"Many people may not understand why I would spend sixty or seventy billion to make cars when it could be done through contract manufacturing with just ten billion. Isn't that stupid?"
"Honestly speaking, that's how my peers laugh at me."
Chen Pingsheng turned his head and began sharing some of his experiences, "Recently, I visited Manhattan, and it's possible that many of you still don't understand the significance of corporate scientific research.
"Let me explain it to you. After Google's Alpha AI defeated the Korean Go world champion, do you think artificial intelligence is merely for playing Go or performing some simple program calculations?" ɴᴇᴡ ɴᴏᴠᴇʟ ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀs ᴀʀᴇ ᴘᴜʙʟɪsʜᴇᴅ ᴏɴ noᴠelfire.net
"No, in the future, it may eliminate over ninety percent of assembly line workers, and AI can even chat with you directly, draw pictures, clean your house, and so on, in any application scenario you can imagine."
"As foreign AI technology continues to make breakthroughs, it will be able to accomplish all of that, even directly helping you to write computer programs."
"This is the AI era that foreign countries have been talking about."
"And the biggest threat to us domestically lies in the AI technology closing the advantage gap created by population differences."
"It can replace two or even more assembly line workers with just one robot, and it can work nonstop for 24 hours, saving even the cost of wages. You just need the money to buy the robot and maybe the fee to use its program."
"Can you imagine the massive blow to those huge domestic contract manufacturers once foreign countries achieve such technology?"
"How many people will face unemployment in this process."
The topic was serious, and Chen Pingsheng was telling them that the era of scientific research was coming.
The idea of earning money through contract manufacturing or cheap labor is already becoming unrealistic.
Times are changing, enterprises are changing, and people must change along with them.
"Returning to our Tengfei New Energy car manufacturing, the history of building cars has surpassed a century. We can't catch up with fuel vehicles anymore. New energy is just beginning, and the nation has been supporting it with huge subsidies, including tax exemptions and various incentive policies."
"Why do they do this? Look at this data. In Small Day, the automotive industry accounts for 40% of the total industry, and in Germany, it's as high as 50%."
"An automobile industry supports so many modern industries and is the pillar industry of two developed countries."
"To compete with these century-old car companies in the future, without our own core technologies, relying only on contract manufacturing or cheap labor is simply unrealistic."
"As I mentioned earlier, foreign countries could use robots to replace production workers, and no matter how cheap your labor is, it can't beat a robot that just needs to be charged and booted."
"Therefore, the future era is destined to be one of scientific research; whoever really masters revolutionary technology will have pricing power in the market."
"Our Tengfei is just a beginner on this journey, and its future will need more outstanding domestic graduates to safeguard it."
Chen Pingsheng did not brag about his company, but the hundreds of students below could feel the power in his words.
Even Jiang Yan, who had already received an offer from Huawei, felt the urge to join Tengfei New Energy immediately.
When they looked at the recruitment information posted by Tengfei, many felt disheartened.
It wasn't hiring just anyone.
It was primarily recruiting for three major categories related to new energy development.
First were graduates in electrical engineering and automation.
This area mainly involves fields such as electrical and control engineering, power systems, and their automation.
Then there's the polymer materials specialization.
The main research direction is the power batteries for new energy vehicles and the development of polymer materials.
As well as the design and development of electric vehicle drive motors.
The battery field has reached a bottleneck at the current stage, so more talent is needed to participate in the development of battery products to break through this bottleneck.
Another area is the electronic information specialty.
It mainly involves the research and development fields of the intelligent A system for new energy vehicle models, as well as intelligent vehicle networking, voice control systems, etc.
The intelligent evolution of new energy vehicles is also an inevitable trend in the automotive industry, and therefore it needs the involvement of professionals in electronic information engineering.
These are the three main areas it's hiring for.
As for the compensation package, it's about the same as Huawei, or even higher.
It also adopts a basic salary plus annual bonus and various bonus models.
The difference from Huawei is that they have high profits and their employees can get a handsome sum of money from annual stock dividends.
Tengfei may not see profits for five years, so the basic salary for research staff starts at 18,000 and above.
The specifics also depend on annual ratings and increases based on years of service.
That is, the basic wage.
The minimum annual salary is sixteen times the monthly salary, which is 16 months' wages.
The starting annual salary for research personnel is around 288,000.
Upon joining, there are housing subsidies; if you don't want the housing subsidy, you can apply for six months of free employee apartment accommodation.
These are the benefits for all new employees of the Tengying Group.
In addition, every newly employed university graduate can get a graduation bonus of 50,000.
This is a reward from Chen Pingsheng to everyone.
With such a starting package, it's already the ceiling for countless workers.
So many people work a lifetime and never hit an annual salary of 300,000.
Here, you have it right from the start, plus full board and a joining bonus of 50,000.
With these conditions, an average student simply can't get in; they're looking for top-performing students.
Education is definitely useful, but the key is to excel at it.