Give up the offer with a monthly salary of 35,000, but choose an offer of 20,005, why don't you regret it?
After graduating from her undergraduate degree, Xiaohong has been engaged in UI work. She has 8 years of work experience, and has led a team and done large projects. From her resume, she is very good.
This year, because the company where I work is not very smooth, there is no hope of promotion and salary increase, and internal management has also begun to be difficult. Therefore, she wants to change jobs: on the one hand, she hopes to go to a larger platform; on the other hand, with the growth of age and experience, she hopes to have some breakthroughs in the position or work content.
Give up the offer with a monthly salary of 35,000, but choose an offer of 20,005, why don't you regret it?
Because sister Haoyou often said, "If you know why you quit your job and have a clear goal, your job search is often smoother." Therefore, after less than two months of job hunting, Xiaohong finally got two fairly satisfactory offers:
The first one: a subsidiary of a state-owned enterprise, UI+UE engineer position, monthly salary of 25K.
The second one: It is an Internet start-up company, doing artificial intelligence, has received B round of financing, the position is UI engineer, the monthly salary is 35K.
If you were Xiaohong, which one would you choose? radio
A, choose state-owned enterprises, stable.
B. Choose a start-up company and have more money.
C. Choose neither, see you in the comment area.
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Judging from the interview process and job content, both offers are good. Of course, this is due to Xiaohong's steadfast cultivation of a field after graduation, forming her own core competitiveness.
But after all, you have to choose one of the two offers. After some struggles, Xiaohong finally chose "the first subsidiary of a state-owned enterprise with a monthly salary of 25,000".
Give up the offer with a monthly salary of 35,000, but choose an offer of 20,005, why don't you regret it?
Is Xiaohong's choice the same as yours? Do you think that Xiaohong has no adventurous spirit and "covets" stability? Not really.
In other words, an extra 10,000 yuan per month is of course very tempting! Therefore, when coaching Xiaohong, we consulted two management ladies from Microsoft and Baidu to analyze the benefits and risks of Internet startups.
First, the income of Internet startups
Benefit #1: An extra $10,000 a month is obvious and common.
Due to the instability and chaotic division of responsibilities in start-up companies, those startups that have raised funds often offer more than the market average salary to attract talents when recruiting to meet their rapid expansion needs.
In other words, this high salary itself contains a risk fee. So if you join a startup just for the high salary, you are likely to plant a landmine for yourself.
However, the benefits of startups are not only good current salary, but the following points are also very important.
Benefit 2: Experience the process of things from 0 to 1.
Many people have the values of longing for a sense of accomplishment. When they see something from 0 to 1, they feel happy and accomplished. Then, it is easier to satisfy the "sense of accomplishment" by joining a startup company than in a company that is mature in all aspects.
The third benefit is to get more management and coordination training opportunities, and become an all-rounder.
In a startup company, there are not enough people and the business changes a lot. If you want to make a difference, you must not only actively participate in the work of other departments, but also push others to cooperate with you, and you must be able to coordinate plans. These capabilities are adaptability outside of professional skills. Do you care about these abilities, do you desire to have them? For example, when Xiaohong was interviewing at a startup company in Yizhuang, the boss made it clear: Since you have 8 years of work experience, I also expect you to be able to take on more responsibilities, including tasks such as product, team leadership, and testing. Get involved.
Fourth, if the company goes public, it will be able to upgrade its wealth.
Successful Internet startups always bring the myth of wealth. In traditional industries, it usually takes 20-30 years to go public or have scale. In the Internet field, 5-10 years to achieve listing and expansion, seems to be very common. Therefore, there are indeed many people who have worked hard for a few years with their bosses, and then they have reached the pinnacle of their lives. For example, three years ago, there was a story about an intern of Jumei Youpin, but the boss could not keep it sincere at that time, but 5 years later Jumei Youpin went public, and the intern lost several million. Of course, after Jumei Youpin went public, it did not perform well, which is another story.
