After working in a traditional enterprise for five years, Mr. Liu, who has a background of studying in Tongji University, decided to change his working environment. However, while he made a choice in job-hopping, he also made difficulties.
After the interview, Mr Liu got two job opportunities. The first is a big company with good stability and welfare, and the second is a startup company, but the work pressure is relatively high, but the salary is relatively high.
You can't have your cake and eat it. Mr. Liu was lost in thought and made a difficult choice.
Mr. Liu's case is not a case. Candidates with similar foreign software backgrounds such as Microsoft, Intel and EMC are prone to this dilemma. Most of them have a prestigious school background, and enjoy generous salaries, generous benefits and the aura of prestigious enterprises after joining the company. However, when they choose to change jobs, they often encounter such a dilemma.
Not only employees of foreign-funded enterprises will face such confusion when they change jobs, but even employees from BAT who have a fast pace of work are often entangled in the choice of staying in BAT or going to a startup company. However, more and more BAT employees began to choose job-hopping, giving up the aura of famous enterprises and seeking development in startups.
1 exodus of large enterprises
The difference between a big company and a startup company
"Big companies" usually have several things in common:
1. Stable business, abundant cash and rich product lines;
2. The team has a large scale and distinct levels;
Most of them have serious "big company disease".
Employees who have entered large enterprises basically know the harm of "big company disease": clear hierarchy, cumbersome process, rigid system, low work efficiency and difficulty in cross-departmental cooperation.
As for startups, the scale is small, usually below the B round of financing. The total number of companies is less than 100, or even only 20. The product line is small, with user growth as the core goal, more flexible working hours and efficiency-oriented. The biggest challenge for startups at this stage is to meet the unknown changes at any time, and they must always be ready to meet the changes.
The biggest difference between a startup company and a large company is that large companies should give priority to the opinions and bottom line of shareholders and management, which will lead to the decision-making of large companies becoming more conservative and even losing their long-term vision and pursuing short-term KPI goals.
However, the level of startups will not deduct too many details and there is no bureaucratic atmosphere. With high efficiency, there are more possibilities for maneuver, and the plan can be executed quickly, and the user experience and user growth are regarded as the most important things at this stage.
More and more employees fled from big companies to start-ups Why is this happening? Let's take a look at the typical symptoms of big companies—
1. hierarchy. Traditional enterprises attach great importance to hierarchy, and many managers like to put on the halo hat of "I am the boss" and cannot extricate themselves. This strict hierarchical system makes the already complicated workflow more complicated, and the hierarchical conflicts and intrigues in the office make the work stagnate.
2. The workflow is cumbersome. Mr. Bai recalled that he had just joined a real estate industry, which was a typical symptom of a big company. An invoice must be approved by six people at the same level and then submitted to the superior. In case of emergency, it is often delayed for several hours in the first-level review of emails.
3. The work efficiency is low. Compared with the Internet, traditional enterprises have slow pace and low efficiency. After working in a traditional enterprise for three years, Ms. Li chose to change jobs. She said, "Traditional enterprises are not the place where young people should stay. The pressure often comes not from the work content, but from the complicated interpersonal relationship in the office, which is too inefficient. After a long time, people become lazy. "
Although the welfare benefits of traditional companies are good, personal development will be greatly restricted and many innovative ideas of individuals will be buried. Therefore, people with high requirements for self-development and clear goals will pursue innovation and passion, jump out of the original comfort zone, and go to start-up companies to enhance their core competitiveness and develop themselves.
Traditional enterprises are like this. So, what are the symptoms of large Internet companies such as BAT letting employees flee to startups?
1 working pressure. Bats are too tall. According to Sleep Ace's First Survey Report on the Sleep Status of Internet Employees in China in 2065438+06, the average sleep duration of employees in Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent enterprises is 6.5 hours, which is lower than the standard recommendation of 7-8 hours for adults. The proportion of people with high work pressure is 47.9%, leading the industry, and BAT is at greater risk of sleep health problems. On the other hand, the average overtime days of employees in Internet companies are 1.6 days, while the average overtime days of BAT are at most 1.9 days, and 70% of employees work overtime after 9 pm. In terms of work pressure, 47.9% of BAT employees think that work pressure is high, which is higher than the average level of 38% in other industries.
2. The division of labor is too thin. Every project needs many teams to complete, and everything needs careful division of labor, but this often leads to inefficiency. Moreover, the meticulous division of labor makes the work content of employees more boring and monotonous, which reduces the core competitiveness and passion of employees.
The competition is fierce. In BAT, it is difficult to get promoted unless you are a big cow. For grass-roots employees, it doesn't mean that you can get promoted if you stay for a long time and work hard. There are many BAT talents, so it is difficult to get promoted.
Large Internet companies such as BAT are often fast-paced, with high work pressure and high work intensity. For newcomers, their ability will be greatly improved in the short term, but they will still face the above three situations, which makes employees feel confused and dissatisfied.
