Huawei offers US$300,000 salaries to top tech talent in bid to stay ahead
- The Chinese telecoms giant plans to hire from 20 to 30 ‘top-notch’ recruits to reinforce its army of researchers
- The move comes as the company aims to cut more than 600 jobs at US subsidiary Futurewei Technologies
Huawei Technologies plans to lure gifted new recruits with “top-notch” salaries, as the world’s largest telecommunication equipment supplier moves to reinforce its army of researchers amid its struggles with a US trade ban.
Shenzhen-based Huawei will hire 20 to 30 top talents from around the world this year in a bid to build up its “combat capabilities”, according to a widely-circulated email on Tuesday that was signed by company founder and chief executive Ren Zhengfei.
That development comes as the privately held Chinese firm announced on the same day more than 600 job cuts at its US research and development subsidiary, Futurewei Technologies.
On its new recruitment drive, Huawei said the first batch of special hires would include eight fresh graduates with doctorate degrees, each of whom will receive an annual salary of between 896,000 yuan and 2.01 million yuan (US$130,000 and US$292,000), according to the email signed by Ren.
“Huawei needs to win the technology and commercial battles in the future,” Ren was quoted as saying in the email. He said recruiting “leading talent” to benefit the organisation requires “top-notch challenges and remuneration”.