What is the content of "To Ali" posted on the intranet by Ali employees?

Recently, an explosive article "To Alibaba" appeared on Alibaba's intranet. The article was written by a young Alibaba programmer. It was sharp in words and pointed directly at Alibaba's various problems. Once it was published, it immediately aroused heated discussion.

The original text is as follows:

In fact, I had the idea of ??writing this post a long time ago. I was afraid of it, but at this point in time, I finally happily join you all. Let’s share some thoughts about the company.

First of all, I think everyone has some expectations when they first enter Alibaba. No matter how we evaluate Alibaba after arriving, I think when we were outside the siege, we had a bit of admiration for the scale, performance and huge size of this company. The company may be limited in scale internationally, but when it comes to the domestic Internet Definitely a top-notch company.

So this caused me to be confused for the first time after joining Alibaba. Why does a company of this size keep selling anxiety?

As for anxiety, I believe everyone at Alibaba has a deep understanding of it. After all, the 361 system itself is designed to create anxiety.

At this point, there may be some high-profile classmates who will come out to smooth things over. We are not here to exploit our classmates in 361, but to better help them grow. To be honest, this is what you newbies are saying. Do the executives who come here believe it? If you work as a P9 for a year and get 35, do you think the company is helping you grow or is the company stupid?

I was immediately confused for the second time in Alibaba. This is a company that promotes authenticity every day and I have never seen a true word. I think it’s funny. I don’t know if the management is too old or if they are too lazy to think about it. Why can’t we talk about these things openly and fairly? Instead, we must talk about something to help you grow, help you make progress, and even deliver talents to the society. Woolen cloth?

To put it simply, if you engage in 361, we will not object, and we cannot object, right. If you accept it, you will stay. If you do not accept it, you will find another job. OK, I think everything is actually fine. .

The company openly and blatantly said that we at Alibaba are determined to strive hard. We are a very anxious company. Our purpose is not to make our employees comfortable, because comfort will make the company's development lag behind. Our Alibaba's The ideal is to surpass Amazon and become the fifth largest economy in the world, create 100 million jobs and feed 20 million people. This is fine, but can you please remove the second employee in New Six Pulse?

You may be wondering, what is the difference? I lied to you and exploited you, and I exploited you directly. Aren’t they all exploiting you? That's really a big difference. Perhaps most of the senior management are born in the 1970s and 1980s, and do not understand the post-90s generation and the soon-to-arrive post-00s generation. These people are young people who have grown up in the wind of liberal culture. We don’t like the use of mandarin politeness in both cases.

Just assume that I am a donkey, and you keep beating me with a whip. I think it is normal, and no one thinks it is abnormal. Then I am a donkey and you are the master, I think. Being lazy is a natural thing for donkeys. If you don't want me to be lazy, it's a human nature. Everyone acts according to common sense. You give me food to eat.

So if you whip me a few times and force me to do hard work, I think it’s human nature and everyone can understand it. But the problem is, you can’t whip me and ask me if I love you at the same time, right?

I believe that by now, all the young people in P6789 at the bottom already know what I am expressing, but I feel that they still can’t understand it to the higher-ups, so I need to explain it again.

Twenty years ago, Alibaba was just starting out. At that time, Alibaba was a serious startup. Alibaba faced risks that all startups face, such as being unable to pay wages. I believe the company was just starting out. At that time, it must be that this month is calculated and the next month and the next month are calculated and the next month is calculated. At that time, when recruiting people, Ali must recruit the kind of people who will follow me even if I don't give you money for half a year.

This is what Teacher Ma calls, it’s okay if you don’t recognize Jack Ma, but you must recognize what Jack Ma wants to do, and you must recognize Alibaba.

But big guys, times have changed, the Qing Dynasty has died, Alibaba has been developing for 20 years, and China’s economy has been developing for 20 years during this period. The ancestors of the people who worked for you at that time More than half of them are probably not full.

The people working for you now, whose ancestors were over 80 years old, can support their own sons and daughters. If you ask anyone now, I will let you work in a company. This company is very Okay, the culture is great and can cultivate your abilities, but if you don’t pay you for half a year, do you think people will pay attention to you?

So 20 years ago, when you bought a donkey, you had to confirm whether the donkey loved you, because you might not be able to give the donkey a stable meal. If the donkey didn't love you, you wouldn't be able to feed it enough. Donkey, the donkey will probably abandon his son and run away.

But after 20 years, if you buy a donkey, you can just feed it. The donkeys on the market are all smarter, and there are more markets. You can go to whichever house gives you food. Okay, here comes the difference for you. You are given the same food and beaten with the same whip. On one side you are forcing people to say they love you, but on the other side they are clearly telling you that you don’t love me and I don’t love you either. You do the work for me. Just give me food, but if you were a donkey, which business would you work for?

