Chapter 275 Room-Temperature Superconductor Exit

“Of course NIO is short of people. Many of our engineers have been poached by Tesla. In terms of conditions, the gap between our conditions and Tesla’s is not that big.

Considering the price gap between China and America, I think our salary even has an advantage.

But some engineers still choose to leave, especially those with very rich experience.”

The founder of NIO publicly recruited engineers on Douyin live broadcast and posted the job openings directly in the yellow cart in the live broadcast room.

Netizens from all over the country were also enlightened.

America and other developed countries are absorbing immigrants from China and significantly lowering the threshold.

Everyone knows about this. After all, in the second half of last year, Guangjia Aerospace and Tesla were both recruiting in Shanghai, and the news was widely publicized by Chinese self-media.

It is said that the technology giants of China and America are competing to see who is more attractive to top talents.

After the recruitment is over, some media outlets still try to estimate the number of resumes received by both parties, the proportion of applications and other data, trying to find a winner in the middle.

The rabbits hope to get evidence that Dongda has won. You see, the leading Chinese companies are more attractive. The god friends naturally hope to get the opposite conclusion.

However, the reality is that it is a fight between two giants, and the companies in the middle are suffering.

Both Guangjia Aerospace and Tesla have recruited satisfactory talents.

Domestic new energy vehicle companies, especially those like NIO, Xiaopeng and Li Auto, which are well-known and have a certain scale, the competition in the domestic new energy vehicle market is still fierce.

Compared with Tesla's near-monopoly position, top talents naturally prefer to jump to Tesla. This is to go to Tesla's headquarters in Texas, not to be a front-line worker at Tesla's Shenhai factory.

“It’s because there are too few NIOs.”

"Don't treat talented people as fools!"

"It's no use making empty promises. People nowadays won't buy into that."

"Brother Bin, if you offer the same treatment as Tesla, people will definitely not leave."

“Are all domestic new energy vehicle companies facing a talent winter?”

A lot of people watched the live broadcast.

Judging from the public image displayed in TikTok, the founder of NIO is very open-minded and honest.

The audience doesn’t know what kind of person he is in private, but at least in terms of his public image, he is far ahead of other founders.

Xiaopeng is too dull and his ideals are too self-centered. The image of Weilai's founder is the most popular in the public opinion space.

In addition, new energy vehicle companies have all started public recruitment since the beginning of this spring, as if they were suffering from talent anxiety. The audience associated this with the large-scale recruitment of Chinese engineers by foreign countries since last year.

This is a rare opportunity to learn about the actual situation from front-line corporate executives.

The more he answered, the more people came in to watch the fun, and the higher the probability that the entire live broadcast room would be pushed.

This is a positive cycle.

"We are definitely trying our best to retain them, as NIO's salary is definitely high among new energy vehicle companies.

However, there is a gap between the average GDP, prices and living costs of China and America. We cannot offer these engineers the same treatment as Tesla.

It’s not that NIO can’t afford it, but if we offer this treatment, the entire salary system will have to be adjusted, and the salaries of autonomous driving algorithm engineers will be increased.

So should other algorithm engineers, like Nomi’s algorithm engineers, be promoted? Should system development engineers be promoted?
Engineers who develop software have seen their salaries increase, but what about those who work on hardware equipment? Chassis tuning, motor development, etc., do all of these people have to follow the general increase?

This is very complicated, and it requires matching the salary packages of Tesla headquarters in Texas, which is a cost that NIO cannot afford for the time being.”

"It's not Shandong Texas, it's American Texas." Li Bin smiled and was very good at responding to the jokes thrown by netizens.

"Of course, the relaxation of immigration policies in countries such as America and Japan last year had some impact on us."

As he was talking, he noticed a warning light on the platform.

He immediately realized that he had said the wrong thing.

This is essentially because, at the macro level, the chances of winning are getting bigger and bigger, and for individuals who have not benefited from the industry's dividends, their life experience has not improved.

In other words, one is full of confidence when talking about the country's prospects, but full of pessimism when talking about personal prospects.

Although Li Bin did not talk about these topics in his live broadcast, you did discuss the relaxation of foreign immigration policies.

This caused the atmosphere of the entire live broadcast room to begin to change.

