Huawei employees detail the inside story of overtime at Huawei: It is unrealistic not to work overtime at Huawei

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　　One week after Huawei employee Hu Xinyu passed away, on the evening of June 5, a Huawei employee was finally willing to stand up and tell the true situation of Huawei's overtime. It can be seen that this employee is full of respect for Ren Zhengfei, and he also expressed his understanding of Huawei's overtime system.

　　In order to protect this employee, his name was changed to Li Qiang.

　　In a restaurant near Shangdi in Beijing, Li Qiang told NetEase Business Report what he knew about the truth about overtime at Huawei.

　　Each workstation has a mattress

　　At Huawei, new employees will go to the Shenzhen headquarters for two weeks of intensive training, called "going to the brigade", to receive military training and training in the Huawei spirit. Once you start working, the mattress will accompany you throughout your days at Huawei.

　　The essence of Huawei's corporate culture lies in what Ren Zhengfei emphasizes: "Be low-key in life and high-profile in work." At the same time, as a company known for its technology, the "mattress spirit" is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. Li Qiang said: "There will be a mattress under each workstation. If there are 3,000 employees, there will be 3,000 mattresses."

　　This mattress does not mean that Huawei employees have to spend the night on it frequently, but it is used for employees to take a nap in the company. For employees doing technology research and development, a nap helps to restore physical and mental strength.

　　The standard configuration of a mattress is a small quilt and a pillow, and most employees do not stay overnight at the company. "Unless it is a very urgent job that needs to be completed on time, it is impossible to stay overnight at the company, because the effect of staying overnight may not be good. I once worked overtime at the company, and I was the only one working overtime in the entire company platform."

　　Huawei creates conditions for overtime work

　　Huawei has two regulations related to overtime. Li Qiang said that generally each employee works more than 44 hours a week and needs to work overtime on the last Saturday of each month. These conditions are easy for Huawei employees to meet.

　　Although Huawei does not have a public regulation to encourage employees to work overtime, it has been creating conditions that make employees happy to work overtime.

　　First, Huawei deposits 800 yuan into each employee's card as a monthly expense for meals and shopping within the company. If an employee works overtime at the company after 8:30 p.m., they can receive a free midnight snack. In addition, if the employee works overtime at the company after 10:30 p.m., the company can reimburse the employee's taxi fare to go home.

　　Therefore, "more than 70%" of employees will automatically work overtime until 8:30, because most of them are recent college graduates, and they don't have any entertainment activities on weekdays. Most of the male employees are also single, so many people will automatically work overtime until 8:30 and then go home.

　　In addition, Huawei rents houses or hotels around the company for some employees so that they are close to the office and can work overtime more easily.

　　At the same time, Huawei also has its own internal hospital and fitness facilities to protect the health of its employees. Each department also has its own exercise programs every week, such as badminton, tennis, football, etc.

　　Huawei's regular employees do not receive overtime pay for overtime work, but are paid on an hourly basis, often at a ratio of 1:1.5. The extra overtime hours can be used as compensatory leave, but most people don't get to use compensatory leave. "Generally speaking, when you leave Huawei, that's when Huawei will settle your overtime wages."

　　The ABCs of Performance Appraisal

　　Behind Huawei employees' overtime is Huawei's strict performance appraisal system.

　　According to Li Qiang, Huawei's year-end dividends and bonuses are relatively high in the field of network equipment manufacturers. The basic salary for Huawei employees is about 5K (5,000 yuan) for undergraduates and 6K (6,000 yuan) for postgraduates. At the end of the year, there will be a considerable performance bonus, usually at least tens of thousands.

　　However, not every employee can get this performance bonus because employees have to undergo performance appraisals every month.

　　Performance appraisal is divided into three levels: A, B, and C. According to Li Qiang's estimation, the total performance bonus for each level differs by more than 5,000 yuan each year.

　　Performance appraisals are allocated based on a fixed ratio of employees. Grade A generally accounts for about 5% of the total number of employees, Grade B accounts for 45%, Grade C accounts for 45%, and the remaining 5% of employees will be regarded as the last grade: pending investigation.

　　If an employee receives a C or pending investigation grade for several consecutive months, not only will he or she not receive a bonus, but he or she will also be transferred internally or have their salary reduced. For employees, being transferred to a low-paying position or having their salary reduced will result in a significant loss of income.

　　When evaluating employee performance, leaders often assess whether the employee completes the work in a timely and quality manner. However, if the employee is able to complete the work in a timely and quality manner, this means that the employee must work overtime to keep up with Huawei's fast pace and avoid becoming a drag on the entire engineering process.

　　Huawei internally did not know about Hu Xinyu's death

　　Most of Huawei's employees are restricted from using the Internet for technical reasons. Due to the busy work schedule, many employees within Huawei are still unaware of Hu Xinyu's unfortunate death.

　　On June 1, Li Qiang found a notice of mourning for Hu Xinyu on the bulletin board of Huawei's internal network system, but some colleagues still said they did not know about it.

　　Huawei's spokesperson Fu Jun once told NetEase Business Report that after Hu Xinyu's death, Huawei reiterated two overtime rules: overtime after 10 p.m. must be approved by the leader, and sleeping on the floor in the company is not allowed.

　　But Huawei's internal staff seemed to disagree with this. Li Qiang said that no one had ever told him about this rule. "No one told us that we were not allowed to work overtime. Not working overtime is not realistic for Huawei." (NetEase Business Report Zhang Jingke)

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I have also visited Huawei's headquarters. The campus is very beautiful, the facilities are very complete, the employees are very hardworking, and I have great respect for Ren Zhengfei. I was very proud to be a Huawei employee, but in the end I felt very inferior because I was still working hard for foreigners at that time...

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Yes, Huawei is a very good company in China, and it relies heavily on technology. If it didn't consider its employees well, it wouldn't have grown to such a large size.

gaoyanmei

In short, when you are young, you exchange your life for money, and when you are old, you exchange money for your life.

liudong863

Alas, looking at others and then looking at myself, I feel so sad. I feel sad for myself.