Chapter 176 First Day on the Job (4000 words)

Liu Wenxiao felt a little regretful the next day after signing the labor contract.

Why did I end up rejecting ByteDance's offer and instead join such an unknown small company?

The company had just been established for less than two months, and apart from the part-time student who looked tall and strong and asked some fairly competent questions during his interview, the few other employees in the company did not seem to have very good technical skills.

Moreover, the salary offered by this small company is only half of Byte's, which means I can only get 25,000 yuan per month. Am I possessed by the devil?

Beauty can mislead people!

However, the girl named Chen Shuyao is really beautiful, and she looks good when she smiles.

Damn it, it was this smile that made me sign the labor contract without thinking!

Liu Wenxiao is an undergraduate from Haipu Jiaotong University and a graduate student from Chengzhou University. He has strong capabilities in algorithms and deep learning. Although he has not published many papers, his contributions on GitHub are not low. He is very motivated to maintain various projects and he also has a project with more than 300 stars.

ByteDance has been recruiting talents in algorithms and deep learning recently.

In addition to poaching people from Qianxun, they also recruit talents in deep learning from around the world, offering annual salaries of up to one million yuan.

Limited to those under 35 years old.

Liu Wenxiao's level is not low. After several rounds of interviews, he successfully got an offer from ByteDance. He originally wanted to join the company, but he didn't expect that he would be obsessed and join such a small company.

Liu Wenxiao decided to go for just one day and then find an excuse to resign.

Fortunately, ByteDance’s offer has not expired yet, so it’s not too late to regret.

"What a shabby office building. I guess they rent it from the National University."

Liu Wenxiao rode a Mobike and stopped at the entrance of Youzi Technology. He looked at the gray two-story building in front of him and muttered something.

"Yu Kai, readjust the parameters of the fully connected layer. We are currently running a dynamic graph, and the data noise is too strong."

"Wang Jiawei, is the compilation complete? Is it OK? Okay, then let's run it again."

A man in his thirties gave an order to the two young men on his left and right, then glanced at Liu Wenxiao who had just entered the room and turned his gaze back to the computer screen.

As soon as Liu Wenxiao entered the door, he was stunned.

Huh? Why are there so many more people? Last week when I came for an interview, there were only four or five part-time students here. Today, it seems like the 200-square-meter open office area on the first floor is almost half full.

That man just now looked very familiar. Where have you seen him before?

"Brother Wenxiao, you're here?" A short-haired girl appeared in front of Liu Wenxiao, with a friendly and enthusiastic smile on her face. "Come, I'll take you through the onboarding process first."

"No, Xiaoou... I don't..." Liu Wenxiao was about to refuse, but when he saw the smiling face of the short-haired girl, he was too embarrassed to say it out loud. After just a moment of hesitation, he was dragged into the office next door by Ma Xiaoou.

"Sister Shuyao, Brother Wenxiao is here." Ma Xiaoou called out happily to Shuyao.

Chen Shuyao was communicating with another young woman in her twenties. When she saw Liu Wenxiao come in, she smiled apologetically and motioned him to wait a moment.

"Dr. Lu Si?" Liu Wenxiao carefully observed the young woman for several seconds before exclaiming in surprise, "Why are you here?"

Lu Si turned his head and looked at Liu Wenxiao in confusion.

Liu Wenxiao rubbed his hands nervously, looking at Lu Si, who was standing in front of him with long hair and light makeup. "I also went to the lecture you gave at the Ziguang Exchange Center last month. It was really wonderful. Oh, by the way, my name is Liu Wenxiao, Cheng Zhou's graduate student."

Lu Si holds an undergraduate degree in computer science from Zhida University and a PhD from Stanford University. During this period, he published more than ten SCI papers, many of which were in the first zone and top journals. He holds more than twenty international patents and has won the Siebel Scholar Award and the Sloan Research Award. He has gained considerable fame in the industry.

Lu Si suddenly realized, smiled at Liu Wenxiao, waved to Shen Shuyao, said "Come on" to Liu Wenxiao, and then turned and left.

"Brother Wenxiao, I'm sorry to have kept you waiting." Chen Shuyao brought a plastic stool to Liu Wenxiao. "The conditions are simple for now. Please sit here first, take a look at these forms, and sign them."

"Manager Shen, why is Dr. Lu Si here?" Liu Wenxiao sat on the plastic stool as he was told and scratched his head in confusion.

While busy looking for something, Chen Shuyao replied nonchalantly: "Brother Wen Xiao, you can call me Xiao Shen or Shu Yao, but don't call me manager. Sister Si Si started working the day before yesterday, so we will all be colleagues from now on."

