Reborn in 2011, 985 missing from two copies

Chapter 626: Great changes in colleges and universities, unexpected results
Outstanding students who pass the assessment of Xingyi Semiconductor are willing to take a leave of absence and directly start working at Xingyi Semiconductor, and the school has no control over it.

Moreover, starting from a master's degree while still in school, even if you take a leave of absence and cannot get a master's degree, at least you will have a bachelor's degree from a prestigious university.

This is enough to reduce students' worries.

In fact, if there are good job opportunities, many undergraduates will give up taking the postgraduate entrance examination and go directly to work.

After all, the purpose of postgraduate entrance examination is to find employment.

What’s more, things are different at different times.

Now Xingyi Semiconductor is just starting to develop and is short of people. The threshold is low and we are recruiting talents. A bachelor's degree is enough.

Three years later, when they finish their graduate studies, Xingyi Semiconductor may not be so short of people. By then, a master's degree will be useless and a PhD will be needed!
As a result, a person who could enter Xingyi Semiconductor with an undergraduate degree could not get in after studying for a master's degree.

This is a very common occurrence.

That's what happened ten years later.

In his previous life, when Wang Yi graduated in 2015, not many people took the postgraduate entrance examination.

At that time, opportunities were everywhere. In Jeju, anyone with a bachelor's degree could get a job in R&D at high-quality companies such as Inspur, Sinotruk, and Qilu Pharmaceutical.

But after a few years, not to mention an ordinary undergraduate degree, even an ordinary master's degree is not enough.

For example, at Qilu Pharmaceutical, undergraduates with a pharmacy degree in 2015 could enter R&D positions, but in 2020, even those with a PhD from a 985 university had to work in the workshop.

So, after graduating from Lu University with a Ph.D., he entered the workshop and saw that his former undergraduate classmates had become his unattainable superiors!
When the speed of academic advancement cannot keep up with the speed of academic depreciation, all efforts will often be in vain.

There is no place to seek justice.

The same is true of Xingyi Semiconductor today.

Giving up on postgraduate studies and joining Xingyi Semiconductor now will provide better development than graduating from graduate school or even doctorate a few years later.

By then, those who are not PhDs from top 985 universities may not even have the chance to get in.

There is no way. Xingyi Semiconductor has been short of people in recent years, but it will not always be short of people.

What's more, if you continue to study in school, you will only learn outdated processes that are decades outdated.

But as long as you enter the seed program, you can not only become a long-term employee of Xingyi Semiconductor, but also have direct access to advanced processes.

The starting point of dropping out of school and joining Xingyi Semiconductor is higher than the ending point of getting a Ph.D. in school!
There's no way, they're all outdated stuff. No matter how much or how long you learn, they're still useless.

Even after entering a large semiconductor company, you still can’t do what you want. You have to start all over again!

In addition, the Xingyi Semiconductor Seed Program has a bright future and generous remuneration, and its starting point exceeds the ultimate expectations of many students. It is estimated that most of the students on campus will be tempted!
I can't stand such temptation at all.

If he passes the assessment of Xingyi Semiconductor, it goes without saying that he will most likely drop out of school and sign a contract to join Xingyi Semiconductor and start a brilliant life!
By then, if the students are willing to drop out and work directly at Xingyi Semiconductor, the school will have no way to stop them.

What's more, the school knows which side will develop better and will not restrict the students' future.

Wang Yi continued: "The recruitment for the seed program has started quickly, and the threshold has been relaxed. Undergraduates are enough. As long as you have strong abilities, are reliable, and pass the assessment, you can sign a contract directly and join the Xingyi Semiconductor Seed Program."

"In this way, we can train them for about a year and become first-class engineers, helping senior mid-level and senior engineers, learning and training them quickly!"

This is Wang Yi’s entire plan.

Assess and screen high-quality talents, no matter they are graduates or students, as long as they are willing to come and have strong abilities, we will sign them all.

