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Chapter 3215: Internal and External Collusion Company Tour

"Collusion between inside and outside?"

Zhou Buqi finally realized what he was talking about.

Tang Binchen said: "Yes, it is collusion between insiders and outsiders. Many tourists are not satisfied with just visiting the park, and they also want to go into their companies to take a look. In particular, many people who travel to Silicon Valley are engaged in the IT industry in China. They all want to see the difference between large Silicon Valley companies and domestic companies. This is a big demand."

Zhou Buqi said in a deep voice: "So this startup company called Banmi provides this service?"

"Yes, they have crossed the line." Tang Binchen was very angry about this, because this could very well lead to a huge disaster. "If tourists want to visit the company, they can, Silicon Valley will also provide such opportunities. But it must be a special time period, during non-working hours, some tourists can be invited to enter the company to experience and witness the working atmosphere of Silicon Valley. However, Banmi did not take this path!"

This is like many prestigious universities.

Outsiders can also visit the school, take photos, and wander around the campus like a college student.

But there is one thing: you cannot enter the teaching building and dormitory building at will, and you cannot disturb the students' classes and rest.

If you want to visit the teaching building, that's fine.

Need to say hello to the school.

Then the school will arrange the time and choose a rest day when students are not in class and the teaching buildings are empty. The school staff can then lead tourists to visit the teaching buildings, library and even student dormitories.

The premise of everything is that it does not affect the normal study, work and life of students and teachers.

But the problem is that demand outstrips supply.

The school offers too few opportunities, not even once or twice a semester, and almost every visitor wants to take a look around the teaching building.

The same is true for big companies in Silicon Valley.

Only a very small number of tourists have the opportunity to visit the interior of a large company. Most tourists just take photos and walk around the park, and know nothing about the interior of the office building. It is said that the working environment of large companies in Silicon Valley is more relaxed than that of a coffee shop, with various creative designs and layouts, which is really attractive.

What if I can’t get in?
Then the only option is collusion between insiders and outsiders.

Visitors try to establish connections with employees within the company, and then the employees use their ID cards to take them on a tour of the company.

Zhou Buqi said, "This kind of thing also happens in China. I heard He Yang say before that some employees swiped their employee cards and brought many outsiders to visit Ziwei Star. There are even paid services. Each person they bring in costs one or two hundred yuan! This is fucking like it has become an industry. There are more domestic tourists who are curious about and yearn for the internal office environment of Ziwei Star than those who travel abroad!"

Tang Binchen said angrily, "Yes, the same thing, that's it! I guess the corporate tour business launched by Banmi was inspired by the underground corporate tour market in China. Build a platform to connect tourists with internal company employees. Charge per person, 100-150 US dollars per person, and then internal employees will take them to visit the company and take pictures."

“If Silicon Valley encounters this kind of thing, it will only be more troublesome.”

Zhou Buqi also found this matter difficult.

Because Ziweixing has encountered this in the country.

For this reason, a group of employees were severely fired and such behavior was strictly prohibited. However, it is difficult to eliminate such private affairs from the source.

Because big companies all have internal referral systems.

Internal referral means that employees can recommend capable outsiders whom they know and trust to the company, and then the company will select the best candidates. This is much more efficient than recruiting people from a vast sea of ​​people. But in this process, you always have to let the other party know about the company, right? So many people take advantage of this loophole and bring some friends to visit the company, on the grounds that they can let the other party feel it and if they are satisfied, they can make an internal referral.

Or maybe the people who come are college students, or family members of employees, and want to take a look... who can stop them?

In addition to legal principles, there are also human relationships, not to mention company rules.

Therefore, Ziweixing's solution is to customize a batch of new access control equipment, combining the latest facial recognition technology with the turnstiles in subways. Only one person can pass through at a time, and each person needs facial recognition. Only employees who have been sampled within the company can complete the recognition.

This technically solves the loophole in the past where doors could be opened by swiping access cards or employee cards.

In the past, with the card swiping model, once an employee entered, others followed suit. Or, an employee handed over his card and an outsider swiped it to enter. "Face recognition + turnstile" can effectively control the situation.

Or maybe we can say that technology is the ladder of human progress.

Many things that cannot be done through rules and organizational management can be patched through technology.

This is domestic.

It's not the same abroad. The management of Silicon Valley companies is much more relaxed than that of domestic companies. They will not make any engineering innovations in the design of such access control systems. In this regard, they are far behind domestic companies.

This means that this kind of collusion between insiders and outsiders to bring outsiders into the company is more difficult to effectively stop in Silicon Valley.

This would be dangerous.

Because technology companies have some core secrets, if outsiders come in, there might be commercial spies lurking inside...

Especially the most important point.

Banmi is a domestic startup company!

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The users and tourists of Banmi must be domestic Chinese users, and the employees of Banmi must be Chinese employees.

This is very serious!

Tang Binchen could clearly sense this danger. "Facebook was the first to discover this kind of thing. It was found that many employees were bringing outsiders into the company, and even bringing outsiders to eat in the employee cafeteria. And these employees were all Chinese employees!"

Zhou Buqi took a deep breath and said, "It might be an anti-Chinese incident!"

"Yes, this is what I am most worried about. The impact is too bad." Tang Binchen was heartbroken. "Some people don't realize how much negative impact their actions will have on the industry and the entire Chinese community. Banmi's users are all Chinese. Once it is magnified, it may be that the Chinese are colluding with each other inside and outside to illegally invade Silicon Valley technology companies."

Zhou Buqi said coldly: "Some people don't care about the flood at all just to make money!"

Tang Binchen said: "Now this matter has been magnified and has formed an industry effect. After Facebook found out about it, it started an internal investigation and found that dozens of Chinese employees were involved. Many photos of Facebook's internal affairs were circulated on social media, which made Zuckerberg very angry and he fired all the employees involved."

"All fired?"

"Well, no mercy at all. No room for explanation. If you are found guilty, you will be fired."

"The nature of this matter is indeed very bad." Zhou Buqi actually has some sympathy. "Maybe those Chinese employees who participated in it didn't think so much. They just wanted to use the Banmi platform to make some pocket money."

Tang Binchen said: "But in fact, this will trigger a group effect, causing rejection and vigilance in Silicon Valley. Because all the employees involved in such incidents are Chinese employees!"

This time, Zhou Buqi seemed to have found another answer.

In Silicon Valley, Chinese were once stronger than Indians.

Later, the two sides were tied.

Later, the Indians overtook.

Later on, Indians left Chinese far behind. Indians are even more competitive than whites in core positions, while Chinese are getting further and further away from core positions.

The occurrence of this phenomenon must be caused by multiple elements.

It is not only the changes and complexity of the external environment, but also related to the Chinese community itself. All these things are so shocking. How can people not be afraid?

Tang Binchen sighed, "It's very troublesome now. The whole Silicon Valley is in a panic... You know the latest Asia-Pacific strategy of the White House, which has caused this matter to seem to be exaggerated. The whole Silicon Valley has taken action. Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Cisco, IBM and other technology giants are all conducting self-examinations and checking whether their Chinese employees are involved."