The middle levels who leave the large factory, reduce their salary and reduce their salary, live a low desire to live

In the past, the identity of the "mid -level manager of the Internet" has a lap with a halo, which means that the current achievements and the future determined in the distance: they are often younger than other industries, but they have greater management. Permanent, every decision has the opportunity to influence the company and the industry; in the rapid development of the Internet industry, there are more opportunities for promotion and salary increase. If you are lucky, you can accompany a company to go public, and they are more likely to achieve wealth freedom; Even on the normal development path, their annual salary and stocks are enough to win most of their peers.

This is another meaning of "ashore". Therefore, they are more willing to pay real gold and silver in consumption and investment, such as children's education and high leverage to buy a house. But now, the river water becomes again turbulent. In the rapid changes in the industry, the middle level of the Internet manufacturer has become an embarrassing identity. The business is tightened. Their promotion channel is closed. It is not as cost -effective as young people. Essence

Relying on overtime and self -drawing, you can get the years of promotion. It depends on whether the business and the industry meets the development trend of macroeconomics, and has nothing to do with personal will and capabilities.

Once they leave, they are facing more severe real problems: there is no better way out, there are old and small, carrying mortgages and car loans, they can only accept the reduction of salary and salary, living standards, self -cognitive self -cognition There is also a huge gap.

The middle layers are sandwiched in the middle, and the left and right are in dilemma.

Wen | Chang Fangfei

Edit | Zhao Lei

Operation | chestnut

"It's here"

After doing the online education industry for more than ten years, Lin Sen finally sat opposite the business supervisor of a traditional photovoltaic company and began to be reviewed from his resume. This taste is not easy.

Without a greeting, the other party looked at his high -distance resume and went straight into the theme: "Are you being laid off?" He did not explain, but gave a certain answer. The other party's doubts followed: "In theory, the education industry will never be outdated. Is there any problem with the personnel of the layoff at this time?"

Hearing this problem, Lin Sen basically knew the results of the interview. Although he was angry, he could be a job seeker who had old, down, and mortgage car loans. He couldn't go away. He persuaded himself: Maybe this is a stress interview, and tolerate.

The next question of the other party extinguished his last luck. The interviewer began to question the authenticity of his resume. The other party said that there was a friend who was on his way, but he had never heard of this position and Lin Sen. Lin Sen was asked by a series of aggressive questions, and he still worked hard to maintain a normal rhythm of communication. After confirming the name of the interviewer, Lin Sen knew that he had no colleague.

The interview with only 5 minutes is over. "This business supervisor does not understand online education. In the end HR feedback, I do not match this position with this position."

In the past year, there are many middle -level managers like Linsen who re -inflow into the talent market for various reasons and accept more stringent review by enterprises.

Li Nan has been a product manager for 8 years in a large factory, and he used to take the initiative to call him. After being laid off, the business director said that he had good ability in all aspects, but he did not have the news of the next round of interviews. Other companies on the market are "good without layoffs, Headcount has long been locked."

In the past, byte beating was a lower house that Li Nan's employee was preferred. As a company with the best development momentum in the industry and the fastest business expansion, the byte beating has recruited 40,000 people within a year, and this year has also stepped on the sudden brake. Just this month, the byte beating CEO Liang Rubo updated his personal OKR, saying that it would significantly reduce the recruitment plan from 2022 to 2023, and regarded the reduction of the growth rate of organizational scale and improved efficiency.

The middle levels who leave the large factory generally face the biggest problem is that it is difficult to find the home.

▲ Figure / Vision China

"This year's employment market has a relatively obvious supply than last year. There are many internet mid -levels watching opportunities, most of which are at the position of P8 (equivalent)." Said Jason Han, CGL senior partner, "But in fact many companies actually many companies I am not willing to accept the addition of the middle level, but P6 (equal) is better to find, because the integration of the new environment is high and the expectations of the employment are relatively low. "

From January to April of this year, the delivery behavior of hunting big data tracking programmers found that among job seekers with willingness to job, those who are willing to cut salary and jobs account for 55.34%of the overall large manufacturer's technical job seekers, more than half. Among the major Internet manufacturers of different levels, the middle -level manufacturers were willing to cut salary cuts from March to April this year to increase the most year -on -year, which was 25.74%, which was doubled over the same period last year.