After one year of training, we will use the million-dollar incentive plan to quickly bring up outstanding students and turn them into independent advanced process engineers!
These twenty-something year old top students from prestigious universities are at the peak of their lives. They are smart, learn quickly, are energetic, and are able to endure and work hard. They are undoubtedly good candidates for research and development.

If we wait until they are 35 or 40 years old to train them, they will either become old foxes who do not work hard or even only think about forming cliques. That's it, they will never achieve anything great.

Others have reached the age of forty and are still conscientious and hardworking, but at this age, their physical fitness is not as good as before, and they are no longer able to continue to tackle the problems.

There is nothing we can do about this.

Wang Yi proposed a million-dollar incentive plan to bring in new employees, which is also a new way out for older engineers.

At TSMC, most engineers are between 30 and 40 years old.

At this stage, they are all backbones, experienced and able to work hard to overcome difficulties.

But once you are over 40, it’s a completely different story.

Older engineers over 40 are old and not as healthy as before. It is too difficult for them to continue to work late into the night on the front line to tackle technical problems.

But I have the experience and the ability. Even if I can't work as hard as I did in my twenties or thirties, I can take some easier R&D positions and focus on training young engineers.

After all, as young engineers grow up, old engineers can also get promotion rewards of more than one million.

The growth speed with someone to guide and without someone to guide are two completely different dimensions.

Such a strategy provides better career prospects for older engineers and faster development for younger engineers, and will also allow Xingyi Semiconductor's talent pool to expand in the shortest possible time.

It can be said to be the best of all worlds.

Moreover, most of the people trained are young and experienced engineers, who can work efficiently for Xingyi Semiconductor for more than ten years!
this point is very important.

The value of a 28-year-old level 38 engineer is far greater than that of a -year-old level engineer.

The former can easily be promoted to level 7 engineer before the age of 33, and reach level 8 or even level 9 engineer around the age of 38.

It is almost unrealistic for the latter to get promoted further. Those who can achieve remarkable results at such an old age like Mr. Hu are rare.

On the contrary, most engineers over 40 years old have taken the initiative to apply to leave their key R&D positions and move to ordinary R&D positions. In a few years, they will have to occupy second-tier positions.

There is nothing we can do about this.

At that time, concentrating on training apprentices or becoming a lecturer at a university will also be a way out.

Especially in a few years, Wang Yi also plans to build a Xingyi University.

Specialized in cultivating professional core talents in cutting-edge fields such as semiconductors, AI, and intelligent driving.

There is no way. Universities are seriously out of touch with these aspects. The professors themselves don’t know how to do it and don’t understand it, let alone teach students. They can only read out old lecture notes and waste students’ time.

Therefore, Xingyi Technology can only cultivate itself.

But the matter of Xingyi University also needs to be advanced slowly.

This year, we will start with industry-university integration and promote the seed program to school students. We will directly sign high-quality school students to join Xingyi Semiconductor and use the million-dollar incentive plan to train new students.

In this way, by next year, there will be a large number of outstanding first-level engineers and second-level engineers.

These top students have strong learning abilities, and their master teaches them everything he knows in order to motivate them to win a million. Within a year, many of them can grow into first-level engineers or even second-level engineers.

Moreover, they are first- and second-level engineers who have been exposed to 28-nanometer and even 14-nanometer advanced processes!

These people are just junior engineers at Xingyi Semiconductor, but they would be treasures if they were put in SMIC!
There is no way. Only a few engineers at SMIC have experience with 28nm process, and almost none have experience with 14nm process.

Of course, for those who sign the seed program, Xingyi Technology will sign a long-term contract, provide generous compensation and promising training strategies, but they must also sign a confidentiality agreement and a non-compete agreement.

Once you leave the job due to breach of contract, you will need to pay huge compensation and liquidated damages.

Training is priceless!

What's more, Xingyi Semiconductor uses senior engineers with advanced processes to provide all-round training, teaching them the 28nm, 14nm, and even 10nm process theory systems.

These are priceless.

Once you breach the contract and leave, you will have to pay a huge amount of compensation.

Wang Yi would not sit idly by and watch the advanced process engineers whom he had invested huge amounts of money, energy, manpower and material resources to train turn around and defect to the enemy and become competitors.

