How Chinese programmers live at work
40-year-old Dai Xiang, a former engineer of a machine-building company, fell asleep on the floor at the beginning of his career during 72-hour shifts. After that he moved to the information technology industry and slept face down on the table for 15 years. But in 2015, he founded his own cloud computing company, and his first order was the installation of a dozen bunk beds.
If Google employees live in the office , because they want to save on rent, in Chinese companies it is a necessity: business grows so fast that new people do not have time to recruit.
Photos: Jason Lee, Reuters and Techinsider
The Chinese information technology industry has been developing particularly rapidly in recent years. Competition in the domestic market is one of the strongest in the world. In order not to fail deadlines, people have to spend the night right in the office. In the case of BaishanCloud, all the conditions were created for this - the founder installed bunk beds and officially allowed to sleep on them or right in the workplace.
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Cui Meng, CEO and co-founder of the startup Goopal, says that the growth rate of Chinese Internet companies is much higher than in the United States. The competitive environment in China is much more complicated.
Programmers have to work after the workday almost daily. To help them, the company is allowed to sleep during the day and after nine o'clock in the evening - right at the table, on the sofa or on the bag chair.
The founder of Goopal sometimes carefully covers his employees.
And he sleeps after dinner.
In the most extreme periods, technology companies allow employees to live in the office for the entire working week. The inscription on the wall: "God rewards the diligent."
An employee of the DouMiYouPin HR company from Monday to Friday goes to bed in the conference room so as not to go to the suburb of Beijing, where his house is located. The road takes more than an hour. The head of the department of “large clients” shares his “room” with three colleagues.
When you work together and spend the night in the same office, it’s more profitable to order food for everyone.
Although start-ups say that they decently get paid for their hours in the office, such a schedule has its price for personal life. “My child misses me,” says DouMiYouPin employee about her three-year-old daughter, whom she sees only on weekends. “It makes me feel a little guilty.”
The 28-year-old programmer at Renren Credit Management, which uses big data to manage financial risk, works at least twice a week until three or four in the morning: “I don’t have the opportunity or the time to find a girlfriend.”
If Google employees live in the office , because they want to save on rent, in Chinese companies it is a necessity: business grows so fast that new people do not have time to recruit.
Photos: Jason Lee, Reuters and Techinsider
The Chinese information technology industry has been developing particularly rapidly in recent years. Competition in the domestic market is one of the strongest in the world. In order not to fail deadlines, people have to spend the night right in the office. In the case of BaishanCloud, all the conditions were created for this - the founder installed bunk beds and officially allowed to sleep on them or right in the workplace.
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Technology is the work of the brain in the first place. Employees need time to look for inspiration. Our recreation area is open not only at night, it is also allowed to sleep during the day.
Cui Meng, CEO and co-founder of the startup Goopal, says that the growth rate of Chinese Internet companies is much higher than in the United States. The competitive environment in China is much more complicated.
Programmers have to work after the workday almost daily. To help them, the company is allowed to sleep during the day and after nine o'clock in the evening - right at the table, on the sofa or on the bag chair.
The founder of Goopal sometimes carefully covers his employees.
And he sleeps after dinner.
In the most extreme periods, technology companies allow employees to live in the office for the entire working week. The inscription on the wall: "God rewards the diligent."
An employee of the DouMiYouPin HR company from Monday to Friday goes to bed in the conference room so as not to go to the suburb of Beijing, where his house is located. The road takes more than an hour. The head of the department of “large clients” shares his “room” with three colleagues.
We have to get up at 8:30, because other employees come to work by 9:30, and we wash in the toilet, which everyone uses.
When you work together and spend the night in the same office, it’s more profitable to order food for everyone.
Although start-ups say that they decently get paid for their hours in the office, such a schedule has its price for personal life. “My child misses me,” says DouMiYouPin employee about her three-year-old daughter, whom she sees only on weekends. “It makes me feel a little guilty.”
The 28-year-old programmer at Renren Credit Management, which uses big data to manage financial risk, works at least twice a week until three or four in the morning: “I don’t have the opportunity or the time to find a girlfriend.”
In fact, overtime is a normal thing. Because I have put my whole being into this company.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/369039/
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