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Chapter 176 First Day on the Job (4000 words)
Liu Wenxiao felt a little regretful the next day after signing the labor contract.

Why did I end up rejecting ByteDance's offer and instead join such an unknown small company?
The company had just been established less than two months ago, and apart from the part-time student who looked tall and strong and asked some fairly competent questions during the interview, the few other employees in the company did not seem to have very good technical skills.

Moreover, the salary offered by this small company is only half of that of Byte, which means I can only earn 25,000 yuan per month. Am I possessed by the devil?
Beauty is misleading!
However, the girl named Shen Shuyao is really beautiful, and she looks good when she smiles.

Damn it, it was this smile that made me sign the labor contract without thinking!
Liu Wenxiao is an undergraduate from Haipu Jiaotong University and a graduate student from Cheng Zhou. He is relatively strong in algorithms and deep learning. Although he has not published many papers, his contributions on GitHub are considerable. He is very enthusiastic about maintaining various projects and he also has a project with more than 300 stars.

Recently, ByteDance has been recruiting talents in algorithms and deep learning.

In addition to poaching people from Qianxun, they also recruit talents in deep learning from around the world, offering annual salaries of up to one million dollars.

Limited to those under 35 years old.

Liu Wenxiao's level is not low. After several rounds of interviews, he successfully got the offer from ByteDance. He originally wanted to start the job, but he didn't expect that he would be obsessed and join such a small company.

Liu Wenxiao decided to just go for one day and then find an excuse to resign.

Fortunately, ByteDance’s offer has not expired yet, so it’s not too late to regret.

"What a shabby office building. I guess it's rented from the National University."

Liu Wenxiao rode a Mobike and stopped at the entrance of Youzi Technology. He looked at the gray two-story building in front of him and muttered something.

"Yu Kai, readjust the parameters of the fully connected layer. We are running a dynamic graph now, and the data noise is too strong."

"Wang Jiawei, is the compilation complete? Is it OK? Okay, then let's run it again."

A man in his thirties gave an instruction to the two young men on his left and right, then glanced at Liu Wenxiao who had just entered the room and turned his gaze back to the computer screen.

As soon as Liu Wenxiao entered the door, he was stunned.

Huh? Why are there so many more people? When I came for an interview last week, there were only four or five part-time students here. How come today, the open office area of ​​more than 200 square meters on the first floor seems to be almost half full?

The man just now looked very familiar. Where have you seen him before?

"Brother Wenxiao, you're here?" A short-haired girl appeared in front of Liu Wenxiao, with a friendly and enthusiastic smile on her face, "Come, I'll take you to the job registration first."

"No, Xiaoou... I don't..." Liu Wenxiao was about to refuse, but when he saw the smiling face of the short-haired girl, he was too embarrassed to say it out loud. After just a moment of hesitation, he was dragged into the office next door by Ma Xiaoou.

"Sister Shuyao, Brother Wenxiao is here." Ma Xiaoou called out happily to Shen Shuyao.

Shen Shuyao was communicating with another young woman in her twenties. When she saw Liu Wenxiao come in, she smiled apologetically and motioned him to wait a moment.

"Dr. Lu Si?" Liu Wenxiao carefully observed the young woman for several seconds before he called out in surprise, "Why are you here?"

Lu Si turned his head and looked at Liu Wenxiao in confusion.

Liu Wenxiao rubbed his hands nervously and looked at Lu Si, who was wearing long hair and light makeup in front of him. "I also went to the lecture you gave at the Ziguang Exchange Center last month. It was really wonderful. Oh, by the way, my name is Liu Wenxiao, Cheng Zhou's graduate student."

Lu Si holds an undergraduate degree in computer science from Zhida University and a PhD from Stanford University. During this period, he published more than ten SCI papers, many of which were in the first zone and top journals. He has more than twenty international patents and has won the Siebel Scholar Award and the Sloan Research Award. He has gained considerable fame in the industry.

Lu Si suddenly realized, smiled at Liu Wenxiao, waved to Shen Shuyao, said "Come on" to Liu Wenxiao, then turned and left.

"Brother Wenxiao, I'm sorry to have kept you waiting for a while." Shen Shuyao moved a plastic stool for Liu Wenxiao. "The conditions are simple for now. Please sit here first, take a look at these forms, and sign them."

"Manager Shen, Manager Shen, why is Dr. Lu Si here?" Liu Wenxiao sat on the plastic stool as he was told and scratched his head in confusion.

While busy looking for something, Shen Shuyao replied nonchalantly: "Brother Wenxiao, you can call me Xiao Shen or Shuyao, but don't call me manager. Sister Sisi started working the day before yesterday, and we will all be colleagues from now on."