So I’m not pretending to be real. I don’t see how the company is real.

There are many topics that can be discussed immediately. Let me talk about the donkey problem first. I liken Alibaba’s employees to donkeys. I believe smart kids won’t blame me. I didn’t say they were dogs to save face. I would like to focus on explaining this to some executives who are arrogant or don’t think they are donkeys.

Let me just say one thing, donkeys don’t have to be forced to memorize values. What do you think makes Alibaba employees better than donkeys? It’s funny to say that the second item of the first item of Alibaba’s values ??is called employees second, second only to customers first.

Teacher Ma said in his speech that the company wants to raise the wages of the people at the bottom, because if you give the executives a 5,000 raise, they don't care. If you give the bottom employees a 5,000 raise, he is very happy that he can improve his family. I would like to ask all Alibaba people how many people have seen their salaries increase by 5,000 yuan.

Alibaba only raises salary once a year, and everyone knows the extent of the raise. Even if your salary is RMB 375, how much can you get?

ok Salary adjustment policy has passed, let’s talk directly about salary, not to mention Ali’s work pressure, work style and work intensity. What is the salary level of Ali people in the industry? At this time, it is estimated that many people are starting to want to raise 375 equity incentive policy.

To be honest again, isn’t the equity that 375 gives you used to negotiate for general contracting when you change jobs? Four years, after deducting taxes and accounting for inflation, do you think that’s a lot?

If you still insist that, ok, this is a lot, this is a lot, after all, some people think this is a huge sum of money, then let me tell you something else, there is a word in economics called opportunity cost. If this is the first time you hear it, you can read it in detail. If you have already studied it in depth, then you can calculate for yourself how much treatment Alibaba will give you.

Dear Ali people, all Ali people who can see this post, although Ali’s treatment of people is not very good, Ali’s recruitment standards are high. Everyone knows this.

Perhaps the only thing that Alibaba can brag about in terms of talent today is that our recruitment standards are high, very high. Why do I say this? For ordinary people, their opportunity cost is very low because they don’t work. It’s also difficult to do anything else.

But for you 985211 master's degree returnee working elites in various industries, your opportunity cost is infinitely high. Have you ever thought that there are countless Huang Zhengs lurking around you and your seniors? Cheng Wei Wangxing, and broke away from Ali's circle.

Your own strength and resources far exceed those of your peers and even surpass most of China. After all, you have eliminated a large number of graduate students, resumes, and work experience since the college entrance examination. stand out from the elimination, so you must waste the ten years of your precious time after graduation on writing PPT day after day?

What did Ali give its employees? respect? treatment? Welfare? I feel that Alibaba will be completely destroyed easily if I take out any one of them. For a company with a small market capitalization, it is normal for it to be completely destroyed.

But for a company like Alibaba that claims to be the fifth largest economy in the world, it is normal for Santiao Lian, a small-market company, to be completely destroyed. But for a company like Alibaba that claims to be the fifth largest economy in the world, As a monolithic company, wouldn’t you think it was pathetic, ridiculous, or even infamy for eternity if it couldn’t even take out one of the three?

Is this the feeling of Ali people? I would like to ask the low-P Alibaba people here, when was the last time you took more than 10 days of annual leave? What do you mean it's not important?

The year before last, I remember that not long after Teacher Ma retired, he came back to the intranet to post a message saying that he wanted to save elephants.

I find it funny to say that the living space of elephants has been squeezed, and the conflict with humans is getting increasingly serious. Is there anything that Alibaba can do with so many people and so many resources?

Teacher Ma, Mr. Ma, please take time out of your busy schedule to look at your employees. Your employees’ living space has also been squeezed, and the conflict with their ideal life is becoming increasingly serious. There are so many people in Alibaba, With so many resources, is there anything you can do for your own employees?

Teacher Ma said a word, and a bunch of people came out in full force. I remember that I also sent an ata to make a summary. I guess it will take some effort to implement it in the end. I was thinking, if these thoughts can be divided into What will happen to the 130,000 employees of Alibaba? You always become the richest man in the country from time to time.

If you go and save the elephant, I will rely on my great kindness image. The company’s stock price may rise. Is it useful to us?

The elephant can’t live any longer, and my child can’t go to a school district room. Which one is more important? Why do children of the same age get home half an hour earlier and go to bed half an hour earlier every day, while my child is born half an hour shorter than others? Do you think Alibaba’s employees are more comfortable, or do you think Alibaba’s care in all aspects is more complete?

I still remember the first Dragon Boat Festival when I came to the company. The cafeteria spontaneously gave each of the classmates a rice dumpling. A RMB shopping card costs 13 million, but what about employees? That is a reflection of the company's ability to remember itself.

