When Huawei first started, everyone knew it, but how miserable it was was that everyone didn't expect.
Ren Zhengfei left a Huawei business card on the Internet in his early years, with Huawei's address written on it:Nanshan, Shenzhen, 8th-9th floor
We can also find the building on the web - a dilapidated residential building. But in reality, the building has only eight floors, not even nine floors, let alone an elevator.
Zhu Shiyao, Huawei's former deputy party secretary, spoke about the building.
Someone heard that Huawei had applied for a job, and it took a lot of effort to find out the location of the building, but when he went downstairs, he found that the building was only eight floors, and he began to wonder if this was a fraudulent company.
But it's all come to this point, and after tossing for so long, he's a little tired, so he just goes over to take a look. When he reached the 8th floor, he found that the door to the rooftop was unlockedSo he went up to the rooftop again, only to see that a plastic shed had been erected on the rooftop, and there were a few big words written on it: Huawei Technology Co., Ltd. ***
At Huawei, for many years, job seekers were unable to find their company's office building.
Huawei eventually moved into the Shenyi Industrial Building in the early 90s of the 20th century, which is adjacent to a 30-story building that is the office building of the joint venture Yilida.
Xiong Lening, now the general manager of Huawei's ** chain department, joined Huawei in the same year, butYes, I went to Huawei for an interview, but I encountered some twists and turns, which made Xiong Lening very difficult。Not only was it "resold" by the minibus several times on the way, but when I finally arrived at the destination, I mistakenly thought that this majestic building was Huawei, and I ran to inquire only to find out that their name was Yilida. Then, he went around a few more circles and finally came to the high-rise building where Huawei's headquarters are located.
Naturally, there is an elevator in the Huawei building, and as soon as the door is opened, the air conditioning comes to his face, Xiong Lening ran around sweating profusely, feeling a burst of coolness, and the "cool" in his heart is ah, just work here (Huawei).
This is how Xiong Lening entered Huawei, he has been working hard at Huawei, and now he is the head of Huawei's ** chain management department.
Also in the Shenyi Industrial Building, Zhang Jianguo, the director of the human resources department at the time, was worried that he could not find a suitable employee, and when he saw the towering building of Yilida, he complained to his boss: ".How could Hua have such a tall building?When the time comes, we at Huawei will have whatever we want
Ren Zhengfei said to Zhang Jianguo: ".Within 10 years, Huawei will have taller and more spacious office buildings
Sure enough, within 10 years, Huawei moved to the Nanshan Science and Technology Park, and a few years later, its headquarters were located in Bantian.
In 2001, Ren Zhengfei led a delegation to Japan, and the group dined at a garden-style restaurant of the Japan Electric Company, and everyone was amazed by the grandeur of this restaurant. Ren Zhengfei is the same, after the meal, he looked around the cafeteria and said to himself: "Huawei should have it too." ”
Two years later, Huawei also built an elegant VIP restaurant in Bantian.
Huawei was born in a three-bedroom residential building in Shekou, he made his first pot of gold by selling small exchanges, and moved into the park in 1993, which is the "Hongyi Industrial Building" that Xiong Lening searched for and finally discovered.
After that, ** and Zheng Bao led Huawei, began their own technical research, and put all their energy into their own switch products, and finally with their own "C&C082000" series of digital program-controlled switches hot sales, Huawei has established its position in the domestic communications field. In 1996, Huawei's total sales reached 26 billion yuan, when Huawei's headquarters had moved from the Shenyi Industrial Building in Shenzhen to the Nanshan Science and Technology Park(In 1995, other functional units have been relocated here.)
Huawei began building its own factory in 1998, which later became known as Sakata. Huawei's manufacturing center in Bantian was opened in 1999, and in 2002, Huawei's various branches were also moved to Bantian.
In 2017, Huawei invested 10 billion US dollars in Dongguan to build a 1,900-acre Songshan Lake Park, which is similar to the European-style Songshan Lake Park.
As the founder of Huawei, Ren Zhengfei also devoted all his efforts and overcame obstacles in the early days of entrepreneurship to make Huawei stand firm and grow.
Huawei has built a three-room apartment in a residential building, while Ren Zhengfei himself, along with his siblings, has rented an old house of about 30 square meters.
In such a difficult situation, Ren Zhengfei even did not hesitate to give employees a room, just to retain excellent technicians, Ren Zhengfei's younger brother complained to his mother after returning home: "GreatBrother is so high-tech, he doesn't even have a room of his own!
Moreover, from Huawei's founding in 1987 to 1997, in the past ten years, although Huawei's annual sales reached billions, Ren Zhengfei still did not have a car, but walked alone on the highway for more than half an hour to get off work.
After that, Huawei moved again, because it was far away from home, Ren Zhengfei finally chose a second-hand car (it took several years to change to BMW), but he still drove it himself, without a special driver.
As the CEO of a company, Ren Zhengfei's office in Huawei is completely different from what we imagined, the oval office is not a few hundred square meters, not a bedroom, not a dining room, not a bookshelf, and not a classic book.
In Wu Chunbo's memory, Ren Zhengfei's office has always been very small, very simple, and messy, but what he remembers deeply is that in the corner of Ren Zhengfei's office, there is also a cushion that allows him to take a nap.
The unremitting efforts of Ren Zhengfei and Huawei people have created Huawei's brilliance today.
Huawei's senior management once proposed to Ren Zhengfei".Increase shareholding by 10%-15%.(Ren Zhengfei distributed more than 99% of the equity to employees, while he himself only had less than 1%), which was categorically rejected by Ren Zhengfei:"Do you think if you can do it, someone else can do it?If I had to think about myself, I would definitely be in favor of the shareholders taking more, because I am the largest shareholder;However, you are not stupid, do you still have to pull the carriage?
If I don't want money, if I don't want money, then the whole world belongs to us. If I wanted more money, the whole world would shrink to mehouse," Ren Zhengfei said.
The greatest egoism is selflessness, which is Ren Zhengfei's most famous sentence.
This fully reflects Huawei's "people-oriented, persevering" spirit of strivers and respect for the humanistic spirit.