“Joined the job? Dr. Lu Si joined Youzi Technology?” Liu Wenxiao was stunned.

How is this going?

I heard a while ago that Lu Si was going to join Ali Research Institute as a senior researcher? How did he end up joining Youzi Technology?

A talent of her level should not be short of offers, right?
Why did you come to such a low-end small company?
Or was it spent money?
Impossible? The salary is less than half of that of ByteDance.

"Brother Wenxiao?" Shen Shuyao called out to the dazed Liu Wenxiao, "Fill out these two forms first, so I can apply for office supplies and permissions for you."

Liu Wenxiao came to his senses, suppressed his doubts, and took the form from Shen Shuyao's hand.

A top-of-the-line MacBook Pro and a Xeon dual-core Titan X desktop computer, these two items alone would cost at least 50,000, right?
Not to mention accessories like Cherry's mechanical keyboards and Razer's Cobra mice, are there any other optional hardware below?

This company is quite interesting.

Take another look at the software application form.

hiss~
What a waste, isn't it?
Pycharm professional edition costs 199 yuan per year for a single user, matlab costs 2150 yuan, github enterprise edition costs 21 yuan per user... these are just the required ones, there are optional software, etc., you can also choose paid libraries?

"Are these all genuine?" Liu Wenxiao asked with a trembling voice.

It is true that big companies use genuine products, but they will not give all permissions to their employees, right? Opening an extra employee account is a cost, and it is common to control the number of single users of paid software. There is no need for everyone to apply, right? For such a small company, isn't it enough to open one account?
"Of course." Shen Shuyao casually rolled up her hair. "All the software of Youzi Technology is genuine or developed by ourselves. Not every employee has these accounts. It depends on the needs. Technical positions have them, but service positions like us don't need to apply for them."

How much the hell does this cost?

The company spent nearly 100,000 yuan on an employee’s first day at work?

If you have the money, why don’t you just give it to me?

And, service post?

What is a service position? Aren’t you a human resources manager? Aren’t you a management position?
"Fang Yu said that we don't have so-called management positions, only service positions. We all serve technical partners." Shen Shuyao blinked and showed a bright smile, "We are all partners."

Liu Wenxiao took a look at the name tag on Shen Shuyao's chest, and the words "Employee Relations Partner" were indeed written in the position column.

Employee relations partner?

Something new.

No, no, you can’t look at it too much. It’s too rude.

Maybe... I could try working in this company for a few days?
Liu Wenxiao hesitated for a moment, picked up the pen, checked several software he needed to use on the software application form, and then signed his name on both forms.

Shen Shuyao received the application form, and in the system, she selected the options according to Liu Wenxiao's list, and then clicked OK. "Brother Wenxiao, the work card will be given to you this afternoon. I will take you to your workstation first, and meet everyone by the way." Shen Shuyao stood up and took Liu Wenxiao to the open office area.

"Would you please sit here for now?" Shen Shuyao took Liu Wenxiao to the vacant workstation across from the thirty-something man. Just as she was about to introduce him to other colleagues, she suddenly remembered something and said, "Oh, sorry, Brother Wenxiao, I almost forgot that there's one thing I haven't handed over. Wait a minute."

Liu Wenxiao saw Shen Shuyao jogging back to the office and could only look around bored.

"Teacher Hua, CNN is running smoothly but there is a problem with LSTM. The computing power is still sufficient. Can you help me take a look?" A young man wearing glasses scratched his head embarrassedly.

Teacher Hua?

This surname is too rare. A flash of lightning flashed through Liu Wenxiao's mind, and the name in his mind and the face in front of him gradually merged together.

"Hua Zecheng?" Liu Wenxiao couldn't help but scream.

The middle-aged man in his thirties looked up at Liu Wenxiao and said, "Do you know me?"

Nonsense, how many people in China who are engaged in deep learning don’t know you?

Liu Wenxiao's heart was pounding, and he stammered, "Teacher Hua, I've watched your open class before, and it was very helpful to me."

If Lu Si is a rising star with potential and is expected to become a leader in the field of AI in the next decade, then Huaze Chengcheng has already gained considerable fame with his technology and is recognized as a technical expert in the industry!
Although Hua Zecheng's fame and qualifications are far inferior to those of academic giants such as Wu Ende of Qianxun and Huang Jian of Ali, such giants are no longer considered simply by their technical abilities.

But if he were to join these two companies, with his strength, he would definitely have the possibility of becoming the top man of Ng Ende and Huang Jian.

Such a person is actually in Youzi Technology now?

What is going on with this company?