Even if I don’t have the ability, I don’t dare to start a business, and I have worked so hard to be a donkey on the millstone for you, and I still have to say I love you while working. You can remember me even for small sections. Even if you send a greeting card with the Alibaba logo to your employees, it is better than doing nothing at all, right?

Oh, the Dragon Boat Festival is not important either, so just pretend I didn’t say it.

When a boy chases a girl, the girl will always say a lot of things. Although they are small, it does not mean that you can stop doing them. If you don't do them, it only means that you are lazy and don't care about me. I hope the company The higher-ups really listen. In a company with 130,000 people, the welfare system is naturally difficult to implement, but it is not difficult. What do you need to do?

So in the final analysis, Ali is just a giant baby who has not grown up to me. In terms of size, Alibaba is second to none in the domestic Internet industry, but in terms of self-confidence, Alibaba Mao has no self-confidence.

Of course you can say, eh, if the company wants to develop, it cannot be confident and must be anxious, but is this the reason why you keep instilling anxiety into the bottom employees? How serious is the phenomenon of reinventing the wheel within Alibaba? Does this bring about competitiveness where a hundred flowers bloom or is it a waste of manpower by copying? What is the essence of this phenomenon?

You can say that being a programmer is a very ordinary but extraordinary job, because every programmer has a certain degree of recognition of his profession deep down in his heart. What does it mean? To put it simply, For programmers, working overtime is actually not a big problem. I believe anyone who likes programming will recognize this sentence. Sometimes you really lose track of time when writing the code you want.

But the question is, under the devastation of the 361 system, will you choose to write the code you like or choose to write the code that can bring you real money and silver rewards? Why do groups always like to reinvent the wheel? Essentially, the cost of innovation is too high, so everyone will choose the vested interests in front of them as much as possible.

Alibaba may feel aggrieved at this point, because some of the problems I mentioned are common to all Internet companies, but there is a saying that we are Alibaba, and Alibaba cannot be small. The growth rate of Alibaba's annual financial reports has also been striding forward on a very stable track.

Why should such a company, which is growing rapidly and is still in its prime, be willing to be mediocre and refuse to try and be the leader in that industry? Is it right if everyone does this?

All Internet companies are exploiting employees and selling anxiety. Is this the reason why Alibaba can be like all companies on the market?

Yes, I admit that if everything I mentioned in this article were put into other small companies with hundreds of people, I don’t think I would have so many complaints, because small companies are small. It does not need to have any sense of industry mission or responsibility. It is just a mayfly in troubled times. It will be just like others. But when it comes to Alibaba, doesn't it feel despairing?

If the boss of an industry refuses to stand up and say something or do something, and still follows the trend like other juniors, where is the hope and future of this industry?

Alibaba has to solve the business problems of 10 million small and medium-sized merchants and create 100 million jobs all day long. What next? Slogans like this can only make Ali great, but can they make Ali better? Teacher Ma once said impassionedly that we don’t pursue greatness, we only pursue good. Have we done that?

Today, I believe that every Alibaba person here has a deep feeling about how popular Alibaba is in the recruitment market. Let’s review for ourselves, Alibaba’s recruitment five years ago, and Alibaba’s current situation Is recruiting a feeling?

Five years ago, I believed Alibaba was a good company and I was willing to let others come to Alibaba to get full training and growth. Today, five years later, I ask myself, why should we let people come in? Forget about that ridiculous recruitment KPI that everyone has to memorize?

As a digression here, I think Alibaba has given a realistic answer to the difference between economic and political systems. No matter how big an economy becomes, its essence is still business behavior, and business means cost and benefit.

The saying "Business talks about business" is a truth that applies to everyone. I wonder how long Alibaba can last if it is a political body with 130,000 people? Of course, you can say that we are a business entity, so please don’t make false slogans about employees being second, okay, who are you trying to fool? . .

Many people may think that I have a lot of resentment, but to be honest, what I have is not resentment, but disappointment.

It is not easy for any company, an enterprise, or a private enterprise to achieve what it is today, not easy, very not easy, except for the hard work and hard work of the founder and employees of the company. , which also requires countless people with the right time, right place, and the right people.

But no matter what, Ali did it. Ali lived to the age of twenty completely and healthily, and what is clear is that Ali will most likely be able to survive the next twenty years. This is such a strong young man who is 190cm tall and weighs 200 pounds. Faced with the dirty world, he chooses to remain silent, ignore or even choose to obey.

This choice is inherently disdainful and sad. Ali has been selling anxiety, selling anxiety about growth. However, if we throw away Ali’s size that seems too big to fail, we I would like to ask all Alibaba people here, especially Alibaba’s top executives, do you want such a big and useless halo, or do you want the joy of doing some challenges and reforms that can be remembered by future generations?

