Manufacturing Empire in the Valley

Chapter 1057 Talent is the core competitiveness

When Niu Xiaoqiang said this, he changed the subject: "Is Pulis working the night shift?"

Whitman nodded: "Well, he and I are now working in two shifts, each leading a team to work."

"The 24-hour service concept you have implemented is very good. I suggest that you set up a maintenance department and let professional people lead the work. At that time, you will be freed from heavy work."

Whitman scratched his head: "It's not that we don't want to do this, it's that the salaries of engineers who know how to repair computers are too high, with an annual salary of $10,000+. Our company is still in its infancy, and we can't offer such a high salary for the time being." , so this matter can only wait.”

Niu Xiaoqiang looked at the college students working and asked, "Don't those college students know how to repair computers?"

Whitman sighed: "Yes, but they usually have to go to class, and they don't have so much time to go out to work, and it is even more impossible to go to the customer's home to repair the computer at night."

Niu Xiaoqiang thought for a while, and said, "You can try your best to select those college students majoring in computer science who are about to graduate, and recruit them into the company in the name of interns. Their skills are still available, and we can sign labor contracts with them. We only pay the salaries of interns, and when they pass the internship period, they can directly become regular employees of our company from interns. At that time, our company also has a certain scale and should be able to afford the high salaries of engineers. .”

Since computer is a sunrise industry, computer-related talents are very popular, and the wages are very good.

Although the method proposed by Niu Xiaoqiang cannot impress those top engineers, there is still hope to impress ordinary engineers.

In the computer industry, the salary of software engineers has always been higher than that of hardware engineers. The higher the level of software engineers, the more obvious the advantage in salary.This is a situation that makes hardware engineers very helpless and angry, but it does exist.

At present, there are only two software engineers in Hewlett-Packard, and these two are Whitman and Price.Every time a customer encounters a software problem, it is basically the two of them who go out to repair it.

As for hardware engineers, there is not much demand in this area.Mainly because the probability of computer software failure is much higher than the probability of hardware failure.In many cases, it is the software that causes the problem, and the hardware is fine.

Even if there is a problem with the hardware, it is easy to solve. If there is a problem with any part, just replace the part. It does not need to be as cumbersome as solving a software failure.

"I can give it a try. It would be best if someone is willing to sign a contract with our company. If not, Pulis and I can only continue to fight."

Niu Xiaoqiang shook his head with a smile: "What I just said was just a way to recruit ordinary college students. For those top talents with strong technical strength, I have another way to recruit them."

Whitman immediately asked: "What way?"

"It's easy to say, we can adopt a method similar to the partnership system and use dry stocks as bait to attract top talents to join our company. This policy is more attractive than the salary system of those big companies, as long as People who are optimistic about the future prospects of our company will most likely join our team."

When Niu Xiaoqiang said this, he changed the subject: "Of course, this will definitely affect the income of our three shareholders. I don't mind too much, but I don't know if you and Pulis are willing to give up the property that belongs to you. part of the profits?"

Whitman laughed: "Boss, you have underestimated me and Pulis too much. Yes, this plan will indeed affect our income, but as long as the company becomes bigger and stronger, the company will earn more money." , At that time, the loss of such a little profit will be nothing at all, and we can still make a lot of money."

In fact, this is easy to calculate. For example, Hewlett-Packard Co. takes out 5.00% of dry stocks to attract those top talents. If the profit for this year is 500 million US dollars, it is equivalent to paying 500 million US dollars to the holders of those dry stocks. , and the remaining [-] million US dollars will be distributed by the three shareholders according to their respective shareholding ratios.

It seems that the three shareholders have suffered a loss, and others have divided the money that originally belonged to them, but this is not the case at all.

Talents can bring technology to the company, and only with its own core technology can the company have core competitiveness.If Hewlett-Packard does not have top talents, it is unlikely to become bigger and stronger, and the annual profit may be just over 1000 million U.S. dollars.

The $500 million and $1000 million were distributed to the three at the same time, and the former obviously allowed them to share more money.

To put it bluntly, the bigger the cake, the more profits the three shareholders, Niu Xiaoqiang, will get, and the smaller the cake, the less profits the three will get. How to make the cake bigger?Talent and technology are the most critical factors.

Niu Xiaoqiang once calculated the value of each part of a computer. There are four most valuable parts: operating system, motherboard, chip and display.Among these four parts, Niu Xiaoqiang is temporarily unable to think about the motherboard and chip.

The technical content of these two parts is very high, and the manufacturing process is relatively complicated. Niu Xiaoqiang has no way to make a profit on this part.

In addition to chips and motherboards, Niu Xiaoqiang feels that he can still make a difference in monitors and operating systems.

He is preparing a TV factory, and TVs also have monitors. Since his factory can produce TV monitors, it can also produce computer monitors.Because the working principle of the two is not much different.

As for operating systems, this falls under the realm of software programming.Niu Xiaoqiang himself is a top programming expert, and his brother Robert is also a top expert in this area like him.As long as the two join forces, there is still great hope that a powerful operating system will be written.

If you want to earn a large amount of profits in the computer industry, the best way is to realize the link of independent production and try to hold the most valuable profits in your own hands.

Hewlett-Packard is currently only assembling computers under OEM, and has no core technology of its own. Although it has made a lot of profits, these profits are just dividends when the computer industry is booming.When others followed suit and assembled and sold computers under OEM, Hewlett-Packard could only compete with each other on price.At that time, the company's revenue will be greatly reduced.

And once it has the ability to produce high value-added accessories by itself, HP will have greater profit margins and greater room for maneuver.

(End of this chapter)