From knock-off old-man's electric vehicles to industrial giant

Chapter 285 V: Where the hell are my talents?
"I haven't decided yet," Li Nan said ambiguously. "But I went to Xingchen Motors recently, discussed supply orders there, and also learned about things related to the new energy vehicle industry."

"Starry Sky Motors?" Huang Zhang was taken aback. "You don't actually want to manufacture cars, do you? That's a huge leap."

Which car company would hire an executive from a mobile phone manufacturer?

“Car manufacturers are all pursuing intelligent technology, and Xingchen is a manufacturer that specializes in this area. They may create a mobile phone in the future,” Li Nan nodded.

Huang Zhang took a deep breath: "I understand you have thoughts about Meizu, but there's no need to fob me off with such absurd words. The direction of company reform cannot be stopped."

He found it outrageous.

Car manufacturers – making mobile phones?

Is there a colder joke than this this year?

Li Nan had no intention of saying anything more. Thinking back to the shareholding issue they had discussed yesterday, she sighed and said, "President Huang, I hope you understand."

“Fine, if you really want to leave, I won’t force you to stay…” Huang Zhang’s face turned cold as he changed his tone.

He had always harbored the idea of ​​optimizing the company structure and saving on personnel and R&D expenses, and he had been working on it. Meilan no longer exists, so Li Nan's departure from the company is perhaps a form of optimization.

"Thank you, Mr. Huang." Li Nan expressed his gratitude sincerely, then left the office to hand over the business.

Huang Zhang sat alone in his office, lost in thought.

But a short while later, another person he didn't expect arrived.

Bai Yongxiang took advantage of a break to come to the office and expressed his intention to leave.

"Old Bai, are you leaving too?"

Huang Zhang was genuinely dumbfounded this time.

"President Huang..." Bai Yongxiang hadn't finished speaking.

Huang Zhang suddenly realized something, his expression turning strange: "Li Nan just left, did you two plan this? Don't tell me it's Xingchen Motors again?!"

Bai Yongxiang was stunned. "We were afraid of upsetting you, so we decided to talk about it separately."

As soon as these words came out.

Huang Zhang couldn't help but ask, "Why?"

"Yang Zhe will be the main speaker at the 15 series launch event, and you'll also be overseeing the product development, so I don't have much to do," Bai Yongxiang said simply.

"What I mean is, why are you all giving me the same excuse?" Huang Zhang began. "Do you really believe a car company can make a good mobile phone?"

Bai Yongxiang shook his head honestly: "President Huang, I don't know either, but I'm leaving anyway. Xingchen does have real investment and shareholding recruitment teams, that's for sure, so I think it's not bad to go out and give it a try."

He spoke frankly.

Whether it's due to the Pro 7 or the current situation within the company, I'll be leaving sooner or later; it's just a matter of a few months earlier or later.

In that case, the best approach is to proactively suggest saving face.

“You have objections because of the shares. The company has already distributed equity incentives once before when it adjusted its structure. There will be additional issuances and continued implementation. As long as the company can do better and better, and equity incentives should always be distributed to those who have contributed to the company…” Huang Zhang argued, recalling Li Nan’s expression before she left the office.

"Well, we don't have much of a problem, we're just tired," Bai Yongxiang sighed.

Huang Zhang: "..."

Although he did have the idea of ​​internal optimization, doing it himself and having the two people bring it up are two different things.

At this moment, I felt a sense of disorientation.

A strange feeling arose in my heart.

This star—

What is it about him that makes him so appealing?
How could he win over two of his senior executives in such a short time?

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Bai Yongxiang stayed in the office for more than half an hour. In the end, his resignation application was approved. The senior executives and internal employees who learned the news that day were all shocked and had complicated expressions.

Some people couldn't resist taking the opportunity to submit their resignation letters.

With the successive departures of two core executives, Meizu is experiencing a major upheaval!
Throughout 2017, Meizu began internally optimizing its company structure, resulting in layoffs of up to 1,000 employees.

Seeing this, Huang Zhang finally showed no mercy and took this opportunity to launch a major internal purge.

Just as Bai Yongxiang said, all the business related to the new model has already been handled by others, so there is no need for so many people internally.

