One of the founding employees has resigned, and he once had porridge with Lei Jun to found Xiaomi.

One of the founding employees has resigned. He once had porridge with Lei Jun to found Xiaomi. Li Weixing, a member of Xiaomi’s founding team, has resigned. He was responsible for MIUI development in the early days and was later transferred to the technical committee. One of the founding employees left the company and founded Xiaomi over porridge with Lei Jun. One of the founding employees resigned and once had porridge with Lei Jun to found Xiaomi 1

According to Sina Technology, Li Weixing, a member of Xiaomi's founding team and former vice chairman and secretary-general of Xiaomi's technical committee, resigned. It is understood that Li Weixing is Xiaomi's employee No. 12. On April 6, 2010, the day Xiaomi was founded, Li Weixing was among the 13 people who drank millet porridge with Lei Jun. He was responsible for MIUI development in the early days and was later transferred to the technical committee.

Currently, Li Weixing has left Xiaomi, and the specific reason for his departure is unknown.

Among the 13 people who drank millet porridge at that time, in addition to the four co-founders Lei Jun, Lin Bin, Li Wanqiang and Huang Jiangji, there were also Li Weixing, Sun Peng, Fan Dian, Liu Xinyu, Wang Haizhou, Li Ming and Qu Heng. , Qin Zhifan and Guan Yingzhi are the 9 founding team members.

Of these 13 people, 4 are co-founders and the other 9 are founding team members. Li Weixing was responsible for the development of MIUI for Xiaomi mobile phones in the early days, and was later transferred to the technical committee. At present, it is reported on the Internet that Li Weixing has left Xiaomi. The specific reason for his departure is unknown, and Xiaomi officials have not yet given a corresponding response. It is worth noting that as Xiaomi goes on the market and enters a new stage of development, the number of founding team members who drank millet porridge with Lei Jun is decreasing. The previous high-profile mass layoffs of Xiaomi may also be related to the resignation of founding employees. As the saying goes, it is easy to conquer a country but difficult to defend it.

Previously, there were rumors that Xiaomi planned to lay off 10% of its employees, and HR has already started interviews. Prior to this rumor, Xiaomi employees had already complained online about the news that the company's year-end assessment would force performance into a C ratio, setting it at a mandatory 10%.

In response, Xiaomi said that there have been no layoffs since its founding, and that Xiaomi currently has more than 4,000 popular positions that are still recruiting talents. Xiaomi welcomes outstanding talents to join.

Not only that, Xiaomi’s old employees who had resigned recently received text messages saying that Xiaomi’s door is always open and they are welcome to join Xiaomi again and work hard together. One of the founding employees resigned. He once drank porridge with Lei Jun and founded Xiaomi 2

Li Weixing, a member of Xiaomi's founding team and former vice chairman and secretary-general of Xiaomi's technical committee, resigned.

Li Weixing is Xiaomi’s employee No. 12. On the day Xiaomi was founded on April 6, 2010, Li Weixing was among the 13 people who drank millet porridge with Lei Jun. He was responsible for MIUI development in the early days and was later transferred to the technical committee.

Of these 13 people, 4 are co-founders and the other 9 are founding team members. Li Weixing is the first of the nine people to leave, and the other eight are still on the job.

In addition, Xiaomi is currently involved in a layoff crisis. There is news on Maimai that Xiaomi plans to lay off 10% of its employees. An internal employee revealed to Sina Technology that Xiaomi has forced 10% of employees in all departments to have a C performance rating in the 2021 performance rating. If the performance is C twice, they will be dismissed.

In response to rumors of layoffs, Xiaomi denied it to the media, saying that there have been no layoffs since the company was founded and it is still recruiting talents.

From the core to the periphery and then to the virtual position?

The story of starting a business and drinking millet porridge has always been talked about by Lei Jun.

On April 6, 2010, Lei Jun and 12 founding employees drank a bowl of millet porridge together at Baofu Temple Bridge Silver Valley Building, and Xiaomi Company was officially established.

In the group photo of the above-mentioned founding team members, there are co-founders such as Lin Bin, Li Wanqiang and Huang Jiangji, as well as early start-up employees such as Li Weixing and Sun Peng.