Give up the offer with a monthly salary of 35,000, but choose an offer of 20,005, why don't you regret it?
Second, the risk of Internet startups.
Risk one, high income may not last long.
When I came here this year, I have coached in a startup company, and encountered various salary deductions and reduced treatment in the company. For example, most startups sign a 6-month probationary period. For some positions, startups will continue to use probationary employees. After 6 months, they will say that you are not suitable and let you leave, and then recruit the next one. You are embarrassed to do this for 6 months, and the salary during the probationary period may only be 70% of the contract. For another example, I coached a college girl to operate a startup company. In good times, it was 10,000 yuan per month, but this year there was a problem with the flow of funds. The boss said that only the basic salary was paid, and it became 4,000 yuan per month. Last year, he took a taxi Tickets have not yet been reimbursed. Therefore, I also suggest that everyone stay calm. The recruitment website is full of dozens of K salaries. There is water in it, and you may not be able to get it.
Risk 2: There are many changes in work, and it will be more painful for those who like to have plans, implementations, and results in everything.
I have mentored many friends in start-up companies, working part-time in start-up companies, and I feel that the boss changes from time to time. In fact, it's not that the boss is out of breath, but the startup itself is constantly debugging around the market and capital. Therefore, it is possible that the product that the team has worked hard for several months will have to be remade if the capital does not pay for it or the market does not respond. Coupled with the large flow of personnel, it is difficult for your work to have a stable sense of order and repetition to make you skilled, and there will be a feeling of chaos everywhere.
Risk three, startups are more about employing people, and there is no way to train people systematically. Whether they grow or not depends on their own good fortune.
Maybe on TV, young people with entrepreneurial teams have transformed with their careers and gained insight, ability and even tolerance. But in reality, the current start-up companies on the streets are usually not concerned with training people systematically, but whether they can do it or not, let me first and plug this hole. Then the employees here are likely to be sent to a post to block holes without systematic experience in all aspects of exercise. The ability is not solid, and it is not easy to succeed in doing things.
From the risk analysis to this point, I have also seen young people in the Zhongguancun area in the past two years, who are constantly working in various startups. When I joined a startup company, I bet on the other side's options and whether the other side can go public. As a result, I have seriously damaged my career in the past few years, and I am anxious and have no accumulation. Therefore, it is emphasized again that "it is not advisable to go to a startup company purely for high income."
Give up the offer with a monthly salary of 35,000, but choose an offer of 20,005, why don't you regret it?
So, Internet startups have risks and benefits. Why does Xiaohong choose a subsidiary of a state-owned enterprise?
After understanding the possible risks and benefits, you can make choices based on self-knowledge.
Going back to Xiaohong at the beginning of the story, although she has led the team, the two years she has been with the team are actually her most painful two years. She hopes to become a technical expert in the UI and UE fields, not a manager; She hopes to have her own spare time to develop hobbies, so it is a very rational decision to choose 25K's state-owned enterprise subsidiary.
In the end, this is actually a matter of choosing a large company vs a startup company. When making a specific choice, I have the following suggestions
- Depending on how much you know about the company:
If you are very optimistic about the business of this startup, and even know the core team of the startup very well and have confidence in them, then you might as well give it a try; if you don’t know this startup very well, obviously big companies will be more Be safe.
- Look at your future career plan:
If you want to take the technical expert route, it is recommended to go to a large factory. If you want to lead a team, go to a startup company. The division of responsibilities in a startup company is messy, and only people who can push things on their own will be more painful in a startup company if you don’t like it, are not good at it, and don’t want to learn it.
- Look at your career development status:
If you want to steadily improve and grow professionally, go to a big factory; if you want high-risk, high-reward, work hard for a year or two to be on your own and become a management team, go to a start-up company.
Moreover, if the development under the system of a large company has encountered a bottleneck (for example, there is no room for promotion, or your position is easy to be replaced), then the startup company has more opportunities to exercise, and you can also consider a startup company.
There is never a perfect job, only the right job, no matter what your choice is, you need to know why you chose it.