Chapter 18 Amazing R&D Speed
Chapter 18 Amazing R&D Speed
Xie Jianyong read the talent demand form again and again, and finally put it aside!
He really didn't think that the technical requirements for these positions were that high. According to his estimation, for talents of this level, an annual salary of RMB 100,000 would be enough. If he paid more, the team leaders under him would feel uncomfortable. After all, he made the requirements based on the current technical levels of these team leaders.
But even so, he still can't find a suitable one. Is it because his requirements are too high, or are the talents out there too shabby?
Xie Jianyong naturally didn't know that both he himself and the team leaders and technical backbones under him were all holding the scientific research quotas given by Xu Shenxue.
After the change of month, Xu Shenxue obtained another 100 guaranteed achievement points, and more than 20 business achievement points, which eventually allowed him to exchange for 12 D-level scientific research places.
Adding the previous ten scientific research quotas, Xu Shenxue has a total of twenty-two scientific research quotas for the technical backbones of the R&D department.
After using the scientific research quotas, the learning and work R&D capabilities of these twenty-two people, including Xie Jianyong, have been improved to a higher level than before. Moreover, this change did not come suddenly, but was a subtle change, and they became stronger without realizing it.
Of course, they don’t think they have become any better, but rather attribute it to the fact that the technology behind smartphones doesn’t seem that difficult?
But those technical personnel outside who can reach the same level do not have systematic scientific research quotas. They rely on real talents. People with real talents who can reach this level are not cheap. They are all extremely expensive!
This has led to the current situation. If you want to recruit people who can reach this level of technical skills, sorry... you can't afford it.
Even though President Xu promised him that he had prepared tens of millions of R&D funds to develop smartphones, this money was needed to build an entire team, including hardware, software, and even appearance design, etc., and at least a team of about 200 people would be needed.
If any random person comes here and is offered an annual salary of hundreds of thousands or even millions, then what’s the point!
Thinking of this, Xie Jianyong also looked helpless!
There is no other way now. He can only find a large number of ordinary technicians and then train them slowly. Fortunately, smart phones are not too difficult to make. The smart phone project team under him now has more than ten people, and they can do it quite well.
Without thinking about these things, Xie Jianyong began to concentrate on his work.
The R&D department has been facing a lot of pressure recently. Apart from the smartphone project, it is mainly working on feature phones.
Now, in addition to daily minor modifications and changing of the shell, the main task of their feature phone project is to upgrade and transform the J56, a family heirloom that has been used for more than a year, and strive to come up with the core design plan for the next generation of mobile phones as soon as possible.
The reason why I had this idea is that I don’t know whether it is because there are more new people coming recently, which has stimulated everyone’s work enthusiasm, or because everyone has been working on feature phones too much. The past month has been smooth sailing, and I feel that I have almost mastered the core solution of J56, and it seems that it is time to go a step further.
The research and development is going smoothly. This is not their illusion, but a fact!
Last month, they launched six new mobile phones at once, including three Blue phones and three Wecool phones.
This month, the R&D department has launched six new mobile phones, including the Blue S2, which has received very good feedback on e-commerce platforms. Subsequently, the Blue F1 was upgraded to a flip phone F2.8 with a 2-inch screen, and the price was directly lowered to 799.
Although sales are not very good, the price has gone up, which can be regarded as effectively raising the price ceiling of the brand.
The remaining four are minor modifications for offline platforms, including the Weiku 1, which imitates the Xiaolan S320, to see how this type of mobile phone is accepted in the offline market.
Because the R&D department's research and development speed has been greatly accelerated, although a lot of new staff have been added, it also shocked other people in the company.
This R&D speed once made outsiders wonder whether these colleagues in the R&D department had taken stimulants. How come the R&D speed had become so fast?
Even if this kind of research and development is just a minor facelift with small adjustments in functionality and appearance, the actual workload is still not small.
However, the colleagues in the R&D department seemed to ignore these difficulties and successfully came up with a large number of mobile phone models.
And they are not just for show, but new phones with some changes and innovations. The Bluemoon S1 and S2 are the most typical examples!
The design of its appearance does not look like it was done in a hurry.
Even some offline channel dealers wanted to get the product after accidentally finding out about it.
However, the Bluegogo mobile phone is a brand exclusively for the Internet. In order to maintain its uniqueness and price system, Weiku Electronics cannot wholesale this phone to these offline channel dealers at a low price...but offline channels cannot be easily abandoned.
So Xu Shenxue came up with a compromise solution, which was to slightly modify the Xiaolan S1 and add a similar mobile phone with a main focus on appearance to the Weiku mobile phone brand, namely the Weiku 320.
Well, the price is not cheap. The wholesale price is between three hundred and sixty and three hundred and eighty yuan, which is dozens of yuan more expensive than the previous J56 series old models.
But even so, those channel dealers are also happy to purchase a batch to test the market acceptance. In the past month, the new mobile phones launched by Weiku Electronics have received good responses from downstream terminal stores and have a relatively high market acceptance.
With this successful example, they are also willing to accept the price increase of Weiku Electronics' new mobile phones... After all, they make money from the price difference. If the ex-factory price goes up, their selling price will also go up, so the channel profit will definitely not be reduced.
As long as consumers buy it, any price is fine!
The various slightly innovative mobile phones and new appearance mobile phones of the Weiku brand, as well as the young and fashionable little blue mobile phones specially designed for e-commerce platforms, all of them are inseparable from the efficient research and development of the R&D department!
This speed of development was so amazing that not only people from other departments were amazed, but even people within the R&D department found it strange...
In the past month, Xie Jianyong, the manager of the R&D department, felt as if he had experienced a second spring in his career. Not only was he more focused and quicker in thinking at work, but most importantly, he had a good inspiration every few days.
Especially when designing the Little Blue S1 mobile phone, based on the design requirements of youth and fashion elements proposed by Xu Shenxue, he and his colleagues in the R&D department did not have much confidence at the beginning. They just wanted to modify the old plan.
But as the changes were made, some new things were constantly incorporated. Although they were not very important, the final phone was very excellent in overall design: it was very pleasing to the eye.
Moreover, the internal structure is more reasonable, so that the quality of the mobile phone is better.
Although the core architecture is still the old J56 that the company has used for more than a year, and the components are also the same old ones, the things produced feel different... But if you ask what is different, Xie Jianyong and his team can't really say.
Just feel like, a little better?
When it came time to upgrade Bluegogo 2S, Xie Jianyong also led his team to fine-tune the circuit board design of the j56 that had been used for more than a year. The software team also made some fine-tuning to the built-in system software. This was originally intended to adapt to the new screen and memory, and they felt that the changes were not significant.
But the final result is very good, the phone feels much smoother to use than the original S1...
This is very confusing!
This also boosted the confidence of Xie Jianyong and his colleagues, who planned to make large-scale changes to the J56 core plan and come up with a new core design as a prototype for the core design of a series of feature phones from WeCool Electronics next year.
And the improvement process was quite smooth. Just like now, Xie Jianyong looked at the improved design plan for a camera module he had just completed, touched his half-bald head, and muttered to himself: "Could it be that I have accumulated a lot of experience and then made a breakthrough to a higher level? After making mobile phones for a long time, I have accumulated a lot of experience and then made a breakthrough to a higher level in one fell swoop?"
Not only Xie Jianyong has this feeling, in fact many colleagues in the R&D department have similar feelings.
(End of this chapter)