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Text Chapter 3324: Poaching

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    At this point, Apple and Motorola are really dumb and unable to tell the story of their suffering!  They want to stop the loss quickly, but after someone discovers the stop loss, they can't sell. Doesn't this make them uncomfortable?  Fortunately, Apple said that they made a "technological investment" and just put one of their own software malls into Motorola's mobile phones. What Apple really paid was not much. At most, it was the salary and time cost of some personnel.  .  But Motorola is miserable!  They pay for the hardware cost of this phone!  Now that mobile phones cannot be sold, wouldn¡¯t the mobile phones they have produced be in vain?  Isn¡¯t this almost all a waste?

    So under such a situation, the decline in Apple¡¯s stock price is not dramatic, but the decline in Motorola¡¯s stock price is really amazing!  Under such a situation, the CEO of Motorola and other senior executives were really crying!  Why did Motorola's CEOs seek cooperation with Apple?  Just to appease the anger of the board of directors, just to increase the stock price as soon as possible!  In order to increase the stock price as soon as possible, they have even announced in Europe that the mobile phone will be released in November without even saying hello to Apple!  The results of it?  The stock price had not risen for two days when something like this happened, and it completely turned into a rhythm of shooting oneself in the foot!

    For many years, Motorola¡¯s successive CEOs have been trying to change the company¡¯s long-term monotonous corporate culture, trying to build Motorola into the world¡¯s top consumer electronics giant.  This task naturally falls on the head of current Motorola CEO Edward.  therefore.  Edward's ultimate mission is to regain the title of "the world's largest mobile phone manufacturer."  , Motorola has no outstanding performance. The stock has been falling all the way, and now it has reached the point of plummeting. It can be said that Edward's CEO position is a bit precarious all of a sudden!  This CEO has been "summoned" by the board of directors many times!

    Motorola became sad at this time, while Apple did not receive much impact. Although their stock price also dropped a bit, the drop was not much.  Moreover, under the leadership of Jobs, the entire Apple company has almost ignored the cooperation projects with Motorola, and the human and material resources of the mobile phone department have been reduced.  Basically, they have been concentrated in the fields of independent systems and mobile phone research and development!  Speak the truth.  After the death of the previous words, Apple has really begun to secretly prepare to develop a system called iphone-os. Such a system is also a thing that was later renamed ios in history.  However, the current predecessor of iOS is not fully developed.  If we want to talk about progress.  Nowadays they are only at the level of alpha version!

    The so-called alpha version.  That is, even the basic functions are not fully built, not to mention there are many bugs.  Software at this stage simply cannot be released.  You shouldn¡¯t even ask consumers for ¡°public testing¡±.  Because such an immature version is exposed too early, it can only greatly disappoint consumers, and then cause the entire brand to be somewhat affected!  In such an alpha version of iOS, it is normal for it to take a year and a half to develop into a version that can be released. But now Steve Jobs has given a death order. It must be completed within a year no matter what. It is best to  It was completed within half a year.  Such a request would make the employees of Apple want to die!  Because everyone is scared to death of Steve Jobs!  If the task cannot be completed and the node cannot be caught up, Steve Jobs will really call everyone to the office and scold them severely. The scolded developers will be tempted to jump out of the window and commit suicide directly!

    Just when Apple¡¯s software engineers were under a lot of pressure and working hard, suddenly when they went home after get off work in the middle of the night, a mysterious headhunter found them.  According to the headhunter, there is a large company in the industry that is slightly competitive with their company. It is very optimistic about Apple's software engineers and wants to ask if they are interested in changing jobs This matter suddenly made some Apple software engineers  We suddenly felt like a drowning person saw a life-saving straw and rushed!  Because sometimes life at Apple really makes people feel like life is worse than death!  Especially when forced by Steve Jobs!  Although working under Steve Jobs, it really feels like working with a genius.  But such a genius has such a bad temper!  Even though it is said that the temper of such a genius has improved a lot compared to when he was young, but now it seems that it makes Alexander want to commit suicide!  If you change jobs to another companyhisswill there be much less pressure?  Is there any other company in the industry that has as much work pressure as Apple?

    And the key point is that there is no clause prohibiting horizontal competition in Apple¡¯s employee contract!  In other words, there is no restriction on employees resigning or changing jobs. They are not allowed to enter the enterprise within a few years.Enter the terms of companies that compete with Apple!  If there is such a clause, then when employees resign, they will have to pay a lot of money!  In order to reduce costs as much as possible, Apple has no clauses in this regard!  So this means that employees can actually change jobs to competing companies!  As a result, some software engineers are really tempted!  Then, after these software engineers tried every means to ask for leave, they went to a headhunting company for an interview - of course, an interview with the headhunting company.  It is impossible for a headhunting company to allow the client and the headhunted target to meet directly. Otherwise, wouldn't the headhunting company not be able to get the intermediary money?

