HEYTEA layoffs: In general, 30% of employees were involved, some departments were completely laid off, excessive overtime, delayed year-end bonuses, infighting in the company, and gangs broke out.
According to Sina Finance, HEYTEA is implementing layoffs within the company. The layoffs were started a year ago, and some more will be laid off after the year, involving 30% of employees in total. Some employees claim that there is no year-end bonus for all employees, while others say that it is “deferred”. The information security department was completely cut, and the store expansion department was cut by 50%. Laid off employees will receive normal N+1 compensation, or they can choose to be internally transferred to other departments, such as technical positions to business positions. The annual meeting has no meals and few benefits. Employees are forced to stay at 10 o’clock in the evening and participate until 12 o’clock in the middle of the night. On the live broadcast screen of the annual meeting, messages such as salary increases and year-end bonuses covered the whole screen.
Internal analysis believes that the development of HEYTEA has reached a bottleneck period, and the store department is no longer important. At present, most of HEYTEA’s employees are in a state of “lying flat” and watching. This large-scale layoff has caused the excessive overtime work, delayed year-end bonuses, and infighting in the company to break out at HEYTEA, making the employees extremely negative. A HEYTEA employee revealed that the 3-month year-end bonus promised on entry was cancelled when he heard that the bonus was cancelled. Like many young new consumer companies, HEYTEA has also been exposed to problems such as chaotic internal management, obvious infighting, and unclear systems by employees.
Some ex-employees revealed, “This layoff is partly the result of political struggles. The senior management team of HEYTEA rarely stays for two years. Usually they leave in more than a year, and some are fired in half a year. The gangs are very obvious. Previously, the executives were from Tencent, and the internal team was replaced by people from Tencent; before that, they were all from Vipshop.” If employees belong to the executive faction, they will get good performance appraisals even if they try to fish. This kind of internal management is too much for many employees, so there is a lot of staff turnover within HEYTEA, and few people have been there for two years.
Domestic News
Tencent fresh graduates anger management follow-up: it is reported that he has resigned and is marked as never hired
Some time ago, there was a topic #TencentGraduates who are angry with the management# on the hot search, and received the attention and discussion of a large number of netizens.
It is reported that the origin of the incident is that on the evening of January 25th, a fresh graduate employee of Tencent’s WeChat company in a large group within the department, due to the high-intensity overtime problem caused by “rushing the version”, sent a message to the management angrily. The employee mentioned that the company’s product department recently sent instant incentives such as the “Breakthrough Self Award”. In a comment on one of the employees, it was mentioned that the employee had been designing and developing in parallel for more than 20 consecutive hours in order to launch the internal test project. In the 4.0 project of the enterprise WeChat and WeChat customer service official website, the employee continued to develop for 1 week after completing the development. High-strength completed more than 200 product and design walkthrough modifications.
At present, it is reported that he has left Tencent and has been marked as “never hired” by the personnel department. Not only will he not be able to continue to join Tencent, but even if he joins other big Internet companies, he will most likely be rejected. (Fast Technology)
The original Wind employee who jumped to station B was claimed for 2 million, and won the second instance: competition restrictions should not hinder the re-employment of engineers
According to the 21st Century Business Herald, Wang, a former data analyst at Wind, joined station B as a software engineer. He was found to have violated the non-compete agreement and applied for labor arbitration. He demanded compensation of 2 million yuan for liquidated damages at ten times the annual salary of the previous year. . According to the first-instance judgment of the Shanghai Pudong New Area People’s Court, Wang should continue to perform the non-compete dispute and must pay Wind a penalty of 240,000 yuan for breaching the non-compete, which is equivalent to Wang’s salary for the year before his departure. Wang refused to accept the verdict and appealed.
Recently, the Shanghai No. 1 Intermediate Court made a second-instance judgment: It is impossible to determine that Wonder and Station B constitute a competitive relationship based only on the overlap of business scopes. Limit liquidated damages of 2 million yuan.
The No. 1 Intermediate People’s Court pointed out that the business scope of Internet companies often overlaps to a certain extent when they are registered. If only this is the basis, it will obviously cause great obstacles to the reemployment of Internet employees, especially software engineers, and cause great harm to social human resources. The waste is also contrary to the legislative intent of the non-compete system.
