The chip industry's salary increase on the other side: the recruitment demand is less

On the outlet of the economic observation reporter Zhou Yingmei chip industry, "dug people at high prices" and "soaring salary" are the normality of the past. Mr. Lu is an IC (integrated circuit) design engineer of a chip listed company. For two years, his salary has tripled.

Mr. Wang, who works at the Beijing Zhongguancun Integrated Circuit Design Park (ICPARK), will also call him "Wang Gong". Mr. Wang is also a blogger "ICER Dine Film". He is an IC engineer born in 1996. He graduated last year and joined the integration circuit industry for one year. He was very satisfied with his current situation. During this time, he participated in the development of a AI chip and a CPU chip in the company. During the year, the biggest harvest was to contact the entire R & D process. From the planning of the product department to the streaming films, he had the opportunity to participate in the study. "Bring me a better salary return, and also gained a sense of accomplishment in work."

"IC is now in a large development period in China, and the salary on the wind is generally highly opened. The salary of three times within two years is actually scary." Mr. Lu said. In 2020, Mr. Lu graduated from electrical major and switched to the IC industry. His salary was much higher than that of students who were engaged in counterparts with a professional. Many students had a monthly salary of about 10,000.

For a year, Mr. Wang's salary increased by 30%to 50%. "This is a conventional level. If you go to the market, you may choose to change jobs. It may be much higher. Now it is more crazy. Many years of work experience in one or two years will also be hopped for salary. This is an abnormal point in the industry. Let's talk about training a engineer for at least three years. "Mr. Wang said.

Fighting the "card neck" problem, the country pays more and more attention to the training of talents in the integrated circuit industry. Last year, many universities such as Peking University and Tsinghua University set up integrated circuit colleges. On December 30, 2020, the Degree Committee of the State Council and the Ministry of Education's degree [2020] No. 30 officially set the "integrated circuit science and engineering" as a first -level discipline, the subject code is "1401", which belongs to the newly established 14th 14th. "Cross Discipline" for the subject category.

However, changes are happening. A chip industry headhunter told the Economic Observer that this year's chip company's recruitment demand has reduced, and the recruitment threshold is getting higher. As practitioners, Mr. Lu and Mr. Wang also feel the same. After the air outlet, the chip industry also needs order to return to solve the technical problem itself.

High salary

Mr. Lu entered the chip industry in 2020. After 2019, the chip industry is relatively hot, and this year is also the time point for IC companies to start large -scale expansion. Mr. Lu's company also entered expansion in 2020, and the number of employees doubled.

Mr. Lu is equivalent to entering the industry across professionalism. He graduated from Heilongjiang University of Science and Technology and studied electrical major. His classmates are relatively small in semiconductor industry. He said that the school he was studying was an electronic university, and during the school studies, many IC -related content. "At that time, it happened that the company where I was currently recruited digital ICs, the salary given in good came in."

When he first graduated in 2020, Mr. Lu's salary was more than 10,000, and his salary twice doubled within two years. His classmates went to electrical and electronic information professional counterparts, such as automation companies and motor equipment production companies. The salary is not low, and the monthly salary is about 10,000, but it is far lower than that of Mr. Lu.

Mr. Wang graduated in July 2021. At that time, there were six or seven admission notices on his hand. He had previously studied in an electronic science and technology major in a double first -class university in Hunan. This major has jointly trained students with Peking University. Therefore, he studied in the second and educated three studies at Peking University, and then stayed in Beijing to work. He was born in the science class. He said that the students in the current science class are better to find a job.

Mr. Wang mentioned that the previous integrated circuit major may be considered a slightly unpopular professional, but in the past three or four years, it has become very hot, the enrollment has also expanded, and there are quite a few other related industries that have changed careers. "Newly established startups have become more. Slightly larger factories, they all started new product lines and need to expand some people. The country and local provinces and cities are also supporting this industry, and they are making some subsidies. It is really lacking in the industry. "Mr. Wang said.

Some colleagues in contact with Mr. Wang had a salary of only seven or eight thousand when they graduated from 2013 to 2014. After 2017 and 2018, the graduates of this industry have been rising. Most of the graduates of the master's degree in 2022 can get 20 ~ 30K monthly salary. The annual salary of many post -80s technology leaders in the company is a million level.

