Inspirational Chicken Soup or History of Blood and Tears: An Illustrated Guide to the Counterattack of Chinese Elites in Silicon Valley_Silicon Valley Insight Blog

In the analysis of the previous issue, we found that among the current Chinese technical executives of major technology companies in Silicon Valley, those with a prestigious school education, corresponding majors, and internships in major companies are the vast majority of elites. standard configuration. More than 40% are concentrated in the top 20 universities, 98% are from orthodox STEM majors, 90% The starting line of the professional career is already in the much-anticipated FAMG factory. Perhaps such a winner in life is purely for looking up to, but we also found some counterattack possibilities in the data. They either came from ordinary colleges, or missed offers from big companies when they graduated, but after ten years of hard work, they finally realized their dreams of executives in Silicon Valley. So, is there any common secret among these successful counterattacks?

Not much to say, let’s take a look at the answer behind the data. Hello everyone, I am Luna, an analyst at OCInsights in Silicon Valley. Today, I continued to study the resumes of 3,000 working Chinese technical executives from Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, and Google. attackers and analyzed their career trajectories.

1.Double non-department

VS is a questioner

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For engineers studying in China,

What is the probability that a non-985 or 211 college graduate will enter a big factory?

The answer is one in a thousand.

Moreover, in our research sample, these engineers who were born in “Double Non” colleges and universities did not go to traditional elite schools to study for postgraduate and doctoral studies as we imagined; Road, most of them came to the United States through internal transfers after working in the Chinese branch of a major technology company for 8-15 years.

Of course, before entering the Chinese branch of a big factory, they have worked hard to accumulate experience in small and medium-sized companies that are not known, and they have won this marathon step by step. If there are programmers and audience friends who are interested in replicating this counterattack road, then you may wish to consider Microsoft, a multinational company that is friendly to job transfers, and it may really be possible for Beijing to meet Seattle.

2.Who can change jobs

Into a big factory

In the previous program, we also found that among the current Chinese technology executives of Silicon Valley technology companies, more than 90% of the engineers started their careers from their current technology companies, while only 10% The engineers and executives who are less than 100,000 belong to the “curve to save the country” and have come to today’s company.

Among the 10% executives who are not born in the direct line, there is still a large proportion of them who do not belong to the ranks of traditional counter-attackers. For example, 22% joined the job from the other three FAMGs, and the most common direction is from Microsoft to Google and Facebook.

In addition, there are many engineers and executives who did not work in the technology giant FAMG before joining the company, but the company they worked for can be regarded as a famous brand company in the technology industry, and the highest proportion of them is Amazon, IBM, Yahoo, Intel, Oracle, Motorola, HP, Samsung, Qualcomm, Cisco, the total proportion of engineers from these ten star technology companies is about 17.5%.

The majority of the remaining engineers also come from companies of different sizes in the software and Internet industries, from star unicorns such as Salesforce and Airbnb to many boutiques with less than 100 employees specializing in a certain field software company. Adding up the zeros and zeros, they accounted for 33% of all engineers who were not born in the direct line.

However, we still have to believe that the road to Rome is more thanArticle. There are also a small number of engineers who have worked for IT consulting companies before entering large factories, including traditional large consulting companies such as Accenture and Booz Allen Hamilton, as well as companies headquartered in India such as Infosys and Tata Consulting Services. Enterprises, that is, ICC, which is popular among Chinese overseas students. Only they themselves know the hard work behind the leap from Party B to Party A.

Other popular job-hopping source industries include semiconductors, investment banking and financial services, games, electronic communications, biomedicine, etc., and even a very small number of Chinese technology executives have worked in non-profit organizations and the media industry .

So here comes the problem.

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Before entering the big factory,

How long did it take for these successful counterattackers to get the admission ticket to the big factory?

The data shows that they accumulated an average of 8.6 years of experience when they jumped to a large factory. The so-called ten years of sharpening a sword will eventually enter a big factory.

3.Proximity

Get the month first?

Finally, let’s take a look at which areas of the world the engineers who have successfully counterattacked have fought monsters and upgraded.

It is said that close to the water is the first to get the moon. Indeed, among the groups that have successfully counterattacked, 38% of technical talents have been stationed in Silicon Valley, the world’s leading technological frontier, and 19% of engineers have chosen Seattle, where the same giants gather. However, there are also 10% of technical executives who are not from direct descendants who did not have any working experience in the United States before joining their current major American factories: Of course, as we mentioned at the beginning, among them 7% are transferred from domestic divisions to work in the US headquarters, while the remaining 3% are head technology companies from my country, such as Baidu , Alibaba, Netease, Huawei, Jingdong, etc.