After entering the buyer's market, the expectations of the middle levels have to be adjusted with it, which gives priority to solving the real level.

Lin Sen finally joined Tencent's information security department. During the interview, he still felt the interviewer's distrust of his ability. "Press the level directly into a supervisor, and the annual salary has been reduced at least 30%." But Lin Sen can also understand, "This position tends to have the work experience of call centers and customer service centers. It is pure because of the online education industry. Too many people. "The proof is that a director who worked in New Oriental has now become his colleague.

In addition, Lin Sen has to face the gap between management bandwidth and work content. From the management of 150 key universities, to communicating with front -line personnel, and doing some work closer to physical labor. But he calculated a account. The middle -level candidates will be recommended to "reduce their expectations." In the market environment that is greater than request, there are more choices for enterprises and recruiters, and people who need professional and industry backgrounds to be adapted at the same time. "I will let candidates list the most suitable scenes of their technical capabilities. For example, the middle level of online education, his technical advantages are switched to e -commerce and social business need to be re -matched. Candidates can understand this, and at the same time It will understand that this means that the annual salary must be discounted.

The former Ali employee Zhang Min is the kind of person who thinks he will not leave Hangzhou Xixi Park, but she said: "In the past many years, many of us are like Cinderella who has been on the pumpkin carriage. It will end. But now, it is here at 12 o'clock. "

"Recognize the reality, give up the fantasy"

The resumes of the middle managers are full of "becoming". Lin Sen personally participated in the whole process of the high -road regional operation center from scratch. The team completed more than 50 million revenue within half a year; The familiar explosive projects have all the popularity, exposure, and investment promotion.

These resumes covered with a layer of soft light, showing the past 10 years of gold, how can some young people who have just entered the society grow step by step into the mainstay of large enterprises. They are usually around 35 years old, graduated from colleges of 985/211, have vision and courage to Internet companies, and have the ability to use the general trend to make business.

Prior to this, as long as they grasped the company's rise, OKR would be, or when they met the boss and the core business, the road to promotion and salary increase would be very smooth. "As long as you are responsible for the growth rate of the business than the growth rate of the company's market value (valuation), there is no dragging team's back legs. You are qualified in the evaluation system of the large factory." Jason said. From a team with several people to a team of hundreds of people, they have become an important intermediate layer and various business lines to communicate.

They also depend on the successful experience of the work judgment. Recently, a middle level from Ali's resignation says that the "gold content" of new posts is the possibility of whether it is the core business of the enterprise and whether it is still growing.

In addition, many emotional factors are considered, such as personal self -esteem. It was found that the interviewer was his former subordinate, and he could immediately give up this opportunity if he didn't want to, and "also saves the other party embarrassing." Until the first half of 2021, the employment market can tolerate this "willful" -after all, 30%of the salary increase is not worth mentioning at all, and the total package doubles is the "normal level" of the industry.

But now, the entire industry is "reducing costs and increased efficiency." Specifically, Internet companies focus on those who make money, and the business of burning money is basically not done. How about digging people at a high salary?

"The workplace is like a fame. When successful, everyone can see you, and the spotlight hit you. But when you (your company/industry) is in a disadvantage, no one will pay too much attention. This is the workplace very Reality and cruel place, "Jason said.

Many large factories need to re -examine their "success" before reducing their expectations.

▲ Zhongguancun Software Park is a brilliant starting point for many large factories. Photo / Visual China

Lin Sen witnessed and participated in the size of the entire high -road operation center from 30 to 200 people. After get off work at 12 pm, he was still thinking about which work needs to be arranged immediately and what key indicators need to follow up. After re -examination for 2 hours, you can rest with peace of mind.