Official response to the sudden death of employees working overtime at station B: communicate with their families about the aftermath, and recruit 1,000 more people to reduce work pressure
On the evening of February 8, the official of Station B responded to the sudden death of an employee working overtime on the Weibo platform again, and posted a document saying “sorrowful mourning for the loss of a life”. Station B stated that the deceased employee joined the Wuhan branch of Station B in May 2020. After the incident, the aftermath of the incident was not handled well. At present, the matter has been communicated with the family members, and the recruitment of reviewers will be expanded, and 1,000 more people will be recruited to reduce the per capita work pressure. .
Lei Jun: Xiaomi Group officially established a high-end strategic working group, and won the first domestic high-end mobile phone market share within three years
Lei Jun, chairman and CEO of Xiaomi, said on Weibo on February 8 that the high-end strategy seminar held by Xiaomi Group on the afternoon of the 8th made it clear: the high-end road is the only way for Xiaomi’s growth, and it is also the battle of life and death for Xiaomi’s development, and will be unswerving. Execute the premiumization strategy. Lei Jun said that Xiaomi Group has formally established a high-end strategic working group. Under the leadership of the strategy of “three-year mobile phone sales in the world”, the high-end strategic goal has been clarified: products and experiences must be fully benchmarked against the iPhone, and domestic high-end mobile phones will be won within three years. The market share is the first, and the “5-year 100 billion” research and development plan is resolutely implemented.
It is reported that the Xiaomi Pengpai P1 chip is not self-developed, Nanxin Semiconductor responded: the news is not true
A few days ago, some Weibo users said that Xiaomi’s self-developed Pengpai P1 chip was purchased externally, not self-developed. Nanxin Semiconductor issued an announcement saying that the Pengpai P1 chip was designed by Xiaomi and manufactured by Nanxin Semiconductor (internal code SC8561). It is completely different from the Nanxin SC8571 topology released in September last year. It is a different design, different function, different Positioned two charging chips.
Tesla’s Chinese customer service responded that some vehicles were exposed to a reduction in allocation: all the vehicles that left the factory met the regulations
According to the US Consumer News and Business Channel (CNBC) report, Tesla’s internal letter shows that in response to the shortage of chips, Tesla has reduced the allocation of Model 3 and Model Y cars made in Shanghai, and removed the electronic power steering system. one of the two electronic control units. Tesla China’s official customer service responded that “every vehicle we leave the factory must comply with national regulations.”
China Mobile: The metaverse concept is still in the early stages of development, and the company will actively monitor its development
In a recent institutional survey, China Mobile stated that the concept of Metaverse is still in its early stage of development, involving many industries and application scenarios. ) as the focus of new information infrastructure. In the future, it can provide the computing power required for real modeling and interaction, and large-scale virtual content production experience to meet the needs of ultra-low latency and ultra-large bandwidth.
Douyin search and Apple Siri reached a cooperation, “moving your mouth” can search for videos
Douyin Search announced a partnership with Apple’s Siri, allowing iPhone users to directly search Douyin’s video content through Siri voice commands. It is reported that this is the first time that Siri has cooperated with a short video category App for this function in the world. Previously, users needed to manually open Douyin and search for keywords. After connecting to Siri, they could directly wake up Douyin and automatically jump to the search results page by issuing a voice command through Siri.
The stock price of Ningde Times fell sharply, saying that it did not consult the agency about the possibility of being sanctioned by the United States
On February 8, the stock price of Ningde Times closed down 6.66%, and fell 9.94% during the session. Compared with the record high in December last year, the share price of CATL has fallen by about 20%. After the market closed, Ningde Times responded to the media, saying that it was false information that the company had consulted with U.S. agencies about the possibility of being sanctioned.
The rumor shows that CATL is seeking help from professional institutions in the United States to consult the possibility of being sanctioned by the United States. Yesterday, a number of Chinese companies suffered a sharp drop in their stock prices because they were included in the unverified list by the United States. But the Ningde era was not included. However, it is worth mentioning that its supplier Haimuxing was in the light, and its stock price fell 7.41% on the day.
international news
Arm CEO has resigned, unrelated to Nvidia abandoning acquisition deal
According to foreign media reports, Arm CEO Simon Higgs has resigned and handed over the job to Rene Haas, president of Arm’s IP products division. Sources said the resignation of Simon Higgs as CEO had nothing to do with the deal falling through.
