However, it was lucky that Boss Pei prepared enough time for them to answer all the questions so that people like Wu Bin who answered slowly had ample time. Wu Bin guessed that it might be a hint from Boss Pei for everyone to have enough time to explore the deep meaning behind the questions.
Wu Bin held the mouse with trembling hands and clicked the ‘submit’ button.
A line of words appeared on the screen: ‘Congratulations, you passed the test!’
“YES!”
Wu Bin almost shouted in excitement.
He passed! He finally obtained Boss Pei’s approval and officially became a member of Tengda!
Wu Bin could not describe this wonderful feeling. He felt his spirit sublimate after he finished the entire set of questions! He suddenly realized something at this moment. His work experience in Hengtu Games was all wrong! It was all a big mistake!
Of course, the mistake did not originate from him.
Hengtu Games was a wrong environment which was why he went off track. Tengda Games was far more successful than Hengtu Games so Tengda Games’ method must be more correct! Now, the Tengda Spirit compatibility test was using the Tengda Spirit compatibility test to reverse his originally incorrect working model!
Wu Bin returned to his workstation happily. The first thing he did was to open a document to record his realization.
Why does Boss Pei repeatedly mention not to allow employees to work overtime? Even if there is a need to work overtime, why is it strictly controlled and even given ample overtime pay?
Obviously, Boss Pei sees the tremendous damage to his employees’ creativity caused by overtime!
Other companies only see the short term benefits and saved costs by squeezing their employees. However, that would lead to a decrease in employee motivation, creativity, and efficiency in the long run.
Some companies force their employees to work twelve hours a day. However, the efficiency of the employees was reduced, and their work enthusiasm suffered. That was why the amount of work completed was about the same.
Tengda, however, forced their employees to complete these tasks within the eight hours a day. That is asking employees to improve their work efficiency and creativity. That was why they could complete the work that other companies could complete by working overtime!
Strictly controlling the amount of overtime and paying enough overtime fees are all about maintaining the enthusiasm of their employees as much as possible!
Therefore, the true meaning of the Tengda Spirit compatibility test is not to encourage employees to be slackers but to screen out those who work really hard! Is someone working twelve hours a day a really hard-working employee?
No! It’s the exact opposite in Tengda. Such employees would be those whose efficiency is low. They work overtime to show their leaders, not really because they are hard-working. That’s all just superficial work.
In Boss Pei’s point of view, completing tasks without working overtime means high work productivity. It means knowing how to combine work and rest, how to have work-life balance!
Only such employees can maintain a healthy body, active thinking, and unconstrained imagination. They would not be overwhelmed by long overtime, killing their morale, and distorting their imaginations. That is a true long-term vision! Therefore, the Tengda spirit is not simply working overtime or simply obeying what Boss Pei wants.
The Tengda spirit is to learn how to have a work-life balance. Not working overtime in order to maintain a healthy body and a good working condition to make one’s career path smoother, develop the company better, and achieve a win-win situation!
This test seems to encourage us to obey everything Boss Pei says on the surface, but that is obviously not the ultimate goal of Boss Pei.
Otherwise, he wouldn’t have created such a beat-around-the-bush way to come up with a set of test questions for everyone to guess.
You can only pass the test by understanding to this level. This meant that what Boss Pei wants is not a puppet who listens to him, but people who can truly understand his intentions, have good enough comprehension, and have a strong ability to think independently!
Boss Pei must have selected his talents according to this set of criteria which is why Tengda has gathered so many talents!
If they continue this interview process, the future of Tengda… the future would be limitless!
Wu Bin felt that his views of HR had been completely subverted. In the past, he saw HR as nothing more than hiring, negotiating pay, poaching people, and finding ways to kick old employees away.
However, Boss Pei had taught him a lesson.
Many companies regarded their employees as opponents. They did everything possible to squeeze their employees. As a result, employees had no enthusiasm for work. Once this ethos was formed, it would seriously affect the future development of the company.
In Tengda, the interests of the company and the employees were aligned. That was a harmonious, win-win relationship!
Wu Bin felt like he was completely enlightened. He decided to record his realization in whole.
He must apply the Tengda spirit to HR in the future. He mustn’t disappoint Boss Pei’s good intentions!
Tuesday…
Pei Qian was in the office, checking the results of the second Tengda Spirit compatibility test. A total of 12 people passed the test out of the 35 who took them.
The passing rate had increased significantly!
Pei Qian could not help but nod slightly. It seemed like everyone’s understanding of the Tengda spirit was progressing very quickly! However, there were also a dozen new recruits who failed twice in a row. If they still failed the Tengda Spirit compatibility test after their one-month internship, then he would only let them go with regrets. Pei Qian did not feel any pain towards losing these people. They were all diehard fans of overtime. Such people should not become Tengda’s employees!