In fact, working in a startup company is not easy. Traditional enterprises are often unable to adapt to job-hopping, and large Internet companies such as BAT will also find that their work is not as easy as expected. After leaving the original environment, they gradually face the following problems in the startup company-
1. Heavy work and excessive pressure. Start-ups will face huge competitive pressure in the industry, and even encounter the tragic situation of financing difficulties. In the cruel situation of capital reshuffle, start-ups will face the risk of being eliminated as soon as they relax. This kind of pressure will be invisible to employees, and because the company is short of manpower, it is normal for a person to do the work of several people.
2. The confusion caused by weak process management. Although weak processes will bring convenience to efficient office work, they will also lead to confusion. One afternoon, Wen Wen, a designer working in a start-up company, received three design requirements, all of which required delivery on the same day. She expressed confusion: Isn't there a design requirements process? And the company's management system will be slightly inadequate. Many times, due to flat management, every employee can directly connect with the management, so that the management really can't take into account the feelings of every employee.
There are too few resources, so you have to rely on yourself. In BAT, there are many resources, and the work content is rarely done alone. The whole team works together to complete the work content. In a startup company, resources are greatly reduced and the right to speak in the industry is weak. Talking about cooperation often faces the dilemma of indifference. And many things can only be done by yourself, and you need to master a variety of skills, even as small as every typo and as big as the strategic direction, you must solve it yourself.
Even if the difficulties caused by the above objective factors can be overcome, many candidates from famous enterprises such as BAT are more easily troubled by subjective factors during job-hopping and interview, mainly in the following three points-
1. You can't leave the burden of famous enterprises behind. Many people think that being born in a famous enterprise will bring them a big salary increase. That was not the case. Although most start-ups that have passed the A and B rounds are still in a state of rapid expansion, the founders choose talents instead of controlling them. They no longer blindly expand enrollment, and rarely offer salaries far higher than the market price to choose grassroots employees. Most of the high-priced employees are real technical cows.
2. The strength does not match the expected salary. For many employees who have worked in famous enterprises for too long, their skills are not outstanding. Founders often feel that their technical level has long been mismatched with that salary. If they want to recruit people, they can only reduce their wages to the asking price. Most people don't want to cut their salaries, which leads to an endless deadlock. They take a pay cut to hone their skills and continue to be screws without a pay cut.
3. I don't like to give the team technical level of high-paying companies, and there is no room for growth. As mentioned above, Mr. Liu still refused the offer in the face of a company that offered a high salary and compared his initial intention of job hopping, and fell into a dilemma between salary and growth.
What should I do if I encounter the above problems?
The last part talks about two problems, one is the problem of start-up companies, and the other is the problem brought by the burden of famous enterprises. This time, I interviewed several candidates who left BAT and came to start-up companies. About why startups attract them, I summarized the following three similarities through interviews.
1. More comprehensive development prospects. The division of functions of large companies is too fine. In a startup company, because the process is not too strict and the division of labor is vague, many aspects of work can be tried, with high efficiency and quick results, thus trial and error.
2. Communicate more closely with the founder. As we all know, the level setting of BAT is very strict, and cross-level communication at work is basically impossible. The management structure of startup companies is relatively flat, and grass-roots employees can communicate with founders relatively frequently.
3. A greater sense of accomplishment. Start-ups have low market share, weak brand effect and few existing users. In their daily work, they can quickly see the impact of everything they do on business and data. Working in a startup company, you can know what you have done and what role you have played, so that you have a greater sense of accomplishment.
To work in a startup, you need to have strong adaptability and adaptability, manage your emotions well, do a good job of self-regulation, and actively see the benefits you can get from coming to a startup. When interviewing from a famous enterprise to a startup company, I encountered problems about salary and ability, and gave the following suggestions-
1. The burden of famous enterprises. The aura of famous enterprises makes many candidates unable to accept salary cuts. But for people with three to five years of work experience, salary is sometimes not the primary consideration. Since you choose to leave the comfort zone, the first thing to do is to change your mentality and let go of your psychological burden.
2. Lack of ability. There are quite a few candidates who are dissatisfied with their salary and even fail in the interview because of their lack of ability. In this case, the first thing to do is to reflect on why you left your original company. It's not a bad thing to accept a pay cut and join the company. Pay attention to the growth that this job can bring. After joining the job, what you have to do is naturally absorb nutrients like a sponge and have the awareness of actively improving your skills.
There is no room for growth for high-paying companies. Naturally, you can choose to use the aura of famous enterprises to enjoy the same treatment in relatively loose companies and even get a high salary increase. However, such a choice deviates from your initial intention of leaving BAT or traditional famous enterprises, and will return to the initial infinite loop again, and your personal core competitiveness will gradually decrease, so you can't find a real way out in the future and face another choice in the cruel competition.
Therefore, it is a good choice to let go of the burden of famous enterprises, stay away from the comfort zone, have a sense of crisis and constantly hone their skills. As for wages, with the improvement of skills and abilities, they will naturally increase.
Employees who leave from large Internet companies such as BAT to work in startups often have a low vision. They don't care much about the immediate salary. For them, it is the most important thing to grow up faster and more comprehensively.
So where to jump ship is not the most important thing, the most important thing is to find out why to jump ship.
What about you? Do you jump from a big company to a startup, or do you use a startup as a springboard to enter a big company?