According to Arm’s official website information, Simon Higgs is a veteran of the company and one of the company’s first employees. He became the company’s vice president of engineering in 2001 and was appointed CEO in July 2013. more than 8 years. Rene Haas, currently a member of Arm’s executive committee, will succeed Simon Segars as the new CEO and join the board in preparation for the IPO.
Apple’s spring new product launch event may be held on March 8
Apple is planning to unveil the iPhone SE 3 5G and the new iPad Air 5 at a new product event in March. Specifically, Apple will hold a new iPhone SE launch event on or near Tuesday, March 8. According to previous reports, the new iPhone SE 3 will be similar to the 2020 iPhone SE 2 version (based on the iPhone 8), but it will use a faster A-series chip, possibly the A15, and 5G technology. It is also expected to include improved cameras. In addition, a new entry-level MacBook Pro with an M2 chip will also be unveiled, which cancels the Touch Bar design and will replace the M1 model launched in November 2020.
EU announces “Chip Act” plan to significantly increase the share of chip production
On February 8, the European Commission announced the “Chip Act”. Under the bill, the EU will invest more than 43 billion euros in public and private funding to support chip production, pilot projects and start-ups. Of this, 11 billion euros will be used to strengthen existing research, development and innovation to ensure the deployment of advanced semiconductor tools and pilot production lines for prototyping, testing, etc. The EU plans to increase its share of global chip production from the current 10% to 20% by 2030.
EU responds to Meta exit threat: Life is good without Facebook
On Thursday, Meta threatened in its annual report that if it could not rely on new or existing protocols to transfer data, it “may not be able to provide many of our most important products and services in Europe, including Facebook and Instagram.”
In response, German Economy Minister Robert Habeck told reporters at an event in Paris with French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire: “After being hacked, I have not used Facebook and Twitter for four years, and life has been very difficult. good.”
Entering the field of lidar, Amazon invested 200 million US dollars in the head company Velodyne
According to Bloomberg, Amazon has reached an agreement with lidar maker Velodyne to acquire 39 million shares, or nearly 16 percent, of the latter. Under the agreement, Amazon.com NV Investment Holdings, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Amazon, can exercise the warrants on or before February 4, 2030 at a price of $4.18 (about RMB 26.57) per share.
It is reported that the certified shares will gradually vest according to the “discretionary payment” of up to 200 million US dollars (about 1.27 billion yuan) paid by Amazon to Velodyne. Under the terms of the deal, Amazon can appoint a board observer if it holds more than 12.3 million shares. Amazon will also boost its self-driving business by buying a stake in the head-sensor maker.
Apple’s App Store fails to meet third-party payment requirements for dating apps, Netherlands fines another 5 million euros
According to Reuters, the Netherlands Authority for Consumer and Markets (ACM) has fined Apple 5 million euros (about 36.5 million yuan) for the third week in a row for allegedly failing to meet its regulations on dating Requirements for applying alternative payment systems.
ACM said it still has not received enough information from Apple to assess whether Apple has properly complied with the order. The competition watchdog will continue to fine Apple 5 million euros a week, up to 50 million euros (about 365 million yuan), until it finds the company has complied.
Apple plans to introduce ‘tap to pay’ feature on iPhone
Apple announced on its official website on February 8 that it plans to launch the “Tap to pay” feature on the iPhone, which is a contactless payment method. Merchants only need to prompt customers to use iPhones or Apple Watches that are close to the merchants to make payments, and the payments will be done securely through NFC technology. No additional hardware is required to use the “click to pay” feature, and all transactions using this feature will be encrypted through the secure element.
Microsoft to buy cybersecurity firm Mandiant at $3.6 billion
According to reports, people familiar with the matter said that Microsoft is preparing to buy cybersecurity company Mandiant, which is still in the negotiation stage.
FireEye acquired Mandiant in 2013, and last year it sold its product business and the FireEye name to a consortium for $1.2 billion, making Mandiant an independent entity. Mandiant, valued at about $3.6 billion, focuses on cyber incident response and cybersecurity testing. In 2021, when Microsoft acquired two small cybersecurity companies, it had said it would invest $20 billion in cybersecurity over the next five years.
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