On December 8th, a user whose authentication information is an employee of a big factory posted a message on the social platform, saying, "The year-end awards of big factories this year are a little rolled up", and also listed some year-end award plans of Netease, Xiaomi and Tencent.
The screenshot of its exposure shows that the year-end award of Netease’s "Harry Potter Magic Awakening" project team is as high as 888,888 yuan; Xiaomi, who made a profit of 78.06 billion in the third quarter, and the year-end award of the smart factory technology department will be paid for 8 months; Tencent’s League of Legends project team is even more amazing, with a year-end bonus of 1.2 million yuan per person in cash. On this basis, there will be a superposition of sunny days and stocks. ……
"Not so much," an employee of Tencent’s mobile game department told the Times Weekly reporter that the employee did not disclose the specific amount. Another employee close to the game department said, "Anyway, double-digit monthly salary, plus company stock and extra bonus of the department".
People close to Netease confirmed the year-end award of the Harry Potter project team on the Internet to the Times Weekly reporter. "It’s really true, but it’s not too much for one person to get 880,000 yuan for the game of 2.3 billion yuan in the first month."
Harry Potter Magic Awakening is one of the hottest games this year, which also makes the staff of the game project team stand at the top of the year-end award.
Everyone on the internet scolds the big factory, but in reality everyone wants to enter the factory. A large number of netizens shouted "envy", but some netizens pointed out that "the Internet is seriously polarized, and people who get high-paying year-end awards are hairy and horny." "Thanks for inviting me, I have just been laid off, so don’t try to trick me into entering the factory again."
A large factory employee who is not a game line told the Times Weekly reporter, "Last year, the year-end bonus was one Huawei per capita. This year, it was a self-heating hot pot plus two cultural shirts. The self-heating hot pot has not been sent yet. I don’t know if there is one, but I have got the cultural shirt. "
As early as half a month ago, many Internet companies were exposed to layoffs, and some employees were laid off before they got the year-end award; In the cold winter, some people voluntarily give up the 100,000-year-end bonus and change jobs to find a stable job.
From the outside world, Internet giants are experiencing a cold winter. And layoffs for the winter and the year-end bonus in full swing may be the real side of big factories.
In recent years, at the end of each year, many people have been screened by the year-end award of Dachang.
Time Weekly reporters sorted out public reports and found that the "2021 Momo Online Annual Meeting Guidelines" showed that at the end of last year, Momo’s formal employees each received a year-end bonus package, including the iPhone12 Pro Max 256G； with a market price of 10,099 yuan; Tencent distributed the "Sunshine Award" to employees who made special contributions: 100 shares of the company per person, which was equivalent to more than RMB 60,000 according to Tencent’s share price at that time; ByteDance gave each employee a New Year red envelope of 588-6888 yuan. ……
Earlier in the golden age of the Internet, Baidu CEO Li Yanhong announced at the company’s annual meeting in 2015 that some employees got a 50-month salary for the year-end award. In the same year, some employees of Ali revealed that they got 150,000 year-end bonus and 3,000 shares at the end of the year, which was equivalent to 100 months’ salary at that time.
In the context of downsizing, cost reduction and efficiency improvement of Internet giants this year, the year-end bonus of 1.2 million yuan and 888,888 yuan was concentrated on game projects.
"The game department is the’ spire’ of the year-end awards of major manufacturers in 2021. Revenue is the best in all businesses. Take Tencent as an example. If the game business earns one month, it will be enough for the PCG business group to lose one quarter. " Wang Tao from a first-line factory said. According to several employees of big factories, after consulting the comprehensive ranking of salary and prospect, some big factories default to a pyramid class: the top three layers are game/social platform, investment strategy department and cloud business.
It’s not just the game departments of big factories that are doing well. Feng Hao, an employee of a second-tier game company, told Time Weekly that the games developed by a project team of the company have a monthly flow of over 100 million yuan in South Korea, and the year-end award of the project team is 100 million yuan, which is divided by dozens of people in the group.