The younger schoolmate that Mr. Wang has contacted, and the work will basically choose integrated circuit majors. "They are more interested in this industry and feel that future development will be willing to come." Mr. Wang also revealed to reporters that his company's 2022 school enrollment has reached 500,000. "In our industry, this level is normal this year." Mr. Wang also mentioned that excellent master doctoral graduates will be higher and more than 700,000.

According to the data provided by BOSS direct hires to the Economic Observation News, the chip industry has chip verification engineers, analog IC design engineers, chip test engineers, chip back-end design engineers, chip architects. Most of the monthly salary is 25,000 yuan, The monthly salary limit for some positions can reach 70,000 to 90,000 yuan.

The challenge behind the high salary "Due to the characteristics of chip research and development, the R & D cycle is long, and the R & D difficulty is relatively difficult. It belongs to that kind of high -tech dense industry. A chip will invest in many people and do a lot of energy to do it. This cannot be avoided. This is the situation of overtime, "Mr. Lu said.

When I was in school, Mr. Lu felt that he had strong ability and was familiar with what was faster. However, after entering the chip industry, he found that making a chip is a particularly detailed line. Each step needs to be checked, and there will be errors in a little carelessness. "If there is a mistake, the chip flow is a brick, which is equivalent to a company. At least half a year of investment is in vain." Mr. Lu said.

"We are design companies, only responsible for the front end of the entire chip development and manufacturing process." Mr. Lu said, "Single we chip design, at least 20 to 30 steps. Then give it to SMIC or TSMC. , Make the chip out. Finally, give it to the packaging test manufacturer to encapsulate the chip as a chip we can see. In fact, there are many small chips inside it. "

Mr. Lu said that there are many processes in the packaging test. Dozens of nanometer chips are high and precise, and there will be some errors. This involves how to test and how to check. Not only do you make it, there is a problem to analyze it after making it, but also the means to be analyzed. This is also a more difficult place.

Mr. Wang mentioned that even if the class entered the post, there was a process of adapting to work, such as some software and some specific tools to be used. "Some people who transfer to career may have more things to make up during the specific work. I see some people who switch to, they may be slower in understanding. In specific work, it takes more time to make up for the gap. "

At work, Mr. Wang also realized the gap between domestic and foreign technology. "Some of our company's high -level officials are the Qingbei Shuobo of the 70s and 80s. They also have experience in learning technology abroad, and some technologies with more advanced exposure have come back. It is relatively slow to develop domestic development. "Mr. Wang said," As a result, it has been less than 20 years in the domestic industry. It has been at least 40 or fifty years abroad. In fact, it is not that we are worse than them, but we must know It ’s shorter to our development than them."

Mr. Wang said that if you want to be a talent like them, they have to learn around them and see how their more than ten years of experience accumulate.

Mr. Wang's company's company is flexible. "Do not check in, usually go to the company at 9 and 10 in the morning. The normal situation is 67.965." , The project is progressing to your link, you may live a little more. If you do n’t finish it, add a little more, and work at the latest to 10 pm and 11 pm. This will not happen in the early morning. You are more relaxed and you can arrange it flexibly. "

It is also a technician. Mr. Wang believes that the integrated circuit industry does not have a 35 -year -old crisis of the Internet. "This industry is more experienced. Unlike the Internet, there is still advanced technology to learn by the age of 35. It may not be completed in two or three years of chip. The 35 -year -old is about 10 years old. Chip. The market needs experienced personnel, 35 to 45 years old will still be more popular. "Mr. Wang said that many post -80s technicians leading newcomers to do projects are very fighting spirit, and salary will not be less.

However, Mr. Wang mentioned that the threshold is getting higher. Before the undergraduate, he can also enter the IC industry. In the past two years, the school recruitment is basically a master's degree, and he will also tend to be a person with a background and related internship experience.