He quickly added: "These effects are very small.

Most people are still reluctant to leave their motherland. After all, the country has developed so well, and life in the country is more convenient in all aspects.

There are still problems with adaptation when going abroad, so most people choose to stay in the country.

Only a small number of people are willing to leave.”

This change in facial expression and the abrupt turn in his words were seized upon by netizens who were watching the live broadcast, and the comments became faster and faster.

Fortunately, the subordinates in charge of the live broadcast were smart enough, or had rich experience, and they set up blocked words at the first opportunity and blocked some sensitive words.

“We are now facing more internal competitors.

Just think about it, manufacturers such as Baidu, Alibaba and Didi have all started to build cars and increase their investment in the field of driverless cars, and the impact of their poaching of talents is also huge.

Companies like Elon Musk and Elon Musk are also making cars, and they are also poaching some engineers.

In addition, considering that the development of rocket launch technology has achieved a leap in just two years, the cost of rocket launch has been greatly reduced.

In the past, we would not have considered using optical satellites to enhance autonomous driving algorithms.

Because the cost of doing so is too high, only Geely chose that technical route.

It is certainly a good idea to use optical satellites to enhance autonomous driving. The more data you have, the more accurate your model will be, and the more intelligent the algorithm will be.

Now that Baidu has started to dominate this field, we have no choice but to follow suit.

Just like why Tesla insisted on the camera-based autonomous driving algorithm route in the early days, because lidar was expensive at that time. At that time, one lidar cost more than 10,000 US dollars.

In order to reduce costs, visual autonomous driving algorithm is the most economical route.

If lidar only cost two hundred dollars at that time, do you think Tesla would choose this technology route?

In 2014, the government issued a document saying that it would encourage private capital to develop, launch and operate commercial remote sensing satellites and provide market-oriented and professional services. At that time, autonomous driving was already a mature concept. Why didn't people do it at that time? Because the cost was high. Now the cost has been reduced to less than $ by Guangjia Aerospace. The launch of a single satellite costs $, including the launch and the satellite.

With the speed being so low, of course everyone wants to build a network.

Didn’t you read the news? Some companies are planning to build a domestic Starlink. Telecom and Mobile have both expressed their intention to build a domestic Starlink.

Because it is worthwhile, aerospace is actually a very promising industry. In the past, the cost was too high and it was a project that only a few companies could afford.

With this cost, you will see many interesting applications.

Are we hiring satellite engineers? Of course we are. The link in the lower right corner shows our current job openings.

However, we recruit experienced people first, and fresh graduates secondly.

I have worked at Guangjia Aerospace for two years, doing satellite-related research. Can I come to work at NIO? Of course, you are welcome. Very welcome.

There should be no company in China that wants to engage in autonomous driving that would not welcome engineers with a background in Guangjia Aerospace.

If you are coming from Guangjia Aerospace, I will interview you directly. I will interview you in person. Send your resume and I will interview you in person.

There is no need to worry about any non-compete agreements, NIO will pay the penalty for you.

There is one thing that may be a bit embarrassing, that is, because NIO is also cooperating with Guangjia Aerospace, the talents we recruit in the aerospace field will first go to Guangjia Aerospace to work and study for about half a year.

We are about to sign a strategic cooperation agreement, and this is part of the strategic cooperation agreement.

You left Guangjia Aerospace to join NIO, and then went back to work. You may need some psychological adjustment.”

Don't think that entrepreneurs like Li Bin won't personally interview ordinary engineers.

For example, Ding Lei of NetEase, even after NetEase went public, he still had to personally review all internal purchase approvals for purchases over 10,000 yuan.

At that time, a reporter from NetEase News wanted to buy a camera worth more than 10,000 yuan. When the process came to Ding Lei, he refused, saying that one worth 5,000 or 6,000 yuan would be enough, and why should he buy one worth more than 10,000 yuan.

For founders of startups who are in their prime, it is normal to personally interview key candidates for key positions.

Mr. Lei would certainly not miss this kind of live broadcast craze.

No boss of a new energy vehicle company knows more about traffic than Mr. Lei.

“We are also recruiting people, and Xiaomi is also going to build its own satellite network.

Our recruitment news has been posted. We have only one principle in recruiting: engineers with sufficient experience.