"Joined the job? Dr. Lu Si joined Youzi Technology?" Liu Wenxiao was stunned.

What's going on?

Didn't I hear a while ago that Lu Si was going to join Ali Research Institute as a senior researcher? How did he end up at Youzi Technology?

A big shot of her level shouldn't be short of offers, right?

Why did you come to such a low-level small company?

Or was it spent money?

Impossible? The salary is less than half of what ByteDance gets.

"Brother Wenxiao?" Chen Shuyao called out to the dazed Liu Wenxiao, "Fill out these two forms first so I can apply for office supplies and permissions for you."

Liu Wenxiao came back to his senses, suppressed his doubts, and took the form from Shen Shuyao's hand.

A top-of-the-line MacBook Pro and a dual-core Xeon Titan X desktop computer, these two items alone would cost no less than 50,000, right?

Not to mention accessories like Cherry's mechanical keyboard and Razer's Cobra mouse, are there any other optional hardware below?

This company is interesting.

Take another look at the software request form.

hiss~

What a waste, isn't it?

Pycharm Professional Edition costs 199 yuan per year for a single user, Matlab costs 2150 yuan, GitHub Enterprise Edition costs 21 yuan per user... These are just the required options. There are also optional software, etc., and you can also choose paid libraries?

"Are these all genuine?" Liu Wenxiao asked with a trembling voice.

While it's true that large companies use legitimate software, they don't grant every employee access, do they? Opening an additional employee account is a cost, and limiting the number of users for paid software is commonplace. Isn't it necessary for everyone to apply? For a small company like this, wouldn't a single account be enough?

"Of course." Chen Shuyao casually tucked her hair. "All of Yuzi Technology's software is genuine or self-developed. Not every employee has these accounts. It depends on the needs. Technical positions have them, but service positions like us don't need to apply."

How much the hell does this cost?

The company spent nearly 100,000 yuan on an employee’s first day at work?

If you have this money, why don’t you just give it to me?

And, service post?

What is a service position? Aren't you a human resources manager? Aren't you a management position?

"Fang Yu said that we don't have so-called management positions, only service positions. We all serve our technical partners." Shen Shuyao blinked and smiled brightly, "We are all partners."

Liu Wenxiao took a look at the ID card on Chen Shuyao's chest, and the words "Employee Relations Partner" were indeed written in the position column.

Employee relations partner?

A bit fresh.

No, no, you can’t look at it too much. It’s too rude.

Maybe... I could try working in this company for a few days?

Liu Wenxiao hesitated for a moment, picked up the pen, checked several software he needed to use on the software application form, and then signed his name on both forms.

Chen Shuyao received the application form, clicked on the options on Liu Wenxiao's list in the system, and then clicked OK.

"Brother Wenxiao, I'll give you your work card this afternoon. I'll take you to your workstation first and introduce you to everyone." Chen Shuyao stood up and took Liu Wenxiao to the open office area.

"Would you please sit here for a while?" Chen Shuyao took Liu Wenxiao to the vacant workstation across from the thirty-something man. Just as she was about to introduce him to other colleagues, she suddenly remembered something. "Oh, sorry, Brother Wenxiao, I almost forgot there's one thing I haven't handed over. Wait a minute, please."

Liu Wenxiao saw Chen Shuyao jogging back to the office, and could only look around bored.

"Teacher Hua, CNN is running smoothly but there is a problem with LSTM. We still have plenty of computing power. Can you help me take a look?" A young man wearing glasses scratched his head embarrassedly.

Teacher Hua?

This surname is too rare. A flash of lightning flashed through Liu Wenxiao's mind, and the name in his mind and the face in front of him gradually merged together.

"Hua Zecheng?" Liu Wenxiao couldn't help but scream.

The middle-aged man in his thirties looked up at Liu Wenxiao and said, "Do you know me?"

Nonsense, how many people in China who are engaged in deep learning don’t know you?

Liu Wenxiao's heart was pounding as he stammered, "Teacher Hua, I've watched your open class before, and it was very helpful to me."

If Lu Si is a rising star with the potential to become a leader in the AI ​​field within the next decade, then Hua Zecheng has already gained considerable fame for his technology and is recognized as a technical expert in the industry!

Although Hua Zecheng's fame and qualifications are far inferior to those of academic giants such as Wu Ende of Qianxun and Huang Jian of Ali, such giants are no longer considered by simple technical ability.

But if he were to join these two companies, with his strength, he would definitely have the possibility of becoming the top man of Wu Ende and Huang Jian.

Such a person is actually in Youzi Technology now?

What's going on with this company?