Hua Zecheng just hummed, turned sideways and glanced at the screen of the young man next to him, without thinking: "Isn't the BEITH project that Professor Yorz and President Fang opened on Github to solve this problem? The company has a ready-made solution, you can go and take a look."

Professor Yortz? Who? Never heard of him.

github? I checked it out before the interview last week, and there is nothing under this company. What is the BEITH project?
"Oh, right." Hua Zecheng looked up at Liu Wenxiao, "You know about BP neural network, right? Run this data through BP and give me the result."

Liu Wenxiao nodded repeatedly, but did not dare to tell Hua Zecheng that his computer had not been distributed yet, and hurriedly took out his computer from his backpack.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, Brother Wenxiao, I forgot something important."

Shen Shuyao held the three cards with an apologetic look on her face.

"I remember your information said you haven't rented a room yet. This is the employee dormitory rented by the company. There are single rooms, double rooms and quad rooms. The single room is a one-bedroom apartment with a living room and a bathroom. The double room is a three-bedroom apartment with a small study, but the living room is a bit small. The quad room is a four-bedroom apartment with a floor area of ​​140 square meters. Needless to say, the disadvantages are that it is more lively. Which one do you choose?"

"The dormitory is not far from here, Yushuilanwan. Although it is a residential area built ten years ago, the environment is not bad. It takes fifteen minutes to get there by Mobike, and it takes about the same time to take a taxi."

"If you don't want to live in the dormitory provided by the company, the monthly rental subsidy is 2,500 yuan. You can choose whichever one you want."

Is this company still in charge?

Liu Wenxiao was becoming more and more confused.

When he went to ByteDance for an interview, the HR told him in a very high-profile manner that ByteDance could provide a monthly subsidy of 1,500 yuan, which he thought was not bad at the time.

But that was in Xinhao! It costs 4000 yuan to share a bedroom on the West Third Ring Road!

By comparison, it seems that although the salary at Youzi Technology is a bit low, it is still quite humane.

The cost of living in Haixi is much lower than that in Xinhao. With this in mind, a lower salary does not seem unacceptable.

Moreover, here is Lu Si and Hua Zecheng!
If a big shot like Hua Zecheng were to take the initiative to join a company like ByteDance, he would have to set himself a level of at least 3-2, which is equivalent to Ali's P9 or above.

But if ByteDance actually gave Hua Zecheng a 3-2 level, Hua Zecheng would not go at all.

Isn't this humiliating?
Without the 4-1 treatment for company leadership, it would be impossible to hire a technical expert like Hua Zecheng.

As for myself, it's already pretty good if I can barely get a 1-2, which is equivalent to Ahri's p6, but the salary may be higher than the average p6, and this is also due to the popularity of algorithms in the past two years.

1-2和4-1之间，隔着2-1、2-2、3-1、3-2这四个层级，每跨越一个层级，下面都是累累骸骨。

There may be tens of thousands of people between you and you may not even have the chance to meet each other even if you are in the same company.

But here, I can actually work with a great guy like Hua Zecheng, it’s like a dream.

Even if this company is unreliable and I leave one day, my experience of working with Hua Zecheng and Lu Si will not become an obstacle in interviewing for a new job.

Moreover, with these great people around, Yuzi Technology might really be able to produce something.

I’ve decided. I’ll work in this company for a while and see how it goes.

Liu Wenxiao clenched his fists and just made up his mind when he saw a tall and strong young man who seemed to be full of explosive power coming down from the second floor, followed by a black-haired girl with fair skin, bright eyes and white teeth.

Eh? Isn't that the guy who interviewed me?

The girls in this company are so pretty. The girl behind this boy is really pretty, no less pretty than Shen Shuyao, and she seems very young. She is probably a national university student working here part-time, right?

Liu Wenxiao was sighing when he saw Hua Zecheng, who had been calm and confident just now, suddenly stood up.

"Mr. Fang! There are a few issues in the 0.1 version of the Youzu framework that I haven't figured out. The first one..." When Hua Zecheng saw Fang Yu coming down, he stopped Fang Yu, called up his notes, and began to talk incessantly.

Liu Wenxiao was stunned. Mr. Fang? Could it be that the guy who interviewed him was the boss?

is that a lie?

And you are Hua Zecheng. Even if he is the boss, you don't have to be so flattering, right?

You even asked the boss for advice?

Where is your self-esteem?
What is the Yuzu architecture?
This is the only update for today. I stayed up late writing until 3 o'clock yesterday. I have been feeling uncomfortable all day. I feel so sick.

I will make up for the 2000 words I owe today tomorrow.

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(End of this chapter)