"I have all my thoughts and students." He had no complaints about the intensity of such work, and even directly dismissed a teacher who no longer responded to the work information after work. "We ask students to reply within 2 hours."

Lin Sen became the kind of teacher most trusted by students, and also got the top repayment and wider possibility of the industry in the same industry. The cost is to pay all the time. In the two years of online education, even his subordinates can be promoted to the level of the manager. However, after the industry fluctuated, Lin Sen, who stayed in the highway, also fell together, and the colleagues who switched to the big factory were now higher than him.

"Choose and the timing is greater than hard work." Lin Sen comforted himself like this. Since he enjoyed the dividend of the early industry, he must bear the result of the current choice. "When the education industry is on the vent, the salary level of our practitioners may increase rapidly, and the ability is not matched." He reflected.

"It will be difficult to choose the wrong industry. For example, people who have worked in the P2P industry, if they still retain this experience in their resumes, will greatly discount professional resumes." Jason said, "Some people would rather open the skylight 'and say that they went abroad to go abroad to go abroad. After traveling, getting married and having children, I don't want to mention this experience again. "

Yin Mo, who has worked in Ali for 6 years, is a P8. She originally thought that the competitive intensity of Ali's internal horse racing was fierce enough. Any team needed to get the result of the group's resources. Even if they belong to a P9 management, the two teams need to obtain Ali's mother's resource tilt. They need internal drafts. Regardless of winning or losing, both parties need to write a review and summary of the resource party, "clearly say where my plan is strong." With the comparison and IP construction, Yin Mo can complete hundreds of millions of transactions and sit up with many heads of corporate enterprise executives. At first she did not understand why there were middle -level employees who worked in Ali for more than ten years. When she left Ali and found that she was no longer understanding the meaning of "baby circle" and "valley circle" (anime peripheral), I realized why many Ali middle levels were not in the middle level. Willing to leave.

"Other companies cannot receive an annual salary of about one million, and the other side is that we have the path to the platform. To put it plainly, Ali's trial error space is very large. We don't have to be responsible for 100%of the results of a marketing plan."

Many people use "doing push -ups in the elevator" to metaphorize the unbearable sense of superiority in the middle level, which means sitting on a rising elevator, no matter what posture is used, it can reach the top floor. "Many middle levels just follow the right person, choose the right business, and have execution, rather than really creativity," Jason said.

A headhunter told frankly that the middle manager from this large factory was difficult to find a "suitable" position in companies at the same level. "Still recognize reality and give up fantasy."

▲ Figure / Vision China

Minimum life

After leaving the large factory, the middle -level people who once had a lot of energy had to adapt to the new reality.

Li Nan joined a large factory when he was 31 years old. Now he is 39 years old. At the end of last year, his real estate business line was abolished as a whole and gave compensation for N+1, but the stock would not be fulfilled. He decided to initiate labor arbitration, from HR, legal affairs to vice presidents, and semi -persuaded Li Nan to pay tens of thousands of dollars for compensation, and do not wait for the company to unilaterally terminate the contract. But Li Nan was unwilling. "I have been in this company for 8 years, but in the end, they treat me like this. If I agree to negotiate, I may feel nauseous in this life."

But for the dignity, he must hold the determination of the strong man to break his wrist -between 1 or 2 years of arbitration, Li Nan cannot have any social security records and cannot join the new company. "Social security is cut off, I don't want to get a Beijing hukou anyway." He said, "Housing loan is 15,000 per month, and I can also support it with savings."

Li Nan is indignant to his 8 years in the company. He has always been like a rejuvenation of running. He always circulates between different new businesses. I didn't do it soon. "

In this repeated run, Li Nan's personal ability and achievements have become difficult to evaluate. Except for a large -scale universal reconciliation, he has not gained any sense of accomplishment. Li Nan thought about leaving, but finally looked at the annual salary of general adjustments and the stocks that expired each year on a monthly basis. year. There is also a job with a headhunter with a well -rising salary increase in the middle. He does not want to refuse directly. Behind the Internet is the inferiority that the Internet pursues young people brings to him. "The bytes are all young people in 'volume'. I am older and I have no confidence."

