After the layoffs, I became a tech godfather

Chapter 19 Initial Team Members
"This is the situation. What choice do you two make?"

In the afternoon, He Gang hurried back to Pengcheng, while Hao Cheng directly invited Cao Song and Li Ling to come over.

After transferring the previously agreed remuneration to them, Hao Cheng explained the situation and then directly extended the invitation: "How do you two choose? Will you come or not?"

"Come, of course!" Both of them nodded hurriedly, as if the opportunity would be snatched away by someone else if they were a minute late. They didn't even discuss the salary and benefits first.

Nonsense, they both saw how powerful the quicksand between fingers was. It had been several days, and the shock hadn’t worn off yet.

Now that there is an opportunity to join such a startup, no one would choose to miss it. At this moment, they just feel that God has blessed them and that the three incense sticks they burned in the temple two days ago were not in vain.

"Xiaosha, Xiaosha, based on the actual situation of our company, please draft two labor contracts and related confidentiality agreements and other documents."

While explaining Xiaosha, Hao Cheng said to Cao Song and Li Ling: "The salary standard will be 1.2 times of your previous salary in the company, and social security and provident fund will be paid according to the actual salary standard. It will be adjusted later based on the company's development."

The company where several of them worked originally had a low salary standard, and the social security and housing provident fund were both at the minimum standard. Now that they were with Hao Cheng, they didn't have to be unique, but reaching the normal standard should be the bottom line.

After hearing what Hao Cheng said, both of them were delighted. They originally thought that startup companies would have to "struggle hard" for a while. They had seen some startup companies recruiting before, and some of them clearly stated on the recruitment APP that they would not pay wages, so please do not disturb them if you mind.

"Brother Cheng, we can actually accept a lower salary in the early stage. After all, starting a business is not easy and you need money everywhere."

Seeing that this computing power center is not cheap, Cao Song said, thinking of the strong interface capability. At that time, he also talked about third-party interface. How could a third party have such a powerful thing?
This capability is far inferior to OpenAI's unreleased 5.0, right? I have heard that GPT5.0 is not as good as expected, saying that the training has reached a bottleneck and it is difficult to improve it.

Cao Song suddenly woke up from his dream: Could it be that Brother Cheng made this thing himself? As soon as this thought came out, his eyes involuntarily stared at Hao Cheng.

"It's just as you think." There was nothing to hide at this time: "Moreover, I have reached a strategic cooperation with Huawei. The first task is to assist Huawei in integrating the capabilities of Fingertip Quicksand into the system-level Xiaoyi.

"As for the initial funding, there is no need to worry. Huawei is very generous."

Hao Cheng did not elaborate on the specific details, but if each device costs 200 yuan, there will be 20 to 30 million Mate and Pura series terminals each year, and this item alone will cost 50 to 60 billion yuan.

Excluding hardware costs such as server network bandwidth, there will be 20 to 30 billion left.

Compared with these incomes, how much can staff salaries and benefits cost, no matter how high they are?

"Huawei?" The two of them were even more delighted. Brother Cheng had just started his business and he had found such a strong support. He didn't have to worry about his future at all!
Moreover, it was Huawei that used their solution. What does this mean? Xiaosha is more capable than Xiaoyi!

"Yes!" Hao Cheng nodded and confirmed, "We will officially start work tomorrow. The workplace is here, not too far from our original company. You all live nearby, right?"

"Yes. That's right." The two of them answered hurriedly, one after the other.

"That's good." Hao Cheng continued, "Now, the official version of Fingertip Quicksand has been launched on the AG application market of HarmonyOS Next.

"At this stage, our most important task is version maintenance and iteration. In particular, there may be many problems after the number of users increases. Let's stop the Android version for now and make a decision later."

Although he did not agree to He Gang's exclusive request, Hao Cheng still wanted to return a favor. Based on the current computing power center where he is, Hao Cheng also had to express his gratitude appropriately.

Moreover, this computing center can only meet the needs of 200 million registered users, which may be the amount of the Mate70 series in the initial launch period.

Even if a slight delay in requests is acceptable, expanding the number of users to 400 million will not last long.

We must start building a computing center right now, or we will have to rent one. Hao Cheng suspected that He Gang's urgency this morning was a conspiracy - even if Hao Cheng wanted to launch Android and IOS versions now, he was powerless.

As long as the construction of computing power centers cannot keep up with the growth of Mate series users, HarmonyOS has in fact achieved its monopoly goal.

Shaking his head, Hao Cheng stopped dwelling on this and continued:
“In addition, we need to integrate our AI capabilities into the system-level Xiaoyi. Although there are not many functional modules, the time is very tight. The expected release time is the end of November, and we only have less than a month at most.

"But don't worry too much. I have written all the functional interfaces, and they are all ready-made. We just need to cooperate with the engineers at Huawei Terminal for joint debugging.

"There is just one problem. Their people are working a lot of overtime, so they will probably come to us in the middle of the night. Don't worry, I will help you two get overtime pay for them."

"Yeah." The two of them nodded in unison. Of course they knew that Hao Cheng was joking. He was just telling them that he would give them overtime pay. They liked this kind of company.

"There is another project,"

Although He Gang said he would do his best when he handed the item to him, Hao Cheng himself thought that such a meritorious thing must be taken seriously.

Moreover, Hao Cheng was eager to try out the mysterious things he learned from the study card yesterday.

He briefly introduced the multi-spectral channels behind the Super Color Accurate Red Maple Camera and the idea of using it for food safety monitoring, and then said: "There are a number of models and data that need to be sorted and screened, and then..."

Hearing that there was another project, Cao Song was almost stunned. He pointed at himself, then at Li Ling, and asked directly, "Are we the only ones doing this?"

"How can that be possible!" Hao Cheng smiled and said, "So, there is something more important than what I just said, recruit people quickly.

"Zhang Ning from our team who was fired by our previous company, and Han Zijie from the data center are both very capable. Cao Song should know them, right? Go back and contact them to see if they are still looking for a job."

"Yes, I have." Cao Song nodded: "I will contact him when I get back today."

"Also, if you two think you have suitable candidates, you can recommend them to me directly. Technical personnel, especially those related to the computing center, will receive rewards for successful referrals!"

……

"How do you feel?" At three o'clock in the afternoon, when the two walked out of the Entrepreneurship and Innovation Center where the computing power center was located, Li Ling asked Cao Song.

"We are lucky," Cao Song said with emotion, "Not only us, but everyone who was able to enter our company in the first batch can be said to have lucked out!
"If you don't believe me, wait half a year and you'll see. Without a master's degree from a 985 university or a traditional strong school of electronic science and technology, you won't even be able to get into our company!"

"So exaggerated?" Although Li Ling also felt that the company definitely had prospects, after all, the product strength was there, but she did not think of this level.

"Just wait and see!" Cao Song waved his hand and went to contact Han Zijie, thinking silently in his heart: Brother Cheng said he is strong, so let's get him over, no matter if he has a job now or not.

Cao Song himself does not have a high level of education, he is just an ordinary undergraduate. Since he knows the prospects of this company, he must work hard to improve himself.

Otherwise, even if you are a veteran who joined the company when it was first founded, you will fall behind if you don’t work hard. At that time, you can’t blame anyone.

Han Zijie, who graduated from a prestigious university, tried to persuade her to contact his school teachers so that they could study for an on-the-job master's degree together.

(End of this chapter)