What happens when US president Donald Trump calls you a thief and call your company illegal? That is what Huawei has been going through.
To write this story, it took me hours of scrutinizing and verifying several reports and documentaries about Huawei City.
Welcome to trip where I take you inside Huawei!
Huawei is not doubt the biggest technology company in China and the second largest smartphone company, only second to Samsung.
It is the leading champion of 5G internet technology.
At Huawei hed offices, everything there is owned by Huawei, including a Five star restaurant! The restaurant has wine and the kind of music you hear at Sarova Stanley and Radisson Blu. If you have never entered any o fthose hotels I have mentioned, then refer to the music you see on soap operas.
Most of the work happens in Huawei Campus.
The campus is an extensive area that has even a train for interior transport. The transport carries staff and visitors within the campus. The campus has about 18,000 people directly working inside.
Inside Huawei, leisure is treated as important as any other profit making venture. In the photo above, workers are playing pool.
According to a post done by The Guardian, Jobs at Huawei are coveted. It is among China’s highest-paying companies for highly skilled workers and many of its employees have been educated overseas and at China’s top schools. The campus boasts fancy dining rooms and villas reserved for courting important clients, and there are subsidised full-course meals at a cathedral-like cafeteria. The campuses are subdivided into blocks, and each of them appears to operate with the sort of efficiency and loyalty that is part of its corporate DNA. Huawei’s founder, Ren Zhengfei, is a former People’s Liberation Army engineer who started the company in 1987 with three staff and the equivalent of £4,000. Last year it posted revenue of $100bn
For people working at Huawei, the are low cost houses, hotels and research centres. After lunch, the workers are expected to take a nap and the lights are reduced, just to facilitate the power nap.
Huawei is to China how Safaricom is to Kenya.