On April 25, Huawei's official public account "Huawei Recruitment" released public information, offering more than 5 times the salary, regardless of academic qualifications and schools, and recruiting talented teenagers around the world. Data shows that Huawei has recruited more than 300 "talented teenagers" in the past two years.
According to the recruitment information, Huawei "is eager for you who have the ability and willingness to challenge world-class problems." Huawei is not limited to academic qualifications or schools for candidates, but requires special achievements in mathematics, computers, physics, materials, chips, intelligent manufacturing, chemistry and other related fields and aspires to become a technology leader.
Huawei pointed out that heavyweight scientific research achievements/papers/patents, top laboratory/top class graduation, and international top competition awards will become bonus points for candidates. For talented teenagers, Huawei will provide world-class challenging topics; big bull mentors, global vision, platforms, and resources; in addition, it will also offer more than 5 times the salary.
According to information previously disclosed on Huawei's official website, the "Genius Teenager" program was initiated by Ren Zhengfei and used top challenges and top salaries to attract top talents. The project mainly focuses on the six major topics of "connection", "artificial intelligence", "intelligent terminal", "cloud and computing", "intelligent car" and "intelligent manufacturing".
As early as July 2019, Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei issued a "Notice on the Implementation of Annual Salary Management for Some Top Students of the Class of 2019", saying that to win the future technology and business wars, it is first necessary to attract top talents with top salaries, and Huawei will recruit 20 to 30 "talented teenagers" from all over the world, and recruit 200 to 300 more the following year. It is reported that the salaries of "genius teenagers" are divided into three grades, of which the highest annual salary can reach 2.01 million yuan, and many of Huawei's "genius teenagers" are focused on the field of artificial intelligence and algorithms.
Huawei revealed at the 2021 annual report press conference that last year and the year before, Huawei recruited about 26,000 fresh graduates, of which more than 300 were "genius teenagers" as defined by Huawei. Last year, the official WeChat of Huazhong University of Science and Technology revealed that two students of the school were selected for Huawei's "Genius Youth" program that year, and 6 people in the school have been selected for the program within 3 years.
This year, the first "genius teenager" to be made public to the outside world is Lin Tian, a graduate of the School of Information Science and Engineering of Fudan University. Huawei's most well-known "genius teenager" is the well-known UP master of B station, Zhihuijun, formerly known as Peng Zhihui, graduated from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China in 2018 and is currently an AI architect at Huawei. The robotic arm he invented that can sew needles for grapes, the self-driving bicycle that can go straight, turn, and dodge obstacles, and the desktop robot that can operate the computer with the arm are all screen brushing works on social networking sites.
Meng Wanzhou, Huawei's rotating chairman and CFO, once said that Huawei's greatest wealth is talent storage, thought storage, theoretical storage, engineering storage and method storage, as well as efficient and orderly storage of internal process management, which is the real value of Huawei behind the financial report. According to Huawei's annual report, in 2021, Huawei will have about 107,000 people engaged in research and development, accounting for about 54.8% of the company's total number. In 2022, Huawei plans to recruit more than 10,000 fresh graduates.
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