Mr. Lu also believes that it will be more difficult to enter the industry now. In 2020, Mr. Lu just entered the industry, it just happened to catch up with the company's expansion period. It was not very high for education and other requirements. People with related learning experiences and software use backgrounds were better to enter the industry. "Now a word -'Volume', everyone knows that after this industry, they all learn this thing, and the threshold for applicants will be higher. Recruitment is more biased towards the science class, the microelectronics major, and the education education is also inclined to graduate students."

Old and new issues

A chip industry headhunter told the Economic Observer that the recruitment demand for chip companies this year has become less. "This year, a lot of companies have slowly started locking, which is not the industry secret. For example, the horizon has basically no social recruitment since April, and Intel now has no job recruitment. Last year, some companies lacked people. As long as it is a related major, it can be transferred to the industry within five years of graduation, and the enterprise will provide industry training. At present, the overall market is tight this year, not only the chip industry, but the same industry is the same. "The chip industry said.

According to data from the Economic Observation News from the Lagou Recruitment Data Research Institute, in the past four years, the talent needs of the high -tech smart hardware industry have gone through obvious fluctuations. Since 2021, industry talent demand has ushered in steadily, and it has continued to reach the high point of talent demand until the third quarter of 2021. Among them, it is represented by high -tech hardware such as smartphones, smart wearing, smart home appliances, and high -tech hardware such as chips, integrated circuits, and semiconductors, which has promoted the expansion of the scale of industry talents. However, affected by the environmental environment of the new crown pneumonia and the environmental layoffs of the IT industry, the industry's talent demand fell slightly in the fourth quarter of 2021. The above -mentioned chip industry headhunter stated that each company will take stock of the recruitment needs of the following year at the end of each year. By the second half of last year, the needs of the entire industry are very large. After the beginning of the first half of this year, the recruitment began to decrease. "It is mainly to reduce costs. Now IC companies are not particularly much. Some time ago, companies have raised 100 billion yuan, but for the chip industry, this is not a large amount of financing, and the cost of making chip is very large."

"Generally, the chip industry recruits people. Basically, there is no budget limit. Recruitment is often a super budget." When they recruit people, they often have a problem. It is not a problem that costs much, but it cannot be recruited. "The above chip industry said.

"Other industries, such as the AI ​​industry, recruit people in autonomous driving positions, the applicant can do machine vision before. As long as there is relevant experience, it is relatively easy to switch to. But come. There may be a few hundred people in this market. There are more companies. People are still those who are still in the short period of time. The short -term training cannot be released. " Few people over 10 years. Although there are many chip companies, most chip talents are dug out from Huawei Hisilicon.

"It will be easier to find a job last year, but it will be difficult to get a high salary. After chatting with some people this year, I learned that the salary will not be reduced, and the salary of the school will steadily increase. . "The headhunter of the above chip industry said.

The headhunter in the above chip industry said that the chip is a traditional industry, and the head effect will become more and more obvious. This domestic head effect has slowly appeared. I have been able to know which companies will walk ahead and which companies will fall behind. Recruiting demand will also be stable. These industry companies can not have so many people, and they will be more demanding on the background. "Some of the relatively cutting -edge teams, I used to recommend them before, basically as long as they graduated from the PhD, and even some doctoral doctors of top schools," said the headhunter of the above chip industry.

As for the increase in wages, the chip industry said that after three to five years, the personal project experience is not matched with the company's business, and the matching can reach a very high increase. "Generally, it is not particularly abnormal, and it is difficult to double. From the lowest valley, there may be twice or three times."

Both Mr. Lu and Mr. Wang identified that integrated circuits are their long -term employment direction. Mr. Lu believes that IC is not as fast as Internet demand. It is actually engineering category. Unlike applications, it especially needs experience, and the industry will be relatively stable.

"Now the country also needs talents in this area. If we do not do it, the latter generation will be more difficult to break through this technical blockade. I hope that more people who really want to make chips will join the industry, less less For the speculators who rushed to enter the Bank in front of them. Now that there are a lot of startups, it will cause an illusion, as if the chip industry is very prosperous. In fact, this industry still needs our technical accumulation. Those who overtake Europe and the United States need to absorb talents who really want to do technology to join the IC industry. "Mr. Wang said.

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