While Zhao Yi was busy working on the operating system, the human resources company also recruited some people one after another. Some of them came from research institutes and had a certain foundation, but most of them were interns from various universities.
To be honest, it is more difficult to find college students than programmers in research institutes these days. First, these college students have not yet joined the workforce, have not been beaten up by society, and are a bit idealistic. Second, these college students are basically the first batch of college students after the resumption of the college entrance examination, so they have no worries about work. In addition, the study courses are much more intense than in previous lives, and they have no time to take care of anything else.
Later, it was because they heard that Zhao Yi had many minicomputers for them to work on that they were willing to come here for internship. After all, most of the schools were textbook theory-based, and there were not many opportunities to use computers.
Zhao Yi looked at the twenty or so people in front of him and was a little worried about the completion of the software company's predetermined goals. One is that the number of people is too small, and the other is that the technology is generally not up to standard and cannot be done alone. But there is no way, even more than ten years later, if you can write "hello? world", you can join the company.
So Zhao Yi had another task, which was to train them. Fortunately, their theoretical knowledge is quite solid, but they are weak in practical skills, and here we can provide each person with a small computer, which is enough for them to practice.
In this way, I was training and working at the same time, and the recruitment never stopped. By the end of August, the company finally had about 50 employees.
The operating system at this time was also called a disk operating system, which was the DOS system as we know it. Its functions were relatively simple and there was no visual interface, so people could still cope with it. As for the office software and subsequent industrial software that Zhao Yi wants to write, forget about it for the time being.
Half a day of training every day, half a day of checking their code and helping them solve problems. To be honest, this is currently the company that Zhao Yi cares most about.
In the busy time, the time came to September 20, and Zhao Yi finally got a reply from the Fourth Ministry of Machinery Industry, agreeing to Zhao Yi's acquisition.
So Zhao Yi left the software design information and asked employees who already had work experience to train those raw melon eggs. At the same time, the person in charge of each functional module and the person in charge of the underlying interface are arranged.
According to Zhao Yi's idea, he couldn't stay in the software company forever. He had to choose a person in charge to manage the company, so he chose from these people in charge and waited to see how they performed after he was done with the semiconductor company. Make another decision.
After the arrangements were made, Zhao Yi, accompanied by personnel from the Ministry of Machinery Industry, took over the research institute project teams and factories that needed to be acquired.
Some research institutes are actually doing okay, and they have not yet reached the point where the blame cannot be revealed. They are resistant to, or even strongly opposed to, the acquisition of Zhao Yi, a private company, and they often slam the table against the personnel of the Ministry of Industry.
There is no other way, Zhao Yi can only launch a gold and dollar offensive. First, he will give the original unit cash compensation according to the number of employees who come to his company, which is not the acquisition cost; second, he will increase the salary of the employees who come to his company to ten times that of the original unit. ; The third is to purchase social insurance for people who come to the company, so that they have no worries; the fourth is to provide accommodation and work subsidies if they work in other places. If the family moves, it will provide moving expenses and provide household registration and housing.
Although the second and third items are now standard features of Zhao Yi's company, these units and personnel are not clear about it, and the last item is the support obtained after communicating with the Shanghai Municipal Government. Yes, Zhao Yi decided to put this company in Shanghai Come up, because Shanghai has the largest accumulation in this area, and the household registration in Shanghai can also attract more talents to join. Of course, the funds that should be paid must not be less. For example, Zhao Yi pays for employee housing.
In this way, all parties benefited, the atmosphere became harmonious again, and the handover process became much smoother.
After following personnel from the Ministry of Industry all over the country, Zhao Yi finally established a semiconductor company and a precision instrument company in Shanghai.
Then Zhao Yi arranged the development of various semiconductor equipment for the Precision Instrument Company. The equipment involved included photolithography machines, etching machines, ion implanters, single crystal furnaces, wafer dicing machines, wafer thinning machines, vapor phase epitaxy furnaces, Oxidation furnace, low pressure chemical vapor deposition system, plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition system, magnetron sputtering station, chemical mechanical grinder, wire bonding machine, probe test bench, etc.
