Chapter 209 Fan Wubing’s Way to Employ People
Although the interface style of Windows 95 is completely different from that of Dos system, its kernel is still related, so the developer who chose WPS asked Bojun to develop a new word processing system, and the starting point is correct.
But everyone is a little suspicious, can Fan Wubing dig up someone?
Faced with everyone's questions, Fan Wubing smiled and said, "Of course, it's best to be able to dig people. Even if you can't dig them, it doesn't matter. In short, we must make this word processing software that competes with Office. As the saying goes, lose people but not lose people, and now there are neither losers nor losers."
In fact, Fan Wubing still has reservations about this. He has learned from industry insiders that Qiu Bojun is not doing well now.
In order to develop WPS, Qiu Bojun locked himself in a room in Shenzhen. He kept writing whenever he was awake. Whenever he was sleepy, he would sleep for a while and eat instant noodles when he was hungry. In such a year and four months, Qiu Bojun got sick three times, the first time hepatitis, the second time hepatitis recurred, and the third time hepatitis recurred, and each time he was hospitalized for one month to two months. The second time hepatitis recurred was the most critical moment of software development, so Qiu Bojun simply moved the computer to the ward to continue writing.
Later he recalled that the pain of development was not caused by illness, not physical and mental exhaustion, but loneliness. When there were problems, I didn’t know who to ask, solved the problems, and no one shared the joy. In this loneliness, he wrote down more than 100,000 lines of WPS, and when he finished writing the last line of the program, he no longer felt anything.
Any time-consuming and labor-intensive product will often not have any thoughts after being successfully made. Most of the so-called thoughts are summarized later to earn royalties.
Last year, Microsoft's office had a great impact on the market occupied by WPS, so Qiu Bojun also wanted to create his own product similar to the Office suite, called Pangu Component, which contains WPS, spreadsheets and dictionaries.
However, judging from the results of Pangu’s launch this year, it is very bad.
First of all, Pangu's power was dispersed and he did not give full play to the leading advantage of WPS in the field of word processing at that time. Secondly, he did not use the very appealing name WPS. Thirdly, Pangu himself was not perfect enough and did not achieve what he saw in office. It was a copy of the Dos version. Another important reason is that his newly independent Zhuhai Jinshan Company had no sales experience.
They were originally just a development department, and they did not have the ability to independently develop the market in terms of manpower and material resources. After the Pangu system came out, they had to do all the sales, publicity, and planning activities by themselves, and they could not cope with it for a while, which eventually led to failure.
Moreover, due to the failure of the newly developed Pangu system this year, Qiu Bojun's previous bonuses were basically lost, and the salary of these programmers in the company was difficult to maintain. If it weren't for his strong influence, he would have disbanded long ago.
Fan Wubing felt that taking advantage of others' dangers is a bit unrealistic, but if you miss this opportunity, it is a bit unrealistic to poach people. Many of the people who are programmers are arrogant, with the attitude of being the best in the world, and have a very bad temper of intellectuals. Even if you give money now, it depends on whether your attitude is sincere enough.
At the meeting, Fan Wubing and others set a charter to give priority to the development of the software business, and the company invested 100 million yuan to develop the Office-like system, and began to absorb outstanding young programmers nationwide as their company's technical reserves.
"We need not only programmers, but also some interesting small software. If it is indeed worth developing after investigation, we can consider a one-time acquisition. For programmers with successful development experience, they should give them a reasonable salary as much as possible." Fan Wubing finally concluded, "At present, our competitor is Microsoft, and its main direction is word processing system, which is also what most users use the most. As for the operating system, let's forget it first."
Fan Wubing is very clear-headed and knows how difficult it is to build an operating system. That is not something that can be done with money. Even if Microsoft wants to launch a new operating system, it will take several years of technical accumulation. Tens of thousands of employees can do it. Just rely on these few people and guns now, how can it be done?
Moreover, the operating system is not something that can be used just by making it. It is more of a recognition of values. An operating system that is rejected by the international community cannot have a market. If you do that kind of thing yourself, you are simply seeking death.
After the meeting, when Fan Wubing was about to leave, Shen Manhua called him to stop.
