Tech Giants: Starting from Bankrupt Companies

40: Chapter 40: A Single Spark Can Start a Prairie Fire, A Fertile Ground for TalentThe euphoria and clamor of breaking through a market capitalization of 250 billion did not last long within Spark Technology. Like a precisely programmed machine, the company quickly transformed this boiling energy into more forward-looking and strategic action after a brief period of excitement. Su Chen and his core team knew that market value was only a momentary evaluation given by the market, and what truly supported an enterprise in becoming great was a solid talent base and a never-ending source of innovation.

On the very first working day after the market value surpassed 250 billion, Spark Technology’s Human Resources Department, together with the Group Office, jointly released an announcement titled the **”Spark · Set Sail 2017” Large-scale Talent Recruitment Plan**. This announcement was like a heavy bomb, not only causing heated discussions within the company but also setting off a huge wave in the national job market.

The announcement opened with impactful data:

Spark Power (Battery Business): Building two new super factories, recruiting 12,000 employees nationwide, covering positions in advanced manufacturing, equipment operation and maintenance, quality management, logistics and supply chain, etc.

Xinghuo Chip (Manufacturing and Design): The Guancheng manufacturing base has entered the peak period of equipment installation, and the Shenzhen design center is accelerating its expansion. It plans to recruit 8,000 elites, including talent in cutting-edge fields such as chip design, process integration, equipment engineering, materials science, and software algorithms.

Spark Technology (Consumer Electronics and Headquarters Functions): To restart and expand the production lines for the ”spark 3” drone and ”Spirit Eye 2” camera, and to support the group’s increasingly large operational system, 5,000 positions are offered, involving comprehensive functions such as R&D, production, marketing, sales, finance, and legal.

**A total of over 25,000 job positions released!**

This means that the cumulative number of employees of the Spark Technology Group worldwide will break the **50,000 mark** in one fell swoop, officially joining the ranks of large-scale technology enterprises.

On the morning of the announcement, Spark Technology’s official recruitment website briefly crashed due to excessive traffic. Human Resources Director He Jing’s office phone was ringing off the hook, and her inbox was filled with cooperation inquiry emails from headhunters across the country and even overseas.

At a special recruitment fair held at the Shenzhen Talent Market, the scene was unprecedented. At six in the morning, a long queue winding for hundreds of meters had already formed outside the venue. Young job seekers, with faces full of expectation and urgency, tightly gripped their carefully prepared resumes.

”I studied materials chemistry, and I’ve dreamed of going to Spark Power’s R&D department!”

”I’ve been using their products since xinghuo no. 1. Thinking about participating in the manufacturing of spark 3 makes me excited!”

”I heard that the treatment and growth potential offered by Xinghuo Chip are top-notch, and they are working on a cause that truly breaks monopolies!”

A Spark HR manager in charge of on-site recruitment sighed to a colleague beside him: ”I’ve been in recruitment for over a decade, and I’ve never seen such a grand occasion. This isn’t just looking for a job; it’s more like... rushing towards a shared ideal.”

Launched simultaneously with the large-scale social recruitment was a more far-reaching ”Spark Scholars” Deep Integration Plan for Industry, University, and Research, looking ahead to the next ten years.

In the main auditorium of Spark Technology’s headquarters, a high-profile ”School-Enterprise Cooperation and ’Spark Scholars’ Plan Launch Ceremony” was being held. Sitting below were presidents, deans, and heads of top laboratories from dozens of domestic top 985/211 universities, including Tsinghua, Peking University, Zhejiang University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and Harbin Institute of Technology.

Su Chen personally attended and delivered a speech.