Some of these devices already have a certain foundation, and some are basically blank. So Zhao Yi copied the equipment design drawings and preparation processes in detail one by one, and then handed them to the company's general manager Zhao Deshang, who asked him to group the personnel according to their professions for research.
In order to increase the enthusiasm of employees, bonuses were also set up for different equipment. Due to the different difficulty of preparation, the bonuses are also different, but a deadline is given. The project team will be rewarded 10,000 yuan for every 10 days in advance.
In Zhao Yi's eyes, providing technology with funds and rewards, if it cannot be completed before June 1980, it will be unqualified.
After finishing the work on precision instruments, Zhao Yi found the semiconductor company again and handed over the chip design plan to them, asking them to design the chip first. As for manufacturing, since the equipment has not been released yet, don't think about it for the time being, but the factory has been arranged. People are building.
After inspecting the technical level and management level of the semiconductor company's personnel, at Zhou Ling's suggestion, a 40-year-old middle-aged man named Lin Aiguo was appointed as the manager of the semiconductor company.
At the same time, Zhao Yi asked the law firm to handle the relevant procedures for Pusi Chemical Company. This company's current main task is to develop and produce chemical products needed in semiconductor manufacturing, involving commonly used acids, commonly used bases, commonly used solvents, general gases, Special gases, photoresists and supporting reagents, etc.
Then he asked a human resources company to help find talents, and finally Zhao identified Professor Duan Jianhong from Kyoto University. As for why the good university didn't want to come to work in the company Zhao Yi just established, Zhao Yi said he didn't know. The professor himself said it was personal reasons and didn't want to talk about this issue. Zhou Ling also recommended Zhao Yi to keep him, so Zhao Yi would stay. Get rid of him. Zhao Yi still trusts Zhou Ling's ability.
While busy with the affairs of the chemical company, Zhao Yi also paid attention to the situation of industrial software used in China and his own company.
Feeling that domestic industrial design software and chip design software are lagging behind, Zhao Yi needs to solve these problems after he is busy with these things. As for Zhao Yi's own software company, there are three or two kittens. Not to mention the strength, but as far as the disk operating system is concerned Things have become indistinguishable.
Zhao Yi, who had no choice but to go to the Ministry of Machinery Industry, told him about the difficulties he was currently encountering, and expressed the hope that some people who understand both industry and procedures could be seconded to provide financial compensation to these units, as well as these people. Salaries are also paid by oneself.
The Ministry of Machinery Industry also knew about the situation of my country's industrial software industry, and coupled with Zhao Yi's compensation promise, it agreed to help Zhao Yi ask. Although there is a shortage of scientific researchers in this era, the lack of funds is even more serious. After weighing the pros and cons, they both made the right choice.
In this way, after Zhao Yi once again showed his ability, a team of more than 200 people was pulled out and was also arranged at the software company. One team focuses on EDA software, one team focuses on CAD software, and one team focuses on MATLAB software.
Zhao Yi sorted out the design ideas, some algorithms and pseudo-code of the three software and handed them over to the three teams, and also participated in them. For others, writing software is a strenuous task, but for Zhao Yi, it is no different from a student who is punished by the teacher for copying. Apart from the workload, there is no difficulty.
Zhao Yi also used a small trick to give these seconded employees a salary that is five times higher than their original salary. In his daily life, he often revealed his company's benefits and the salary of regular employees, etc., and also showed that he was superhuman. technical strength.
I hope that these seconded employees will be attracted to his company whether it is because of money or technical issues, but I don’t know how many people will be left after completing these projects.
Regardless of the difficulties and twists and turns, the bumps and bruises finally made a good start. Software companies, semiconductor companies and precision instrument companies finally set sail. (End of chapter)