It is true that Alibaba’s annual net profits of tens of billions can definitely support a lot of high-profile celebrities, but living under such a halo, you are still just a high-profile celebrity after all. A few years later, when you mention the current P10P11 Who can remember the name?

When Alibaba makes reforms, changes and challenges, it will inevitably face risks. Maybe one day this company will fall apart and pass away quietly, but is this important?

Should we choose to die as brilliantly as fireworks, or should we choose to crawl in the dark process of human history and become a speck of dust? And it’s true that if you change 361, change the company culture, and change the company system, will the company definitely fail?

Ali is living like a zombie today, and the reputation is getting worse every day. Everyone wants to get a piece of the pie instead of adding to the fire. Does it make sense? Such a company is really good, and living is not much more meaningful than being dead.

Countless times when I was at the Hangzhou headquarters, I looked at the brightly lit office buildings from 10 to 1 o'clock in the evening. It was like a red-hot furnace. How many Alibaba people were burning their youth and passion. , trying to find our own ideals in this complicated country, but what the company gives us back is nothing but confusion and perfunctory.

I have talked about remuneration, salary increases, performance appraisals, and employee benefits many times in this article because I have been trying to find evidence that the company values ??its employees since I joined Alibaba. It is true that remuneration is important, but For a truly cultured, passionate, flesh-and-blood, affectionate company, treatment is really not that important.

After all, people’s spiritual needs are constantly developing upwards, and food and clothing are only the most basic needs. But the problem is that a company with a broken culture and poor treatment will only continue to discredit and consume Alibaba. The aura that makes people look envious and admirable needs to be constantly maintained, otherwise no matter how great the aura is, it will eventually fade one day.

Finally, let me tell you something about myself. Alibaba should be the last career experience in my life. I am personally very grateful to be able to work in Alibaba. Although it is not a long time, I have to say that I can come to Alibaba. Baba was very important to my personal growth.

I don’t look like the Alibaba elite you are looking at. There is no derogatory meaning. I am just a student who graduated from an ordinary college and did not go to graduate school, so I really think Alibaba is indeed a big boss. Yunji, of course, for many college masters, Alibaba is just an ordinary choice among many, but for me, Alibaba is the place I have always wanted to come to since I graduated.

In fact, Alibaba has taught me a lot. Thanks to platforms like Alibaba, I have seen a lot and learned a lot in Alibaba. But how should I put it, it’s still the same sentence, opportunity cost.

Today’s Alibaba is not the choice with the lowest opportunity cost, especially the 996 work model. There is a high probability that what you spend your youth in exchange for is just an empty shell. Many of your achievements are not yours. Yes, it’s all about the platform. Regardless of the platform, it’s possible that you are really just doing the same thing over and over again for ten years.

Maybe the workplace is not suitable for me after all, but I only dare to say this after I have experienced Alibaba. It’s a part-time job. There are only a few big companies in the IT circle. I I feel that I have really reached the end. Of course, I can also go to a foreign company, but the moon of a foreign company should not be that far away. In fact, part-time work is required anywhere. It can only be said that my personal personality is not suitable.

The purpose of what I say is to tell you one thing. Just because I criticize Alibaba does not mean that I deny Alibaba. I personally do not have much prejudice against Alibaba. I believe that these points I accuse are also true. It has always been something that many people want to say but dare not say. After all, everyone has a big family waiting for dinner. If I hadn't really come to this day, I would never dare to do it before.

How should I put it? Politicians talk in official terms and do face-saving projects because politics itself does not produce benefits. The benefits of politics are all attached. Politics itself is about rights. Rights, to put it bluntly. Be obedient or not, and the biggest characteristic of rights is their uniqueness. In any circle, rights are unique, and it is impossible for two evenly matched rights to exist for a long time.

What does this mean? To engage in economics, you should not learn to engage in politics. You will not be able to learn it, you will not be able to play it, and the results will be very poor. Economies are diverse. For example, if I am an employee of Alibaba and I resign, I can go to Tencent, but does politics allow you to do this?

Have you ever left one organization and joined another? Because of the uniqueness of rights, rights play with people's hearts and dignity. Therefore, civil servants and state-owned enterprises can do things in a flashy way, but the economy does not have this characteristic. If you play tricks, others may not cooperate. . . What's more, the economy itself will directly generate benefits and requires hard work.

So in the end, I really can’t help but want to complain about formalism such as "How to listen to music", so let’s stop.

The green mountains never change and the green waters always flow. To all the heroes and heroes of Ali, our acquaintance depends on fate. Once you come, take care of yourself. If you really can’t stay, don’t force yourself. Everyone can only live. Once, only this time, whether to choose peace and stability day after day or to be vigorous and glorious for a while, there is no advantage or disadvantage in itself.

I just hope that all the big guys can truly understand their true intentions and stick to their true nature. The mountains are high and the road is far. See you in the world!