The treatment Xiaomi gives is definitely good enough.”

To be honest, Xiaomi's employees are somewhat like slaves. After Xiaomi's employees leave Xiaomi and jump to other companies, other companies even find it difficult to pay their salaries because the salaries were too low before.

So much so that netizens joked that it only takes a few years of working at Xiaomi to quickly complete the transformation from a Mi fan to a Mi hater.

However, Xiaomi cars are much better than Xiaomi phones. After all, everyone is competing for the job, and you can’t recruit people unless you offer high salaries.

“In essence, if we want to achieve a breakthrough from L3 to L4 without fundamental changes in computing power, optical satellite networking is the fastest way.

The accuracy of current high-definition maps is at the meter level, while the accuracy of real-time maps taken by satellites can reach the centimeter level.

Considering that there are still many scenarios in which anti-interference capabilities are required in daily driving, there are still many software and hardware optimizations and trade-offs. The worse the anti-interference capability, the higher the misjudgment rate of automated driving.

Satellites that monitor the ground in real time can obtain the most authentic source data and prevent autonomous driving algorithms from making wrong decisions.

People didn’t do this before because of cost, and now people do it for the same reason.”

Domestic new energy vehicle companies are all competing in driverless cars, and foreign car companies also want to compete.

Whether it is Tesla or the traditional Honda, Toyota and Volkswagen, everyone wants to get in on the action.

But now everyone faces the same problem, which is the security issue.

Autonomous driving is certainly cool, but it also means that if the backend is compromised, hackers can cause the self-driving car to malfunction.

Considering that China has achieved a breakthrough in quantum computers, quantum computers can be used to crack encryption systems.

As a result, even if these car companies want to promote driverless cars, they dare not be as radical as China.

Musk made two trips to China in the second half of last year, trying to persuade China to open up exports of key materials.

Tesla is the most radical foreign car company in the field of driverless cars. On foreign video websites, car owners let their Teslas drive themselves and then do their own things.

When autonomous driving was still in its infancy in China, videos like this one from Tesla were already everywhere.

As a result, China has now begun to roll out the next level of autonomous driving. Tesla believes that its technology has reached that level, but safety cannot be guaranteed.

Whether it is the United States, Japan, or Germany, what they hope China will open up to the export of room-temperature superconductors rather than the Haohan-I quantum computer.

Because quantum computers are afraid that you have some background, just like Huawei's communication equipment, even if your reputation is good enough, they are still worried. After all, this is what the American communication equipment companies do.

They want you to directly export the raw materials of room-temperature superconductors so that they can build quantum computers themselves.

At the G7 summit that ended not long ago, these countries finally lowered their tone and no longer talked about letting China open up its technology, but instead asked China to export room-temperature superconductors.

After all, compared with assisted driving, driverless driving brings too much added value to the automotive industry.

If they don't develop driverless cars, they will just have to wait for the market to be snatched away by Chinese car companies.

In order to protect their own automobile industries, the United States and its allies can restrict them from selling to developed countries, but there is no way to restrict them from selling to the vast majority of Asian, African and Latin American countries.

Wuling Hongguang and BYD are ready to make a move, lowering the price of driverless new energy vehicles to $10,000. If you want the latest perovskite battery, then add another $2,000. How can Toyota, Toyota and Volkswagen survive?
At this point in time when various Chinese automobile companies began to launch satellites, they really could not sit still.

"Yuan Guang, we invited you here this time because we want to hear your advice."

Taking advantage of Chen Yuanguang's visit to Yenching to attend the academician conference, the core institution in charge of economics invited Chen Yuanguang to participate in their internal closed-door discussion.

The bigwigs in charge of the economy and security were all present, and everyone wanted to hear his opinions.

"The current situation is that America and Japan said that if China does not open up the export of room-temperature superconductors, they will restrict cooperation between global semiconductor supply chain-related companies and China.

Companies like Nikon, Zeiss, Tokyo Electric, etc. will stop cooperating with us."

This is the collective will.

Just like Nikon is backed by Japan and Zeiss is backed by Germany, the automobile industry is the lifeline of these two countries. Semiconductors are expendable compared to the lifeline.

(End of this chapter)