In his view, the large R&D and design departments were too cumbersome and completely unnecessary.

In just three days.

The news that Meizu is facing a wave of layoffs has become a trending topic in the news.

Netizens and people from both inside and outside the industry flocked to watch.

……

Xu Yi had plans to poach talent. The establishment of the mobile phone business unit and the expansion of the in-vehicle infotainment department required a large number of skilled workers.

I was originally planning to call and go ask Yu Chengdong.

Although he also knows.

They were just being polite on the surface.

Truly capable individuals are the backbone of a company; no company would easily let them slip through its fingers unless it's truly on the verge of collapse or has lost its mind.

This is the case now.

Just when I was about to doze off, someone brought me a pillow.

A stack of resumes was delivered to me, some from Meizu employees who had been laid off, and others from Meizu employees who were still there but had to “be prepared for the worst.”

After Li Nan and Bai Yongxiang left their jobs, more than two hundred people indirectly came to work for them.

Over the next few days, employees were continuously "introduced" to the mobile phone and in-vehicle systems departments. These employees all had extensive experience in mobile phone R&D, system R&D, or were skilled in underlying interactive code.

The answer to Meizu's layoffs is also very simple. In short, Meizu's priority this year is profitability, and there are strict layoff targets.

Although many of the employees here are highly capable, and their performance and R&D capabilities are also excellent.

But hard indicators are hard indicators.

Meizu simply doesn't have that many models to make this year. They canceled the Meilan series, and with the failure of the Pro 7, they still have a large inventory of new phones. Alibaba has withdrawn its investment from Meizu, and new financing is facing obstacles. At the same time, they can't afford to support so many people.

As a result, these redundant R&D personnel had no choice but to leave.

Even the elite members of the department began to waver in the face of such a sense of unease within the organization.

the other side.

O and V were the first to react.

It's worth noting that Meizu's Flyme, as one of the earliest customized UIs in China, has accumulated a large number of loyal users thanks to its simple and smooth design and user-friendly interaction. It has even been called "Meizu's only moat" by outsiders.

OPPO is also working closely on the design of ColorOS 6.

In order to make up for its shortcomings and improve the design quality of the system as quickly as possible, OPPO had no choice but to target Meizu's Flyme team and secretly launched a plan to poach them with double the annual salary.

In the second half of last year, they had already poached a number of mid-to-senior level designers, and OPPO Vice President Shen Yiren was in charge of the entire process of advancing this project.

When he received industry news that Li Nan and Bai Yongxiang had allegedly left the company and that Huang Zhang had begun large-scale internal layoffs, he was immediately overjoyed.

"Great! The opportunity has finally arrived!!"

Industry insiders have been predicting since last year that if Meizu fails to secure external investment this year, its current personnel structure will inevitably crumble and it will eventually collapse.

This is simply great news.

He quickly contacted headhunting firms and mobilized resources within the industry to take in these "heartbroken laid-off Meizu employees" as quickly as possible.

However, what he never expected was.

Just as the headhunting firm was getting into action to contact the Flyme R&D staff who had recently left the company...

The answer they received a day later was that these people had already been rehired.

Shen Yiren was dumbfounded!
"What did you say? You resigned and then got back on the job less than three days ago?"

"Where did they join? Who moved so quickly? Was it Xiaomi or Vivo?"

He was utterly shocked!
For a split second, I thought of our arch-rival!
No!

How come they moved so fast?
Where the hell are the talents?!
We finally waited until Meizu couldn't hold on any longer.

Where are the people! ! !

……

at the same time.

Vivo has also received the news, and their strategy is similar to OPPO's; both want to take this opportunity to poach more talent.

However, vivo has been more discreet in this regard.

Shen Weigang received similar news to OPPO as soon as he made the call.

"Li Nan and Bai Yongxiang resigned and went to Xingchen?"

He was taken aback at first.

"Meizu has started a wave of layoffs. Have all the top employees who recently left gone to Xingchen? We didn't even get one-tenth of them? And the few we did manage to get were those who were already screened out by them?!"

Upon hearing this news, I was completely speechless.

……

(End of this chapter)