In Feng Hao’s view, it is normal for game companies to issue year-end bonuses of tens of months’ salary. "Many game companies not only have year-end awards, but also half-year awards. After all, millions of players have hundreds of people. "
It is understood that the year-end bonus of game company programmers is directly linked to the company’s profits. The most common ones can also get more than a dozen monthly salaries. When the business is closely related to the company’s profit, there will be a high bonus package, and the irreplaceable technology "Daniel" will also have stocks and options as year-end rewards.
"Now the mobile game market is seriously involved, and some games will last for one or two years. Of course, it will be more’ hard’ when the year-end awards are issued." Feng Hao believes that the high profit and high return of game research and development is the reason why it has become the "spire" of the year-end award.
Compared with the stunning year-end awards in the upstream, the temperature in the lower pyramid is much colder.
"The business of to C is getting worse and worse these days, and it is basically less than who loses. I no longer expect the number of year-end awards. " Looking at the business group with thousands of people sharply reduced, an employee of the content department of a big factory expressed his concern to the reporter of Time Weekly.
The employee revealed that the year-end award of his underlying business line is said to be between 0.8 and 4 monthly salaries. According to the average monthly salary of 20,000 yuan in this department, it is about 16,000-80,000 yuan. "The year-end award of the game business is almost ten times that of ours."
"The year-end awards of Internet manufacturers are very polarized, either really fragrant or miserable." Wang Tao told the Times Weekly reporter. He is at the bottom of the pyramid of the internet industry. There are many accidents in the group this year, and the year-end award is only 0.8 months of salary subsidy, which adds up to no more than 20,000.
According to the survey data issued by 36Kr United Kurun Data and Pulse, in 2020, the proportion of Internet practitioners who "have never had a year-end award" reached 8.49%, which is the highest compared with the financial, legal, biochemical and environmental materials industries. Secondly, 25.3% of Internet practitioners have a year-end bonus of more than 10,000 yuan, and 2.9% have a year-end bonus of more than 50,000 yuan. However, at the same time, there are 23.1% people who are lower than 1000 yuan’s year-end bonus, and the gap is very large.
"How to find a way to escape, the water temperature at the bottom is too cold." Since the year-end award won last year was at the bottom of the factory, Wang Tao had the idea of leaving. The data shows that 44.88% of the people in the workplace chose to "strike hard" and quit when the year-end bonus was not in place; Although 17.23% people will not leave their jobs on the spot, they will plant the seeds of dissatisfaction in their hearts and become one of the reasons for job-hopping.
The topic of "job-hopping at the end of the year" has recently rushed to the top of the hot list of workplace social platforms. Among the main reasons for choosing job-hopping at the end of the year, "I hope to get a raise" is the most important reason.
Feng Hao decided to put up with it again.
"The big environment is not ideal, and job-hopping needs to take a lot of risks at this time," Feng Hao said, at least until next spring. "Besides, not every company has a year-end bonus, so we should cherish our current job."
According to the "Investigation Report on White-collar Year-end Awards in 2020" released by Zhaopin, the average national white-collar year-end awards in 2020 is 7826 yuan. Only 29.2% of people have a year-end award of over 10,000 yuan. In other words, getting a year-end award of 10,000 yuan will defeat more than 70% of office workers in the country.
In addition to job-hopping at the end of the year, many people chose to "adjust their posts and climb the slope". Under the invisible class, most employees in large factories want to climb the first three floors of the pyramid through internal post adjustment. The middle-level leaders of Wang Tao’s department even gave up the year-end bonus of several hundred thousand yuan in the original department in order to change to a more promising department.
But is it safe to switch to the "spire"? How long can the year-end award of the big factory that is hot searched every year last? Wang Tao is not sure.
"We used to say that the Internet is to recruit 10 people, do 40 people’s work and pay 20 people’s wages. Now the dividend has gradually disappeared. " Wang Tao believes that it is rare to win the year-end award of 1.2 million in the Internet giant, and more factory workers are still struggling in the cold water at the bottom.
(At the request of the interviewee, Wang Tao and Feng Hao are pseudonyms.)
This article is from the WeChat WeChat official account "Time Weekly" (ID: TimeWeekly). Author: Guo Zihao, Shi Enze, published by 36Kr with authorization.