperation from the details across thousands of rivers and mountains to the modification of a code symbol.

Everything has advantages and disadvantages.

Technology has created better office conditions for the world, and many people will take advantage of the new situation.This is definitely not possible, this is gray production, even suspected of breaking the law, and suspected of leaking company secrets without authorization.

Hastings asked: "Netflix's success is inseparable from the institutional advantages of Netflix's culture, which helped Netflix find the most outstanding talents, allowing Netflix to compete with big companies for talents when it was very weak. Strength."

Zhou Buqi heard the worry in his tone, and comforted him: "I didn't ask you to give up the Netflix culture. Any system has its advantages and disadvantages. What Netflix has to do is to take advantage of this system and Find ways to close the loopholes that may arise.”

Hastings pondered and said: "The direction of LBS is very popular now, and we can make some defenses based on this function."

LBS is a service around geographic location.

Can obtain personal geographic location.

If an employee is in Silicon Valley, but finds that his account is logged in in countries such as China and India, or his collaborative office software is connected with China and India, this is a one-shot.

Zhou Buqi said: "It's still the same sentence, streaming media is actually not technically difficult. The cost of employing people in Silicon Valley is too high, and it can be imagined that it will become higher and higher in the future. This is not cost-effective."

Hastings heard what he meant, and said in a deep voice: "Indeed, rather than letting employees transfer their business individually, it is better to promote it at the company level."

Zhou Buqi was very happy, and said with a smile, "Good advice!"

Hastings said embarrassingly: "But I don't have much contact with those streaming media platforms in China."

With the face of the big boss, India automatically gave up.

Zhou Buqi said easily: "It's okay, you know about Youku, right? This is a company invested by Ziweixing. It has been listed in the United States. It is now the streaming media platform with the highest market value in our country. From a technical point of view , There are too many talents engaged in the streaming media industry in China, and you don’t need to worry about technology, products and business models.”

Hastings said: "Okay, then I will discuss with the team that it is necessary to transfer part of the business to China and open a branch."

Zhou Buqi smiled and said: "I know you are worried, and I can tell you clearly that there is no need! When Hulu was first established, the first thing we did was to build a branch in our country, which is next to Ziweixing headquarters. , in the Tsinghua Science and Technology Park. Online collaborative office will be a major trend in the Internet industry, which is enough to solve most of the business needs. The rest of the complicated problems can be solved at the Netflix headquarters.”

Hastings looked embarrassed and said: "Netflix... Can Netflix launch a formal platform in China?"

"Impossible." Zhou Buqi waved his hand, completely cutting off his thoughts, "From regulation to market, from copyright to the general environment, Netflix's model is not suitable."

On Netflix’s side, you can shoot whatever you want, and hang it up after the shooting, which is accessible all over the world.This is not the case in China. Film and television works must be reviewed and approved before they can be released online.

Most of the content on Netflix is ​​difficult to broadcast in China.

And there's the business model.

Netflix does not have a free version. It is a streaming media platform that relies entirely on membership. The membership fee is too high, and it does not conform to the domestic habit of watching dramas for free.

Then there are a large number of competitors such as Youku, Tudou, iQiyi, Penguin Video, Sohu Video, LeTV, Baofeng, etc... The competition in the domestic market is fierce at the universe level. Entering the domestic Red Sea market, it is impossible to compete with these domestic competitors.

Hastings said: "If the platform cannot be launched, then opening a branch in the past can only be business research and development."

Zhou Buqi said: "Research and development is enough. The online collaborative office model can break this spatial barrier. Hulu has been doing it for several years, and the effect is not very good? The more core business content can be placed in the R&D center here in Silicon Valley.”

"Ah."

Hastings nodded, intending to carry out the plan.

The loopholes in that system are really scary.

Be sure to start in advance and block in advance.

Zhou Buqi went on to say: "Netflix wants to become a streaming media platform with multinational operations, especially copyright operations. Silicon Valley has a geographical disadvantage. It might as well put the R&D center in Silicon Valley and the business center in New York. You can see Looking at the model of Ziweixing Global, the film production companies are all in Los Angeles, but the headquarters of the distribution company is in New York."

Hastings laughed. "It's a big plan."

Zhou Buqi took a deep look at him, "The market value of Netflix is ​​getting higher and higher...By the way, when will "House of Cards" be launched?"

"At the end of the year, it will definitely be launched this year." Hastings looked high-spirited, "This is Netflix's first self-produced drama, and it is one of the most important tasks in the second half of the year."

Zhou Buqi said: "It is conceivable that after "House of Cards" is launched, Netflix will be further recognized by the capital market. You have to have a psychological expectation that Netflix is ​​developing in the direction of a technology giant. Netflix Fei is no longer a small company. If Netflix wants to become a giant company, you must first have a mental preparation to become an industry giant. Crouching in this area of ​​the Bay Area obviously cannot support the courage and size of a technology giant. Next, Netflix Fei should work with Ziweixing to lay out the New York market."

(End of this chapter)