What is it like to outsource?
The real experience of a brother who has been outsourcing for 4 years.
A little different from most Huawei and Tencent outsourcing now, I am doing outsourcing for a research institute, which is very common now. The academic threshold for recruiting people in the research institute is relatively high, but there is a shortage of people to do the work, so I use outsourcing way to recruit people to work.
When I graduated from college, I applied for a resume through the job market. It was for a small company. He said it was cooperating with some very large companies and that I needed to go to that company to do projects and stay there. At that time, I didn’t understand that this was outsourcing. I thought the company was pretty awesome and it was all about big projects, so I passed on.
It is true that they are all big projects, but they have nothing to do with our company. The company sent abroad is China xxxx center, which mainly undertakes third-party evaluations of some military industries. I have been with this company for a year and a half, let me share my experience.
1. The difference from regular employees is not that big (when I was working there, things changed later), except that the salary is paid by the company I signed the contract with, we have no performance at the end of the year, only thirteen salary , and other benefits are the same as those in the center. .
2. When going out to do projects, we are not allowed to say that we are from the outsourcing company. We are all required to say that we are from the center (due to evaluation qualification issues, I guess).
3. The salary increase is relatively slow, because the salary is negotiated with the outsourcing company. When I joined the company, I was told to perform quarterly performance appraisals, but the company didn't care at all. I wanted to leave after working for a year, and the center only knew that our salary was very high. It was low, and the salary was increased by about 30% (the starting salary was very low), and they promised to make up for half a year's salary, but I still left after I stayed for the remaining six months.
4. There is no room for improvement, which is also the reason why I resigned. I was promised to become a regular employee in two years, but after I resigned, another friend of mine was still there. It is said that he refused to become a regular employee later because if the center’s performance was not good, he would only be offered a salary. 80% of the salary is with or without overtime pay, while the outsourcing salary is fixed with overtime pay.
I switched jobs to another outsourcing company, which was connected to a research institute. I came here because the salary I was given was higher than that of my original company, and when I left, my previous company didn’t have overtime pay, so here I was given overtime pay. The fee is relatively high. I stayed at this outsourcing company for another two and a half years, and my feelings were quite complicated.
1. In the research institute, you can clearly feel the difference from the regular employees, because everything is different. You don’t have what the regular employees have, and it has nothing to do with you at all.
2. There are no formal workstations, and people are there wherever the projects are. There is no fixed place to put things (there are lockers at the back for additional outsourcing). When there are many projects, you have to take your things everywhere.
3. Our direct leader is a regular employee. If you don’t do well, he will often send you back. He is often in a state of fear that he is about to lose his job. He has indeed dismissed several people, and those people have returned to the company. I can only resign.
4. Work a lot of overtime. 1246 overtime is the norm. Each department of the institute will have overtime statistics. If you work less overtime, you will think that your workload is not saturated. You often have to work overtime even if you have nothing to do. You will always find something to do. .
5. You can’t get along with regular employees. Even if you work on projects together every day, you rarely have a good relationship. Generally, formal employees play with regular employees, and outsourcing plays with outsourcing. This play refers to private communication, and there is no other communication with regular employees except work and likes on WeChat.
6. There is no room for improvement. It is basically impossible to become a full-time graduate and enter a graduate school (I heard that it was possible before). Nowadays, the academic qualifications are more strict and you must be a graduate student with 211 or above. So if you stay here, you will always be working at the bottom.
7. There will be some psychological imbalance, that is, when a new official employee comes in, he needs to understand that you may be leading the new project, but soon he will be your leader, and all your work will be arranged by him.
8. This is where I say the feelings are more complicated. Because there are relatively few formal employees, you have the opportunity to be exposed to the entire project process. You can participate in the entire process from the initial project establishment to the final project summary, so you can learn a lot. There are still quite a few, and I have grown a lot in the process.
Finally, because I work too much overtime and travel a lot, and I have been in a state of being threatened by the leader for a long time (that is, if you don’t do well, I will quit you), I feel that our leader may not like me very much, although he always uses it as a joke. The tone said, but it feels really bad to be reminded that my power of life and death is in the hands of others), so I still resigned.
The advice I give to the kids who have just graduated is to avoid outsourcing as much as possible. After I resigned from the research institute, I went out to look for a job and found that I was somewhat out of touch with the Internet companies outside. I basically don’t know the latest technology. I don’t want to make up that I know it. I think it’s easy to reveal your secrets in interviews, and even if you get in, it will be difficult to get started directly, so it’s very difficult to submit a resume.
There is also the need to understand more about new technologies and learn more. When I was in the research institute, I felt that business was very important, so when I came to new projects, I basically studied business. When I came out, I found that my efforts were in the wrong direction. I knew how to do that A set of business is basically useless in external Internet companies.
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