He could only sit back and relax when he eliminated such dangers as soon as possible!
Li Yada updated two stable versions of GOG at her workstation. One was the regular version, the other was the version revised based on the opinions of Dream Realization Ventures.
The two versions finally seemed passable after such a long period of modification.
Balance was still a problem, but at least, it seemed like a test version of this serious game no longer looked like a crude semi-finished product.
The bugs were mostly fixed. These versions were basically stable.
Of course, there would definitely be more bugs if they updated it, but they would not need to worry in the short term.
Li Yada knew that she could rest assured at least for the five days that she wouldn’t be here.
She would be able to proceed to the next round of development after collecting the opinions of players during the five days she was gone.
Li Yada was about to shut down her computer when she realized that Hao Yun from the HR department sent him a document.
The title of the document was ‘Interpretation of the Tengda spirit (Speculated)’.
“En? What was this?”
Li Yada clicked open the file with some doubts.
Chapter 369 - What is the Tengda Spirit?
There were a few lines at the start.
“This document should be regarded with absolute secrecy and only be transmitted privately. It is forbidden to be posted onto the internal forum and on the net.
“Boss Pei hates dogma. The real Tengda spirit lies in Boss Pei’s heart. Boss Pei has the final authority to explain.
“This document is just a rough gauge of the Tengda spirit. It does not represent Boss Pei’s real views. Everyone, please maintain independent views about the content of the document. Distill your own understanding from it.”
The general meaning was as such:
This was not a standard teaching material, only a more superficial understanding. It was only for reference and should not be regarded as the only correct answer. It also did not represen
t Boss Pei’s true thinking.
It was best to comprehend the Tengda spirit by themselves.
Li Yada flipped the page and found that there was quite a bit of content to it.
She continued to read the main body of the document.
Tengda spirit number one: work with high efficiency, focus on innovation.
The first mission is to do your best not to work overtime to realize this first spirit. Not working overtime is one of Boss Pei’s most important principles.
However, many people only simply see it as concern for the employees, but they fail to realize the true meaning within.
Boss Pei hopes that everyone will be able to adapt to such high-pace work life through making a no-overtime mandatory. It is to continuously restrain oneself to increase one’s efficiency and to generate new ideas.
Find all ways to increase work efficiency through not working overtime and make this a good habit.
Tengda spirit number two: obey the leader and maintain independent thinking.
The next thing one had to do is to complete Boss Pei’s request at all costs. Boss Pei often asks for seemingly unreasonable requests. However, it is always proven after that there are deep meanings behind them.
One shall do all they can to complete Boss Pei’s requests even if one does not understand the true meaning behind it. That holds immense importance in understanding Boss Pei’s meaning.
There is a saying: read a book a hundred times and understand it differently every time. You will be able to understand it one day if you follow Boss Pei’s direction with gusto.
However, be careful. Boss Pei does not hope for all the employees to be blind sheep following him.
Boss Pei always puts out requests without explanation because he wants his employees to develop independent thinking.
Therefore, one has to maintain independent thinking to solve problems while carrying out Boss Pei’s requests. One shall not pin all hopes on Boss Pei, but to show one’s own independent ways so that one can share the burden with Boss Pei.
Tengda spirit number three: work-life balance, long-term goals. To realize this, it is important to enjoy company benefits to its fullest. Many employees are embarrassed to play games in the office, eat their snacks, drink their coffees, or to enjoy too much of the benefits in the company.
That is a totally wrong way of thinking!
The company provides these benefits and such a good working environment so that the employees can understand what work-life balance was.
Good health is a prerequisite for work. Many have experienced occupational damage once they reached mid-life. They will not be able to concentrate, and their bad work state will affect their efficiency.
Tengda views their employees as their fortune. It is a huge loss to the company if their employees fall sick.
Therefore, Boss Pei prepares so many benefits and provides such a good working environment all so that the employees can enjoy work-life balance. They will be able to take care of their bodies so that everyone will be able to continue working with Tengda 10, 20, or even 30 years later.
Everyone shall accept these benefits with a peace of mind and enjoy them.
Bury these feelings in the bottom of your heart and use a higher work enthusiasm and a more active working state to reciprocate to the company!
The Tengda spirit is broad and profound. This is just one aspect of it.
Knowing is easy, doing is difficult. I hope everyone can start with the simplest.
Do all you can to not work overtime.
Find all means to complete Boss Pei’s requests.
Enjoy the company benefits to the fullest.
Start with the simplest things, don’t let Boss Pei’s expectations down, and become a true part of Tengda!