Hua Zecheng just hummed, glanced sideways at the young man's screen next to him, and without thinking, "Isn't the BEITH project that Professor Jorz and President Fang opened on Github to solve this problem? The company has a ready-made solution. You can go check it out."

Professor Jorz? Who? Never heard of him.

GitHub? I checked it out before my interview last week, and there's nothing there for this company. What is the BEITH project?

"Oh, right." Hua Zecheng looked up at Liu Wenxiao. "You know about BP neural networks, right? Run this data through BP and give me the results."

Liu Wenxiao nodded repeatedly, but did not dare to tell Hua Zecheng that his computer had not been distributed yet, and hurriedly took out his computer from his backpack.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, Brother Wen Xiao, I forgot something important."

Shen Shuyao held the three cards with an apologetic look on her face.

"I remember your information said you haven't rented a room yet. This is the company's employee dormitory. There are single rooms, double rooms, and quadruple rooms. The single room is a one-bedroom apartment with a living room, a bathroom, and a living room. The double room is a three-bedroom apartment with a small study, but the living room is a bit small. The quadruple room is a four-bedroom apartment with a floor area of ​​140 square meters. Needless to say, the disadvantages are obvious, but the advantage is that it is quite lively. Which one would you choose?"

"The dormitory is not far from here. It's in Yushuilanwan. Although it's a residential complex built ten years ago, the environment is pretty good. It takes fifteen minutes to get there by Mobike, and about the same time by taxi."

"If you don't want to live in the company-provided dormitory, the monthly rental subsidy is 2,500 yuan. You can choose either one."

This company still manages it?

Liu Wenxiao was becoming increasingly confused.

When he went to ByteDance for an interview, the HR told him in a very high-profile manner that ByteDance could provide a monthly subsidy of 1,500 yuan, which he thought was not bad at the time.

But that's in Xinhao! Sharing a bedroom costs 4,000 yuan on the West Third Ring Road!

Comparing it this way, it seems that although the salary at Youzi Technology is a bit low, it is still quite humane.

The cost of living in Haixi is also much lower than that in Xinhao. Thinking about it this way, a lower salary does not seem unacceptable.

Besides, here is Lu Si! Here is Hua Zecheng!

If a big shot like Hua Zecheng were to take the initiative to join a company like ByteDance, he would have to be ranked at least 3-2, which is equivalent to Ali's P9 or above.

But if ByteDance actually gave Hua Zecheng a 3-2 level, Hua Zecheng would not go at all.

Isn't this humiliating?

Without the 4-1 treatment of company leadership, it would be impossible to hire a technical expert like Hua Zecheng.

As for myself, it's already good enough to barely get a 1-2, which is equivalent to Ahri's p6, but the salary may be higher than the average p6, and this is also due to the popularity of algorithms in the past two years.

Between 1-2 and 4-1, there are four levels: 2-1, 2-2, 3-1, and 3-2. Every time you cross a level, there are piles of bones below.

There may be tens of thousands of people between you and you may not even have the chance to meet each other even if you are in the same company.

But here, I can actually work with a great guy like Hua Zecheng, it’s like a dream.

Even if this company is unreliable and I leave one day, it will not become an obstacle to interviewing for a new job by citing my experience of working with Hua Zecheng and Lu Si.

Moreover, with these great people around, Yuzu Technology might really be able to produce something.

I’ve decided to work in this company for a while and see what happens.

Liu Wenxiao clenched his fists and just made up his mind when he saw a tall and strong young man who seemed to be full of explosive power coming down from the second floor. Behind him was a black-haired girl with fair skin, bright eyes and white teeth.

Eh? Isn't that the guy who interviewed me?

The girls in this company are so pretty. The girl behind this boy is really pretty, no less pretty than Chen Shuyao, and she seems to be very young. She is probably a national student working part-time here, right?

Liu Wenxiao was sighing when he saw Hua Zecheng, who had been calm and confident just now, suddenly stood up.

"Mr. Fang! There are a few issues in the 0.1 version of the Youzu architecture that I haven't figured out. The first one..." When Hua Zecheng saw Fang Yu coming down, he stopped Fang Yu, pulled out his notes, and started talking incessantly.

Liu Wenxiao was stunned. Mr. Fang? Could this guy who was interviewing him be the boss?

This must be a lie, right?

And you are Hua Zecheng. Even if he is the boss, you don’t have to be so flattering, right?

You even asked the boss for advice?

Where is your self-esteem?

What is the yuzu architecture?

This is the only update I will give today. I stayed up late writing until 3 o'clock yesterday, and I have been feeling uncomfortable all day. I feel so uncomfortable.

I will make up for the 2,000 words I owe today tomorrow.

(End of this chapter)