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Inside the temporary examination room in the Southeast Building.

The excitement over the standard ROG computers didn't last long.

As soon as 10 o'clock arrived, the 500 job seekers present began to take the exam.

For these young mechanical and construction engineers, the content of the exam is nothing more than what is related to the project design that Cube Technology can implement in the future.

As for those examination questions that test the basics of teaching, there were not a single one.

For example, the exam questions assigned to applicants for the position of construction engineer include the planning and design of employee dormitory quarters, vegetable factories, and group headquarters buildings.

This also includes the design plan that Chen Jue had previously conceived, which was based on the MSG Sphere (Las Vegas Giant Ballpark) and was aimed at the renovation of the facade of the Rubik's Cube Factory.

As for the test questions for mechanical engineers, they combine the functional improvement of the Rubik's Cube arm with the functional design of engineering vehicles and engineering ships, etc.

In short, the test questions are varied and are open-ended brain tests with no accurate answers. The outlines of most of the questions were thought up by Chen Jue, the boss himself.

This is just like the Chinese composition in the college entrance examination. Every candidate will have his or her own understanding and ideas after getting the outline.

The reason why Chen Jue took the trouble to organize such a unique job test was that he wanted to recruit some professionals with "brilliant ideas" and "open-minded imagination" for himself.

After all, his personal imagination is limited, and the development of MC props for practical application is relatively slow.

If they could pool their wisdom through collective efforts and unknowingly infiltrate the capabilities of the MC system into the company they founded, then the Cube Technology that Chen Jue had high hopes for would have a hope of going further in the future.

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The sounds of keyboard typing and mouse operation were frequently heard in the examination hall.

As soon as it was 10 o'clock, these engineers who were familiar with the high-configuration new computers rolled up their sleeves and began their familiar design operations.

However, compared to other job seekers who were able to answer the test questions with ease, Wang Zhiyuan, who was sitting in seat 096, could not help but look stunned at this moment.

"Combining the performance of existing robotic arm materials of Cube Technology, can we design and develop mechanical functionalities? Applications include civil engineering, mechanical cutting, mining hoisting, etc."

"This topic is quite novel and open-ended, and it is accompanied by a video of the blade switching of that super engineering ship for visitors to see." Wang Zhiyuan muttered softly.

As a local mechanical engineer in Rui County, Wang Zhiyuan joined a local Japanese-owned mechanical processing company in Rui County to engage in design work after graduating from university, and has been working there for more than 10 years.

Seeing that he was already in his 30s and was neither too high nor too low a job, and the Japanese company happened to be planning to lay off employees, Wang Zhiyuan looked for a new job on a job-hunting app.

I interviewed with many companies in the same industry, and either their salaries were cut in half, or they required intensive overtime.

Finally, after many twists and turns, I accidentally discovered Cube Technology, a rising local company.

After all, the salary of mechanical design practitioners in Rui County, Wenzhou is mostly around 1 to 1.5 yuan per month.

Joint ventures will pay slightly higher wages, but due to their large scale, the management is basically controlled by foreigners, and the room for promotion and salary increase is very limited.

There are not many companies like Cube Technology that offer entry-level design positions with a base salary of 2 right from the start!

What makes a middle-aged man like Wang Zhiyuan, who is over 30, even more excited is that Cube Technology does not discriminate against older job seekers.

You should know that in recent years, when the big Internet companies in big cities encountered poor performance, they would first cut off the middle-aged veterans at the grassroots level.

They call you brother when they are young, and then after squeezing out their employees’ youth for more than ten years, they kick them away with a simple “if anyone doesn’t create any effect for me, he or she is not my brother”.

Because in the eyes of the management of those big companies, the middle-aged grassroots workers around 40 years old cannot work overtime, they want high salaries, and they have many thoughts, so they can't compete with the cheap labor force just graduated in the workplace. It's better to optimize them as soon as possible and send them to Didi, food delivery, and express delivery as consumables.

