Chapter 1520 Changes

Google headquarters in Mountain View.

Feng Yiping took a special look and found that there were indeed no luxury cars added to the company's parking lot, but it was not without changes.

If you look carefully, you will know that among them, there are many fewer old cars, and correspondingly, there are many more new cars. Not only have they been replaced with the latest models, but their grades have also been somewhat improved, similar to replacing the original Corolla with the current Camry. , or replace the original Fit with the current CRV.

You all buy airplanes and don't let us exchange cars. We have money but we can't be willful and can only spend so restrainedly. I think those employees who chose to redeem some options must feel a little aggrieved.

I don't know if he is too subjective or if this is really the case. He always feels that every employee he sees along the way is in better condition than before.

To be honest, the employees' condition is better than before, which is not incomprehensible.

Wealth may not necessarily make a person mature, but it can easily make a person calm.

For these guys who love their current jobs, when they had only two thousand dollars in their pockets, they were definitely not as secure as when they have at least two million dollars in their pockets now. Once they are secure, they will naturally become calm.

Or, no matter how concerned you are about your own net worth, you must know that even when executives and ordinary employees are cashing out, your company's stocks are still going up beyond everyone's expectations and are still rising.

Although I don't want to know specifically how much the stock price has risen today and how much my net worth has risen as a result, it is undoubtedly a happy thing to know that my net worth has been growing every day since the listing.

When you are in a happy mood, your condition will naturally be better.

Therefore, the entire company, instead of becoming slack because many people have become millionaires or multi-millionaires, has become more active than before.

The most eye-catching thing is that there is still a long queue outside Mayer's office, and the sofas near her office are crowded with people interviewing her.

These product managers look at their watches from time to time to see what's going on in the office and how many people are in front of them, as if they are waiting for an interview.

From here, you can clearly see that Mayer is holding a report in her hand and is talking to a guy opposite. From her mouth that keeps opening and closing, you can tell that she has entered the climax again. The state of speaking speed.

Because she stipulates that each person who asks for instructions only has 5 minutes, so speaking at a high speed is her normal behavior at such times.

And this often leads to another consequence: it is difficult for those who ask her for advice on work to get a word in.

Those who did a good job, or whose suggestions were good, were fine, but those who had poor work results, or whose plans were unsatisfactory, more than one collapsed under her high-speed verbal exchanges.

This is a guy who is really different at work and outside of work. Of course, in this male-dominated world, sometimes, she may have to act tough.

However, as long as she faced Feng Yiping now, she would most likely be an exceptional woman, no longer a stubborn and strong woman.

But the result is the same. Her strong work style makes many colleagues avoid her, and her recent obsessiveness makes Feng Yiping avoid her too.

He walked quickly through her office, only hurriedly waving to those who were still waiting. Then he was surprised to find that among the people waiting in line to see Mayer, there was actually a vice president. He is still the vice president in charge of the search business, which seems a bit too much. This person's current status is higher than that of Mayer.

Looking at Mayer who was concentrating on discussing work with someone inside, he couldn't help but shake his head slightly. She really needed to review whether sometimes she was too tough.

Arriving at the door of Page's office, he was about to knock on the doorframe when he discovered that another powerful guy, the first employee hired by Page and Brin, helped actually build the Google search engine. Craig Silverstein, who has become a billionaire, is standing in the office and saying something excitedly to the two founders holding hands.

Page and Brin also looked solemn.

Feng Yiping hesitated and decided to wait for a while.

Brin, who was facing this way, had already seen him walking to the door and waved happily, "Hi, Feng,"

Hearing this, Page nodded towards him and pulled Craig to say a few words.

Greg seemed to have calmed down a bit, pursed his lips and nodded. When he passed by Feng Yiping, he even smiled and said, "Feng,"

"Craig, you have to pay attention to rest," Feng Yiping held his hand and patted him on the shoulder.

Like Page and others, he is also a graduate student majoring in computer science at Stanford. Although he did not have close contact with Page or Brin when he was in school, when he heard about the new Internet search algorithm invented by Page and others ( Later, Silverstein believed that the search technology of Page and Brin would have the potential to change the world, so he decided to join Google.

Therefore, he was originally planning to study for a doctorate, but he has not been able to get a doctorate from Stanford.

Of course, Stanford has produced so many Ph.D.s, but there are very few graduate students as outstanding as these three.

Although they are similar in age, Craig looks much older. The two are still in their prime, but even the muscles on his face look a bit flabby.

He must have been busy for a while, and his long hair looked a little greasy, making him look even more haggard.

In Feng Yiping's opinion, he should be more suitable to manage the short haircut that is popular in China. However, the more difficult it is for people to grow their hair, the more likely they are to want to keep their hair long.

"Oh, thank you, I'll keep an eye on it,"

"Why did you come here just now?" Brin hugged him. "Man, you have to see the modification process of our aircraft. Oh, but it seems that the modification will not be completed before we go to China."