No one agreed to such a thing.

To put it bluntly, the contract for the seed program is a long-term indenture of 10 to 15 years.

Once the contract is signed, Xingyi Semiconductor will provide the best training, high compensation, brilliant growth prospects and platform for the next decade or so, so that employees can live a worry-free life for the rest of their lives.

But the employees are also completely locked in, and it is difficult for them to change jobs, and the sky-high penalty for breach of contract is not just talk.

As for some people who have entered the seed program, it is very difficult for them to just lie down and give up.

Within Xingyi Semiconductor, engineers are divided into levels one to nine, and each level has clear divisions and assessment standards, as well as equal treatment.

Employees in the seed program grow quickly, and their corresponding treatment will continue to increase with each level of assessment they pass.

If he grows slowly, while other people in the same batch have become level 5 engineers and received the treatment of level 5 engineers, he will still be stuck at level 1 engineer and can only receive the treatment of level 1 engineers.

There's nothing I can do. I didn't work hard enough and I can't blame anyone else for failing the second-level assessment.

After the meeting, the entire Xingyi Semiconductor began to change rapidly.

Mr. Hu immediately arranged people to promote a million-dollar incentive plan to bring in new employees.

There are four hundred senior engineers in advanced processes, each of whom is supervised by one junior engineer and one intern engineer.

The work that used to be done by oneself can now be handed over to junior engineers and trainee engineers.

Not only does it improve efficiency, but it can also help junior engineers and trainee engineers grow. When apprentices are subsequently promoted, they can also receive an additional million-dollar bonus.

The senior engineers who previously kept things secret and only let their apprentices do basic chores, have now begun to teach their apprentices everything they know, and even feel sorry for their apprentices and make strict demands on them.

He wished his apprentice could be promoted as soon as possible so that he could get a million-dollar reward.

As a result, the entire Xingyi Semiconductor has exploded with a new atmosphere, with the old bringing in the new and the company thriving.

What did not disappoint Wang Yi was that Beihang University directly approved the production-research integration model of the Xingyi Class and was just waiting for approval from higher authorities to expand enrollment.

Similarly, good news came from Lu University, which fully supports the integration of industry and research in the Xingyi Class.

Song Si Ning's voice on the phone was full of joy: "Chairman, I am glad to have accomplished your mission."

"Luda ​​fully supports the Xingyi Class and will start recruiting students this year. It has also applied for an expansion plan. If it can expand, that would be great. If it can't, Luda will directly allocate half of its existing semiconductor enrollment quota to the Xingyi Class!"

"Is there such a scene at Lu University?" Wang Yi was surprised.

Enrollment starts this year!
If there are expansion quotas, they will be given directly. If there are no expansion quotas, half of the original quota will be allocated to the Xingyi class! This result was completely beyond Wang Yi's expectations. It was too unexpected.

Luda's attitude can only be full of sincerity.

"Of course, the president said that Lu Da will support whatever President Wang wants to do. Moreover, the combination of industry and academia is in line with the development direction, and it can also force Lu Da's semiconductor-related colleges to upgrade their teaching theories!" Song Sining said with a smile.

Wang Yi was surprised again: "The president of Lu University seems to be a bit indifferent to the life and death of the School of Integrated Circuits. But I like it."

This approach of directly giving half of the students to the Xingyi class will force traditional majors to upgrade, and will definitely force old professors of related majors who do not understand advanced processes to leave, and then hire new professors who are familiar with advanced processes. It can be said that this does not care about the life or death of the old professors.

However, it will be of great benefit to the upgrading of Lu University's teaching system and students' employment and development.

It can be said that a group of outdated old professors were sacrificed to make Luda’s semiconductors and students successful!

Boundless merit!

"Thank the president of Luda University for me. The industry-university integration will start from Luda University as one of the key pilot projects."

"Okay, Chairman."

Wang Yi knew that Beihang University Semiconductor had a space mission and could not give up half of the places, so it could only expand enrollment.