However, this kind of age discrimination in the workplace, which is almost becoming a common phenomenon, is not found at Cube Technology.

Looking around the entire examination room, engineers aged 40 to 50 are everywhere, some of them have completely grey hair and even wear reading glasses.

Because in the eyes of the boss Chen Jue, designers are just like the old masters in the machine tool factory. Generally, the older they are, the better their skills are.

According to the classic 1-hour rule, when a person has accumulated more than hours of work in a certain field, he can become an expert in that field.

Wang Zhiyuan has worked in the mechanical design industry for 10 years, with a length of work experience of more than 2 hours. As soon as he got this semi-open topic, he immediately came up with a lot of fresh ideas.

Because for a designer, the less restrained he is, the more he can unleash his imagination.

But when Wang Zhiyuan saw the material performance parameters listed on the screen, he almost felt numb!

“The density is 8.5g/cm, the melting point is between 1360℃-1420℃, the tensile strength is ≥850MPa, the yield strength is ≥480MPa, the elongation is ≥12%, and the flexural strength is ≥1140MPa.”

"Hiss~ Why are the parameters of this material so high!" Wang Zhiyuan took a breath of cold air.

Having worked in a Japanese-funded enterprise for more than 10 years, I was mostly designing auto and motorcycle parts for the local market in Rui County, using either aluminum alloy or cast iron parts. I had never come across such cutting-edge processing materials with amazing performance.

He was not the only one who was shocked when he received the test paper. At least one-fifth of the 500 people in the audience drew this question.

Many older and more knowledgeable mechanical engineers recognized the origin of the material parameters as soon as they saw them: "This... this is using single crystal alloy to make modular plug-in groups and integral parts for the robotic arm?"

"How much does a robotic arm like this cost? 500 million to start?"

"Really! These parameters look like the second-generation nickel-based high-temperature alloy. DD406 should have this performance indicator."

"It seems that Cube Technology is planning to enter the high-end CNC industrial robot market!"

Hearing the private whispers of the middle-aged men at the table, Wang Zhiyuan became cautious and immediately checked online for DD406, an alloy material that was somewhat unfamiliar to him.

Wang Zhiyuan immediately became excited when he found out that this thing could be used to make single crystal blades for aircraft engines and marine internal combustion engines.

Although he had never come into contact with this kind of advanced material before, Wang Zhiyuan has been designing accessories for cars and motorcycles for a long time, so he knows the local market demand in Vancouver better than anyone else.

So Wang Zhiyuan took a closer approach and started from the supplier's perspective, designing a special material clamping robot for the upstream forging factory of Wenzhou Auto Parts.

Because in Wang Zhiyuan's impression, the probability of safety accidents occurring in local forging plants in Vancouver was very high in the past.

Due to inadequate safety awareness, front-line workers are often caught in the wheels of lathes, forging presses and punch machines because of their work gloves. The end result is a bloody mess, with either several broken fingers or wrist amputation.

After all, the forging plants in the Vancouver area are very large. If you include those small workshops hidden in the villages, there are at least 7,000 or 8,000 of them.

(The working scene of the forging factory is shown in the picture. Safety helmets are basically not seen in small rural workshops, which is very dangerous.)
If we can come up with a targeted 'gripper', as long as the product is durable and reliable, can withstand high-temperature heating and red-hot forgings, and the price for long-term use does not exceed the labor cost, then it will definitely sell well!
So after Wang Zhiyuan brought out this application design that he had been conceiving for a long time and spent more than an hour on composition, modeling, and data uploading.

Soon a message popped up on the screen: "Congratulations on passing our exam! Based on your comprehensive assessment results, the current position salary is tentatively set as a P3 design position with a base salary of 3."

"Friendly reminder: The probation period for new employees is 60 working days, and salary and benefits will be paid during the probation period."

"Please pay attention to the subsequent exam results notification. Those with excellent results will have their job remuneration adjusted according to their P level."

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