The annual salary after graduation is 2.01 million, and Alibaba and Tencent are rushing to get it. Why is this post-90s doctor so awesome?

It is such a painful realization to be unemployed right after graduation.

The graduation season of 2020 has quietly arrived, and many graduates are facing an important decision in their lives. Different from previous years, there are 8.74 million fresh graduates across the country this year, setting a new record high. Many graduates are rushing around for their graduation futures.

Nowadays, many companies are still short of people, and there are many job opportunities. Companies are not afraid of not being able to pay you, but many graduates are not qualified for the positions.

There is a graduate this year who only submitted his resume to four companies before graduation. As a result, all four companies extended an olive branch to him. In the end, he chose Huawei, and Huawei will provide him with an annual salary. With a huge contract of 2.01 million yuan, he has become the graduate with the highest employment salary this year. What is so mysterious about him?

01 Diligence can make up for weakness

His name is Zuo Pengfei, a student from a poor family. He was born in Suizhou, Hubei in 1992. He graduated from Huazhong University of Science and Technology and received a doctorate.

In 2010, Zuo Pengfei was admitted to Huazhong University of Science and Technology majoring in computer science with excellent results from Suizhou No. 1 Middle School.

In 2014, Zuo Pengfei became a direct postgraduate student of the school with his outstanding academic ability. Direct Ph.D. is an undergraduate program that skips postgraduate studies and directly obtains a doctoral degree.

You may say that to achieve such outstanding results, he must be a genius. Zuo Pengfei believes that he is not a genius, he just spends the time that others spend playing games on scientific research.

During the five years of his PhD career, he spent almost all of them in the laboratory. He is always the first one to enter the laboratory every morning and the last one to leave the laboratory after 10 o'clock in the evening. Except for meal time, he spends almost all time in the laboratory, and the same is true on weekends.

He has always believed that hard work leads to excellence rather than playfulness. Only hard work can lead to excellence in studies. If you play too hard, it will be wasted.

When Zuo Pengfei talked about his learning methods, he said frankly: I will set deadlines for different experimental tasks. This will ensure that I will not procrastinate during the experiment and develop self-discipline. Good habits. Once the habit becomes natural, you will slowly get rid of your laziness.

His tutor Professor Hua Yu once commented on him: Among all the students, he is not the most talented, but he is the one who works hardest and has the most self-discipline.

In the past five years, he has five volumes of scientific research notes. He has published more than ten scientific research papers as the first author, breaking Huazhong University of Science and Technology’s record of zero top conferences in related fields. Its gold content even exceeds some of the top international journals in the scientific community.

Zuo Pengfei believes that a high-standard doctoral graduate should be known by name in the field he studies, and should also be recognized by the leading experts in this field. This is what he strives for.

02 Specialization in Art

Many people are curious, what exactly does he study? Is it possible to have such a high annual salary at Huawei?

Zuo Pengfei studies the field of computers, focusing on the direction of "non-volatile memory systems". For example, the memory of the smartphones we use today will be marked with "4G+128G". 4G represents the running memory and 128G represents the storage space. The "non-volatile memory" studied by Zuo Pengfei is expected to merge the two types of memory and replace the original storage method of mobile phones. Of course, the same is true for computers.

The advantage of "non-volatile memory" is that under the same configuration, mobile phones can achieve greater storage capacity. At the same time, it will also reduce power consumption and speed up the operation of mobile phones. However, this technology is not yet mature at present, and there are many compatibility and security issues that require further research and resolution.

While researching, Zuo Pengfei published his research results online, and the content was basically all in English, because he had to communicate with many foreign people in the industry to facilitate communication on technical issues. .

Due to Zuo Pengfei’s remarkable academic research achievements, Huawei took the initiative to contact him before he graduated. In August last year, Zuo Pengfei had an online meeting with Huawei’s chief technology officer. During the conversation, it was determined that the future direction of work is innovation and breakthroughs in Huawei's cloud storage technology.

During this period, Zuo Pengfei applied for resumes from four companies at once, namely Huawei, Tencent, Alibaba, and Sangfor.

These four companies are all giant companies that research cloud storage. After receiving the resume, they all hope to recruit Zuo Pengfei, and the salaries they offer are very attractive. One even offers a sky-high annual salary of 3 million after tax.

In December 2019, after repeated consideration, Zuo Pengfei accepted Huawei’s offer, and Ren Zhengfei personally sent an email for approval. Huawei gave him an annual salary of 2.01 million, with an average monthly salary of 166,000. Of course, this is after tax! Coupled with five insurances and one fund, Huawei has to pay at least 3 million yuan in salary every year.

03Why choose Huawei?

First, Zuo Pengfei’s research direction is highly matched with Huawei’s position. The “storage pre-research” position provided by Huawei is very consistent with his own research direction. More importantly, Huawei can create a good research environment for him, allowing him to develop rapidly in practice.

Second, obviously the salary offered by Huawei is not the highest, but Huawei's corporate development philosophy is the most attractive to him.

Unlike many companies, Huawei has been adhering to a technology-centered development philosophy since its inception. Every year, Huawei invests most of its revenue in technology research and development, and 5G technology is a well-known example.

At Huawei, Zuo Pengfei can give full play to his strengths and has the opportunity to research and discuss with Huawei's top experts. This is a resource that is difficult for any company to have in such an environment. , Zuo Pengfei can grow quickly. Therefore, for Zuo Pengfei, who has just graduated, salary is ranked second, and learning technology and practical experience is the most important.

Zuo Pengfei said in an interview:

My ideal is to make more technological innovations and breakthroughs in the corporate world and promote the technological development of the computer industry in our country and even around the world. Development, aiming at some Turing Award masters, also hopes that its technology can serve society, benefit the general public, and feel the power brought by technological development.

Huawei is a platform that can help him realize his dream.

Just like Huawei's slogan: "Huawei - Building an Intelligent World with Everything Connected", and as Ren Zhengfei himself said:

We are not a listed company, and we are not doing it for financial reasons. Report, we are working hard to realize human ideals. No matter how difficult the conditions are, we are working hard.

It is precisely because it has always adhered to the strategy of product first and technology first that Huawei has been able to avoid following trends and hype during its 28 years of development, thereby completing market accumulation and gaining public recognition.

Huawei's success is inseparable from the efforts of Ren Zhengfei. This 70-year-old man has served as a soldier, suffered failures, and is full of epiphanies about human nature. If you want to learn about Huawei and Ren Zhengfei, you must read this "The Biography of Ren Zhengfei".

Sun Like, the author of this book, has followed Huawei for nearly ten years and conducted in-depth interviews with Ren Zhengfei many times. Over the past five years, he has reviewed nearly a million words of information on Huawei, interviewed key figures at various stages of Huawei's development history, and spoken Recording, organizing and creating this book.