Fully understand the Tengda spirit on these bases:
Work efficiently; focus on innovation…
Obey the leader, maintain independent
thinking…
Work-life balance, long-term goals!
Li Yada fell silent after reading this document. She suddenly felt guilty! It turned out that Boss Pei ordered us not to work overtime with such deep meaning?
Li Yada couldn’t help but feel a little ashamed that she had such a lack of understanding of the Tengda spirit even though he was the person-in-charge of the gaming department. She often worked overtime secretly as well. What a failure of a person-in-charge she was!
On the one hand, it reflected on the inefficiency of her work; on the other hand, it reflected her lack of understanding.
She had to work harder!
This document was really useful!
She replied hurriedly. “Thank you, this document is a great help! Is this something you came up with?”
Hao Yun replied immediately, “It wasn’t me, but one of the staff from our department who had just passed the Tengda spirit test.
“There’s no need to thank me. This is a return gift for the feedback given by that employee previously!
“The employee in our department hopes to guide the new employees in the other departments so that they could better understand the Tengda spirit and truly integrate into the big family of Tengda as soon as possible!
“However, this document should not be circulated. It should be kept as part of the company’s secrets. “I think that this document should only be stored on the person-in-charge’s computer and needed multiple-layer encryption.”
“Only those hardworking staff that we think are qualified to learn about the Tengda spirit should understand these contents!”
Li Yada suddenly understood. “Okay, I understand, thank you very much!”
Three people in the gaming department had passed in the first test, but there would definitely be more newcomers who have to go through the Tengda Spirit compatibility test. Such a document would be very important when the time came!
Hao Yun passed this document to the persons-in-charge of the other departments instead of sending it directly through the intranet. Obviously, she felt that this document was just a one-sided opinion and might not necessarily represent the opinions of Boss Pei.
Boss Pei might be enraged if rumors or misunderstandings were to arise or if someone were to interfere with the Tengda Spirit compatibility test.
Therefore, it should only be circulated within a small circle of people and shouldn’t be leaked to everyone.
Li Yada decided that she would show an employee this document to comprehend the Tengda spirit if that employee was about to be eliminated and she liked this person very much.
That was equivalent to having a good guide for those who were temporarily lost and was searching for a path.
In short, only key members could see and learn from this document. If these key members could form good practice in their work, they would naturally be able to guide the normal staff, allowing them to come together spontaneously.
Li Yada hid the document carefully into a hidden folder and encrypted it to prevent leakage.
Li Yada came to Boss Pei’ office when everything was ready. She knocked on the door and gave her schedule to Boss Pei, telling him that she would only be back on Monday and for him to contact her at any time if anything was required.
Pei Qian smiled. “Don’t worry, I won’t contact you. Have fun and a well-deserved rest. Don’t worry about anything at work.
“It’s getting late; get going!” Li Yada left the office with an illusion of being kicked out of the company inexplicably.
Pei Qian felt a lot more relaxed now that he saw Li Yada off.
He should be safe now since so many core members had gone abroad for play? He could rest well for one week now, right?
What a hard-won leisure time.
Pei Qian casually swiped the web and checked the latest news.
He searched for ‘IOI’ and ‘Finger Games Company’ as keywords into the website when he suddenly remembered something. There were only some very minor reports. Its popularity was very low, and there were ba
sically no players discussing it on forums.
Pei Qian changed the keyword search to English and searched again. He relied on his Level Four proficiency in English to search for a long time in the vast search results.
He still could not find what he wanted to find!
There were only a few pieces of information saying that IOI had been tested once, but there was not too much information about the results. They only used some more polite terms to describe it.
That meant to say that it didn’t seem like it was very popular.
Pei Qian could not help but feel bothered.
Strange, why isn’t there any news of it becoming a hit?
The game should have become rather popular in the United States after the official testing. It would then spread to the country and around the world in a short period of time according to Pei Qian’s memory.
In fact, a group of information website and opinion leaders among the players paid close attention to the game before LOL’s local service was opened.
Why was there no hustle at all?
It was normal that no one cared about it locally since it was still early.
What about overseas?
Finger Games raised so much money but had done nothing much so far? That efficiency was too low.
However, Pei Qian’s thoughts ran again. The timing of finance of the company was much later than Riot Games therefore. That game would take some time before it really caught up.
There would probably be similar news after waiting a bit?
Pei Qian decided to continue observing for a while.
Pei Qian checked the dates after switching off his computer. It was getting closer to the exam week.
It was about time to get notes from Old Ma.
Pei Qian had not gone to Dream Realization Ventures since Old Ma invested in IOI previously.
On the one hand, he did not want to recall sad memories; on the other, it was because Dream Realization Ventures had run out of money which was impossible to backstab him anymore.
However, he left his good brother alone during this period of time.
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