Hu Ling, a member of the human resources team at Huawei’s elite 2012 Lab research unit posted a disgruntled open letter last week which was soon deleted. The letter criticised company’s overtime policy and higlighted that executives are covering up the extra work they have doing following the US ban.
According to a screenshot seen by Bloomberg News, the open letter shared by Hu Ling included the following statement which shows dissatisfaction and distrust developing within the Chinese corporation:
Take my advice brothers: Don’t trust HR, they have no honesty
In addition, the letter questioned the efficiency of engineers that are working overtime sessions. Huawei has confirmed the authenticity of the open letter, however, they declined to comment any further on the matter.
Huawei is known for its gruelling work culture aka “wolf culture” which they claim has helped them reach where they currently are. However, this philoshphy kicked into high gear after the Chinese corportation was designated to a blacklist by the U.S Commerce Department.
Since then, teams of engineers at Huawei started having 24 hour work days in shifts, in order to find alternatives to U.S based suppliers and their offerings which are valuable to the Chinese corporation.
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Besides, in the month of July, Huawei started rewarding employee who could increase revenue despite the ban. Notably, overtime is not uncommon in Chinese tech companies but this harsh work culture is seeing a downward trend as promises of “big payoff” are fading slowly.
Some employees of Huawei were resentful of the overtime work culture, but some were speaking up in its support. One employee wrote on the forum “The real force that takes down the company isn’t from outside but from within” which expressed regret that a company’s internal issues are being exposed to outsiders.
Lastly, Hu Ling’s post ended on a postive and encouging note for engineers who are still pulling of longer than usual work hours:
The era when engineers get full respect will come.
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