"I'll charter a 747 for you," Feng Yiping said with a smile.

"Feng, do you think the company has changed a lot now?" Page did not greet Feng Yiping, but walked around the office with his hands on his hips, looking not in a good mood.

Is this because of the problem that Craig just reported?

"Of course, we have grown up now and are no longer a startup," Feng Yiping said.

"Yeah, we now have so many employees and so many products. It seems that we can't operate the company like before. It's time to change,"

Feng Yiping was really curious now as to what Craig had just reflected. "Are you okay," he asked.

"Nothing," Page shook her head, "Here, let me show you what we have been working on recently,"

"This is a difficult problem we have been overcoming recently. Speaking of it, its complexity is really not much simpler than our search engine,"

"But now we are not just the two of you. We now have so many outstanding engineer partners, don't we?" Feng Yiping said with a smile, looking at the code that filled the screen like a heavenly book.

"That is, so this system will definitely be put into use before the end of the year," Brin said.

"Okay, let me tell you, who of you are going to tell me what this complex system does?" Feng Yiping shook his head. He really couldn't understand what so many codes were doing.

"The simple answer is that once it is put into use, our users will only need to use our search, and the system will be able to figure out in milliseconds which ad should be displayed on his page," Page said.

"Precision advertising?" Feng Yiping blurted out.

In the morning, he was still talking to Zuckerberg about this issue. Now, it is a coincidence to see that Google has already prepared to implement this idea.

"Yes, that's what you mean. This system can use various obtained information and automatically correct the relationship between various elements. It will evaluate more than 1 million variables to select the most suitable advertisement from the advertising database. "

"You two are geniuses," Feng Yiping gave a thumbs up. "As a customer of Google, it seems that I have to ask Cummins to prepare and buy more keywords."

"Haha, I believe we will not disappoint you. Feng, come and take a look. We have another idea about advertising..."

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When I passed Mayer's office again, the people outside her door had disappeared. Also, if a person is given 5 minutes, it is estimated that some people will not take 5 minutes. Now that almost three hours have passed, it should be Can handle refreshing.

"Hello," he knocked on the door frame.

Mayer, who was working on the computer with his head down, looked up and his eyes immediately lit up, "Hi, come in quickly,"

"Very busy?" Feng Yiping asked.

"Of course you have time," she said with a smile, looked outside, stood up and took a document from the bookshelf behind her. In fact, she walked in a circle in front of Feng Yiping openly, " Does it look good?" She asked, holding the document, like a little girl in need of evaluation.

"It's beautiful and suits you very well," Feng Yiping said, looking at her clothes.

This person has always paid attention to dressing up, and even more so now. The clothes he is wearing are simple and clear, but have a dramatic style. At first glance, they look like high-end goods.

"Oscar de la Renta's new fall product, I cashed out part of my options. I originally wanted to cash out more, but after listening to what you said that day, I only cashed out a little bit,"

"Mayer, I just saw Jim waiting outside your door?" Feng Yiping did not continue to discuss this issue.

Jim was the vice president he saw just now.

"Yes, he has a product that needs to be upgraded and needs my signature," Mayer didn't think there was anything wrong with this.

"I want to say that having a plan is a good thing, but Mayer, can you make some changes in some of your methods? You see, if everyone wants to talk to you, they must first make an appointment on the spreadsheet you posted. time, and it must be in the afternoon,"

"Your work is in order, but have you considered whether other people's work will be affected in order to accommodate your time? Will they have to interrupt some important processes?"

"Although I have never asked you for work instructions, based on your personality, I can be sure that some projects that require your approval will not be easy to pass. Maybe two or three interviews with you are not enough."

"I think, overall, this approach is not very suitable for the status quo. You should be more flexible. At least executives like Jim, you should treat them differently,"

He didn't directly say that Jim was higher than her. She should be very sensitive to such words.

"If I flexibly accommodate them and treat each one differently, their work will not be affected, but what about me? Will my work be interrupted frequently?" Mayer said.

"You should allocate work reasonably so that subordinates can take on more responsibilities," Feng Yiping said sincerely.

"It's not necessary. As long as it's arranged according to my time, I can handle all these problems by myself. I usually make up for the delayed work of the few hours during the afternoon appointment in the evening."

Feng Yiping shook his head, "You are too strong, but Mayer, you have to understand that Google is not the start-up company it was a few years ago. We already have thousands of employees, and it is no longer the same company as before. When you rely on personal relationships to gain support from Page and others, you can get everyone to support you."

"Just to consider your future at Google, you should build good relationships with more people instead of letting them have big opinions on you, are you right? Of course, this is just my personal suggestion,"

Mayer was silent for a moment, wondering if he was remembering something from the past, "I only sleep four or five hours a day and have strict requirements on work. I don't think this is a problem,"

Seeing Feng Yiping getting up to leave, she quickly smiled and said, "Okay, I will seriously consider your suggestion. Do you care about me when you specially tell me this?"