Fan Wubing still attaches great importance to Shen Manhua, who helped her cheat a lot of money. Although she has a low education, she has a deep experience. In the position of an executive, sometimes being a person is more important than being able to do things, so Fan Wubing has always kept her in a more important position.
This time, I was preparing to make a big move in the software industry, so I immediately pulled Shen Manhua out and helped him to the position of senior manager of the software business department. I obviously valued it very much.
"Well, do you have any different opinions?" Fan Wubing stopped and asked.
Shen Manhua asked hesitantly, "Mr. Fan, it is of course a good thing for you to pay attention to me, but I really want to be competent in the head of the software department, right? This is where senior intellectuals stay. Do you know what I am in?"
Fan Wubing is more familiar with Shen Manhua's concerns.
Shen Manhua is somewhat inferior for this academic qualification, so she has always been a relatively low-key executive in the company, but Fan Wubing attaches great importance to her, especially her talent in interpersonal relationships.
This is also easy to understand. If you don’t have a precise grasp of human nature, how can you be a successful liar? Shen Manhua obviously has superhuman talents in this regard, so Fan Wubing asked her to deceive the Japanese and even kept her in the company with a high salary.
So Fan Wubing smiled and said to her, "Don't worry, I let you take this position. It's definitely not that I want to see your jokes, but that I think no one is more suitable to deal with these stubborn programmers than you."
Before 1994, the most famous person in the Chinese IT industry was not Lenovo, Founder, the president of Great Wall, nor the CEO of ibm, hp, compaq, but the great names of programmers written on the cover of the program, such as Qiu Bojun, Wu Xiaojun, Bao Yueqiao, Wang Zhidong, Wang Jiangmin, etc. When thousands of users start using these signed articles every day, they are full of high-profile feelings towards these programmers. ヒYunai A programmer can start a company and achieve his career and reputation with his own source programs like martial arts books. But now, the heroic era of a single programmer who is alone in the world is gone forever.
With the continuous improvement of hardware technology and the rapid development of hard disk box memory technology, software based on Windows systems is becoming increasingly large, and a large number of programmers need to work together to complete it. If you want to sign the author on a software like Word, you can't finish writing hundreds of names.
From a developmental perspective, personal talent is simply incomparable to well-organized software factories.
But Fan Wubing knew that these programmers had their talents that should not be underestimated. Compared with gaining wealth and reputation, or many people were more concerned about whether they could continue to write better software, so they needed to be very cautious about their management.
For sales staff or managers, giving them a higher salary and more bonuses, all problems can be solved, it is nothing more than money, and everything is easier to deal with. But for programmers, it is not just a matter of money. First of all, you must learn to respect others. Intellectuals have their own special temperaments and are not easy to communicate with. Secondly, you must give programmers an environment that can play, and you cannot get stuck too hard. Developing programs is a creative job, and you cannot force others to complete as many codes within a few days.
Writing programs is basically the same as writing novels. If the idea is opened, you may not be able to write a small software for a day. If there is no inspiration, you may not be able to write it out in a month.
Based on this understanding, Fan Wubing decided to let Shen Manhua serve as the head of this new department. He had professionals to take care of technical issues, but the interpersonal management issues must be taken care of by people like Shen Manhua. If programmers are used to manage programmers, unpredictable consequences may occur.
After hearing Fan Wubing explain to him, Shen Manhua realized that Fan Wubing was using it in the quantity.
Afterwards, Fan Wubing explained again, "Of course, a genius programmer has a certain role, but it is not that important for a team. The permissions I give you are complete. If you think someone is indeed not suitable to stay in the company, you have the right to make a decision."
"Thank you." Shen Manhua was very moved when he heard Fan Wubing's words.
At least since Fan Wubing used her to deceive the Japanese, she never let her return to her old career. Instead, she gave her a decent job opportunity and high-tech that others could not imagine, allowing her to regain a space for development. This kind of kindness is indeed difficult to repay.
"Actually, I have also taught myself a lot in the past few years, but I didn't have the courage to take a serious diploma." Shen Manhua said to Fan Wubing in a low voice.
Fan Wubing smiled and said, "That's right. Even if you are a scam, you need skills."
Chapter completed!