    During the interview or interview with the headhunting company, these software engineers were quite satisfied - the conditions provided by the headhunting company for helping the new owner were quite good, and it was slightly higher than the salary originally provided by Apple, and the headhunting company  He also promised that the new boss would never have the same bad temper as Jobs. The new boss was easy to talk to and at this time, Jobs also noticed such a thing!  How did he find out?  It's very simple. Who said there are no office politics in European and American offices?  And besides, some of the software engineers responsible for developing iOS ask for leave every now and then, and they always ask for leave during the day. These people also receive mysterious phone calls from time to time during working hours, and even go to uninhabited corners to answer the phone mysteriously and quietly.  ¡­

    Jobs was not a young person. After seeing this kind of performance, how could he still not understand that these software engineers who behaved strangely were facing poaching?  He also knows that this period of time puts a lot of pressure on the people below, but there is nothing he can do!  The company is currently facing a tight schedule. He can't just let the people below follow their own pace, right?  You always have to obey the company¡¯s policies, right?  And if so many software engineers change jobs all at once, to be honest, the speed of iOS development will definitely be affected!  Even if not all of these software engineers are in key positions, when newcomers come, why don¡¯t they have to re-familiarize themselves with the progress?  Don¡¯t want to re-familiarize yourself with various design ideas or something?  Isn¡¯t this all time cost?  So Jobs planned to make it impossible for so many software engineers to find new jobs!

    But what should we do to prevent the people below from changing jobs?  Employees have the right to resign. Steve couldn't help but let people resign, right?  Moreover, headhunting companies now come to recruit people, and he doesn¡¯t know who the representatives behind the headhunting companies are!  So after much deliberation, Jobs felt that it must not be some small and medium-sized company poaching people - in the United States these days, no small and medium-sized company dares to poach Apple!  Because I can¡¯t afford the treatment!  The annual salary of software engineers working at Apple is US$150,000 or more. Generally, the annual salary of software engineers in small and medium-sized companies is only about US$120,000, and the benefits provided by Apple are not bad, so it is obvious that only giant companies can come to poach them.  people!  Otherwise, Apple's software engineers may not be willing to work for small companies. After all, small and medium-sized companies may collapse in a few years, so they might as well work at Apple!

    Under such a situation, after Jobs thought about it, he probably drew up a list of several "suspects" - those who have the courage and strength to poach Apple's software engineers, probably Intel, China Hi-Tech, Microsoft, etc.  A manufacturer!  Although Intel may not need engineers to develop mobile phone software, not everyone in Apple knows about Apple's development of mobile phone systems, let alone people outside!  Maybe the other party just wants to recruit people, but they didn¡¯t expect that the people they hired happened to be working on mobile phone systems!  So after thinking about this, Jobs wrote a secret email to several manufacturers in private.

    And Jia Hongjian received such an email.  When he first received the email, Jia Hongjian was really surprised. He thought that Jobs had found out so quickly that he, Jia Hongjian, was the one poaching Apple!  That¡¯s right, Jia Hongjian hired a headhunting company to poach people from Apple before!  As a reborn person, Jia Hongjian, especially a reborn person who was a fan of his predecessor, he knew with a little judgment that Apple must be developing iOS now. Since Apple is going to be his opponent, Jia Hongjian, and since it seems that Huaxia Hi-Tech is also developing iOS.  Apple has no good way to deal with the mobile phone system head-on, so who says we can't use some underhanded tactics to cause trouble?  So he hired a headhunting company to poach people from Apple. If he poached five or six people, it would disrupt Apple's development plans, right?  Isn't this tantamount to causing trouble for Apple?

    So the first time he saw such a letter, Jia Hongjian really thought that Steve Jobs was a god!  How could he find out so quickly that it was Jia Hongjian who was causing trouble?  Unexpectedly, when I opened the email and took a look, I realized that it wasn't him who was trying to knock someone off the wall at all!  It turned out that Jobs's letter contained something like this - in view of the complex competition in the market today, why not let Apple take the lead and stipulate that several giant companies should not poach each other?  (To be continued, please search Piaotian Literature. The novels will be better and updated faster!
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