However, LuDa Semiconductor did not do so. It directly gave up half of its quota and took the initiative to revolutionize traditional semiconductors. It can only be said that it has courage.

Since the other party has the courage, Wang Yi will also fully support him.

Needless to say, in a few years, Lu Da's traditional semiconductor major will also make rapid progress and upgrade its advanced process system.

This will not be difficult to accomplish as long as the school is determined to reform. They can simply recruit engineers with experience in advanced processes to serve as lecturers and professors.

Especially those engineers in their forties who have retired from the front line and are experienced, it will be no problem for them to become teachers at universities.

Even veteran engineers from Samsung, TSMC, and Intel were happy to do so.

Firstly, university professors have high social status and decent jobs, especially professors from 985 and 211 universities, whose status bonus is extraordinary.

Secondly, teaching and educating, and having students all over the world, is the social aspiration of many people, especially outstanding talents who often have such sentiments.

Thirdly, after working in a large semiconductor company for many years, I was no longer short of money, but my health could not take it.

Becoming a professor in a university may have average pay, but the work is easy and respectable, which fully meets the needs of these old engineers who want to retire to the second line.

Fourth, the non-compete clauses of companies such as TSMC, Samsung, and Intel will restrict going to other semiconductor companies, but will not restrict going to universities to teach.

But unfortunately, many schools can do this but are unwilling to do so.

After all, once this is done, it will be a devastating blow to the traditional semiconductor major on campus, or even uproot it!
The interests behind this are too huge.

Without sufficient courage, it will be difficult to move forward.

Wang Yi really admired the courage of the current president of Lu University.

At the same time, it also gave Wang Yi a new idea. It was a bit difficult to start from Beihang University and other schools. These schools were already responsible for the semiconductor tasks in the village and could not innovate.

But if you start from a 985 university like Shandong University, it will be easy.

This type of 985 does not have semiconductor tasks. As long as the school is willing to innovate and seek development, it can completely push forward half of the reforms like Shandong University, create Xingyi classes, and force the remaining half of the traditional classes to innovate and upgrade.

In this way, even if something does not pass the approval, half of the enrollment places can be used to create the Xingyi Class.

That's safe.

Wang Yi said decisively: "Si Ning, next, promote this model in other 985 and 211 universities to see if there are other schools that are as bold as Luda."

Song Si Ning understood what Wang Yi meant: "Okay, it's a little difficult to promote reforms in the top 985 universities, but it's easier for other 985 universities. Let's start with these."

The more prestigious the school, the greater the resistance to the advancement of the Xingyi Class.

But it is easier for the second and third tier 985 universities.

The semiconductor majors of these schools were not outstanding to begin with, but now that they have reformed, they have the hope of overtaking the top semiconductor schools. Naturally, they are willing to reform, even go all in.

At the same time, a heated debate was held in a confidential place:

"The Xingyi Class proposed by Xingyi Semiconductor can be promoted, but it must be promoted in an orderly manner and the pace and scale must be controlled."

"That's right. If we push forward too fast, the traditional semiconductor majors and colleges will collapse and become a mess!"

"Yes, this will have a huge impact. It is equivalent to a complete negation of everything in the past. How should we place those previous semiconductor professors? How should we deal with them in the future? How should we adjust the subsequent courses and teaching for students who have already learned half of the course? These are all problems."

"That's right, we better be cautious, otherwise it will easily lead to big trouble!"

Director Qin decisively retorted: "Take it slow? How long? One year? Two years?"

"If it's just one or two years, then if we do a comprehensive reform after one or two years, there will still be a big mess."

"If we can stabilize the system for four years, or even just one class, it will be more stable. But if so many students are still learning outdated processes for four years, what's the point?"

“By then, not only will these students have wasted four years, but our mainland semiconductor training system will have also wasted four years!”

“This is an even greater loss!”

"This..." Everyone was speechless for a moment.

Someone else said, "Even so, we have to proceed steadily, especially since Wang Yi still wants to recruit students who are still on campus, which will have a greater impact. We have to proceed steadily."