▲ Most of the employees of byte beating are very young. Photo / Visual China

After leaving the old owner, Li Nan began to focus on the vibrato. Every day is very fast. Find questions, write, shoot, release, and make two more meals by yourself. One day passed. Many times the first sentence Li Nan gets up is to the camera.

Become a self -media practitioner, let him go away from the inertia of the product manager of the big factory and enter a fragmented life. At all times, someone was looking for him. Colleagues with the same situation would come to greet them, followers will come to consult the process of layoffs compensation, and even fans let him help him to repair the computer.

Recently, his topic is to shoot how he uses 1,000 yuan (removed mortgages) to live in Beijing: cooking three meals a day, green vegetable noodles, and eating meat on weekends. Essence Occasionally improve life and buy a seasonal fruit in the nearby wholesale market. Calculate the transportation and broadband costs. The basic living expenditure of full monthly calculation is about 1,600 yuan. This is the most basic expense of a person to survive.

In addition, he also has a variety of money -saving tricks. For example, build a few more layers of folders for shopping software to reduce the frequency of open opening; then put the bank's APP on the most conspicuous position of the screen, urge yourself to save money, and go straight out of the offline shopping. Use accounting software to review your expenses from time to time.

Even the new house furniture that Chinese people pay attention to, he buys second -hand. The wardrobe was raised in the second -hand market, 800 yuan, not only delivered the goods to the door to help him modify the size; the table, dining chair, and TV cabinet were all bought for only 2,000 yuan. Some people suspect that second -hand furniture is too dirty, Li Nanping gives him a solution: "Dip with white vinegar with a rag, and it will fall away."

He repeatedly said that saving is his habit of always, not because of layoffs to unemployment. "Don't pursue too much about material." He also asked at the end of the film, "Where do those who spend five or six thousand a month spend the money?"

In the sweeping of consumerism, there is a confusing words: every consumption is voting for the world you want. According to this standard, Li Nan lives a minimum life in Beijing. The loan of 15,000 yuan a month happened to be a one -month income of his wife. After priority, the family's living expenses, his son's tuition and accommodation fee became a problem. In the video, Li Nan seemed to be safe and accepted his situation. Only occasionally chatting with fans will expose their fragility. “很多人质疑我的开销，然后我才发现，原来我在北京没有生活。没有娱乐活动和人情来往、没有聚会、没有份子钱。”他说，“其实还是家乡好，有父母亲人，还有The unique taste of food and air in his hometown. "But this idea was just a flash. He knew that he had no retreat and" still had to make money. " "There is always a sense of anxiety in Beijing, which makes you want to do something, you can't relax."

He recently started trying to pick up some advertisements online and offline. "There is a former colleague doing MCN, and they help me pick up the business list. The specific details of the cooperation are they talked." So far, Pinduoduo has been put on him. Originally, Pinduoduo hoped that he could promote the iPhone 13, but Li Nan was Li Nan, but Li Nan I feel that I can't afford it, and replace the product with a self -heated small hot pot. He just made a video for a recruitment website, got 1,000 yuan in labor expenses, and bought meat for himself happily. Some people think that selling goods in Douyin can earn a lot of money, and he explained that "a total of hundreds of a total of hundreds, no‘ 10,000 ’words.” Many fans see his situation of his situation: what Li Nan is doing now is what we can do after we were layoffs at the age of 40, and my brother first gave us the same.

▲ The younger employees walked into Tencent Building. Photo / Visual China

There are also some worse stories: Tencent has a middle -level applied for interest -free loans in the company's welfare. As a result, it is layoffs. It will return hundreds of thousands of loans. pressure.

Only middle -aged people like Yin Mo can feel relaxed. She has no marriage and no mortgage. After leaving Ali, she travels to many places. She saw a group of horses, the snow mountains that gathered together, and felt the 26 -degree mountain wind blowing from the bottom of the cliff.

After all, the sun will fall down, maybe the sunset elsewhere is more beautiful.

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