"What the hell! The situation is urgent. TSMC and Samsung have already started the research and development competition of 10nm process, and we are still learning 90nm and 120nm process. Are you kidding me?"

"That is, even if there is temporary chaos, comprehensive reform is necessary."

"A short pain is worse than a long one. If you don't make a decision when you should, you will suffer the consequences."

……

After listening to everyone's words, we finally took a vote.

Fortunately, however, the majority of people supported the reform, and it won with a slightly smaller margin.

Afterwards, Director Qin immediately told Wang Yi the result:
"Good news. New instructions have been given for the integration of production and research at Xingyi Semiconductor."

"In principle, we support Xingyi Semiconductor and major universities to carry out industry-university integration and create Xingyi classes. The number of students enrolled in Xingyi classes shall not exceed the original enrollment plan for semiconductor-related majors and shall not occupy the original quota."

Hearing this, Wang Yi was delighted: "It will not take up the original quota, and we will expand the enrollment again. The expanded enrollment quota cannot exceed the original quota!"

“That’s great!”

The meaning is very simple. For example, the relevant majors of Beihang University originally had a total of 6 classes with 200 students.

We can now recruit an additional group of students to create the Xingyi class, and the number of additional students will not exceed 200.

In this way, six classes can be expanded at one time.

The same is true for other universities. If, like Shandong University, they are willing to divide the 200 places in traditional semiconductors into half of the Xingyi class, that would be 300 people!

This is a good thing.

"Director Qin, thank you for your support. With this policy, the development of Xingyi Semiconductor will have a bright future."

"Haha, the policy is supportive, but you have to handle how to operate it. Especially the cooperation with colleges and universities, your teaching staff must keep up."

"Don't worry, Director Qin. We at Xingyi Semiconductor have recruited many senior engineers over 40 years old. They are very experienced and are most suitable to be lecturers and teach advanced process theories."

Previously, Xingyi Semiconductor was short of staff and had been recruiting on a large scale.

TSMC and Samsung looked down upon these senior engineers in their forties, thinking they were no longer capable and discarded them.

But Xingyi Semiconductor was short of people, so it had to accept a lot of them.

But these people are indeed old, and they can't work as hard as the young engineers to tackle technical problems.

Before, we could only do ordinary research and development.

Now, we can transfer some of them to colleges and universities to serve as lecturers.

The rest continue to do general research and development, while also training apprentices and mentoring the new.

Afterwards, Wang Yi asked Jian Ziyan to transfer some personnel from the group to specifically connect with major universities and promote the integration of industry and academia.

At the same time, Xingyi Semiconductor also selected some senior engineers over the age of 40 to prepare handouts and serve as teachers in universities.

These people are not members of the 400-member task force, and their departure will not affect the current R&D work of Xingyi Semiconductor.

There is no other way. The 400 members of the task force are all under 40 years old and are able to work hard.

Many schools have actively welcomed this.

Not only are Beihang University and Shandong University progressing smoothly, but many other 985/211 universities are also making rapid progress.

The whole process went more smoothly than Wang Yi expected.

The main reason is that the ministry agreed to expand enrollment and not use the original quota, thus preserving the original semiconductor major.

But this still has a huge impact on traditional semiconductor majors. Many schools have begun to take the initiative to reform and have started to introduce senior engineers from large companies as lecturers, while dismissing outdated old professors.

When the government and enterprises made such statements, universities also understood the situation.

Moreover, other universities are actively promoting reforms and introducing advanced process education, but we have not reformed and continue to teach some outdated processes. Students do not agree with this, and it will be a problem for us to continue to recruit students next year. We can only reform passively.

To put it bluntly, in this situation, either all universities do not reform, or once some universities reform, other universities will have to follow suit.

There is nothing we can do about this.

Wang Yi was very surprised at the development of the situation.

I thought it was just an expansion of enrollment quotas, but I didn't expect that it would force universities to reform their existing semiconductor-related majors.

For a time, the advancement of advanced processes became the ZZ right.

The older engineers at TSMC, Samsung, and Intel who are unpopular and about to be laid off have also become popular talents that universities are vying for!
(End of this chapter)