After graduating from Zhongshan University as a graduate student, Li Weixing worked at Microsoft for several years, engaged in Windows Phone software development. Joining Xiaomi was also recommended by Lin Bin, his leader at Microsoft. After meeting and chatting with Lei Jun, he decided to follow Lei Jun and cut his salary to start a business.

Li Weixing was a core technical member of Xiaomi’s early MIUI system development and was later promoted to Vice President of MIUI. Its relatively formal move to the forefront came during Xiaomi's first structural adjustment after its listing.

In September 2018, Lei Jun announced Xiaomi’s organizational structure adjustments and personnel appointments in an internal email. This is Xiaomi’s first major adjustment since its listing and the biggest organizational structure change since its establishment.

This structural adjustment involves many co-founders and middle and senior management. On the one hand, the Group Staff Department and the Group Organization Department were newly established to further strengthen the management functions of the headquarters; on the other hand, four business departments including the TV Department, Ecological Chain Department, MIUI Department and Interactive Entertainment Department were reorganized into ten new business departments. A large number of young executives born in the 1980s came to the front.

Li Weixing is one of the young executives who were promoted.

At that time, Xiaomi established four Internet business departments. Among them, the Internet department was responsible for the core experience of MIUI. Li Weixing served as the general manager and reported directly to CEO Lei Jun.

However, since then, Xiaomi has made many adjustments to the structure of its Internet business department, and Li Weixing has gradually faded out of MIUI’s core management.

In February 2019, Li Weixing was appointed as the general manager of the fourth Internet Department, mainly responsible for the TV version of MIUI. The general manager of the Internet Department is Jin Fan, and both of them report to the CEO; in December 2020, Xiaomi integrated multiple independent Internet business departments and established three new software and experience departments, Internet business departments, and business middle offices. The first-level departments are headed by Jin Fan, Ma Ji, and Qiu Ruiheng as department general managers, reporting directly to CEO Lei Jun; in the structural adjustment in November 2021, the Software and Experience Department and the Mobile Phone Department System Software Department were merged into the Mobile Phone Software Department , the IoT platform department was merged into the mobile phone software department, and Jin Fan served as the general manager of the mobile phone software department.

After the major integration of the MIUI Internet business department in 2020, Li Weixing was transferred to the Technical Committee, serving as the Vice Chairman and Secretary-General of the Technical Committee, and became the Chairman of the Technical Committee (first Cui Baoqiu, now Ye Hangjun) report.

Currently, Li Weixing has left Xiaomi, and the specific reason for his departure is unknown. A Xiaomi employee commented, "The vice chairman of the technical committee is a bit of a false position, but as a founding team member, he must have already achieved financial freedom." ’

Li Weixing’s personal Weibo used to be very active in communicating with users when he was in charge of MIUI, but it stopped updating in early 2020. On the ninth anniversary of Xiaomi's founding in April 2019, he also posted a Weibo lament: 'When I joined Xiaomi, I really didn't expect that Xiaomi would have to overcome so many difficulties. I didn't expect that Xiaomi would have such a huge impact, and I didn't expect that I would Will last this long. ’

It is worth noting that as Xiaomi goes on the market and enters a new stage of development, the number of founding team members who drank millet porridge with Lei Jun is decreasing. Among the 13 people who drank millet porridge at that time, in addition to the four co-founders Lei Jun, Lin Bin, Li Wanqiang and Huang Jiangji, there were also Li Weixing, Sun Peng, Fan Dian, Liu Xinyu, Wang Haizhou, Li Ming, Qu Heng, Qin Zhifan and Guan Yingzhi. 9 founding team members.

Among them, co-founder Huang Jiangji (employee No. 4) resigned in 2018, and co-founder Li Wanqiang (employee No. 3) resigned in 2019; among the nine founding team members, Li Weixing was the first to leave Xiaomi. , the other 8 are still working in various positions at Xiaomi.

10% of employees were forced to give C?

In fact, Li Weixing’s resignation also coincides with a major adjustment of multiple business departments of Xiaomi.

In November 2021, Xiaomi announced internally that its independent e-commerce platform Xiaomi Youpin will be integrated with Xiaomi’s retail business in China. Xiaomi said that after being merged into China, Xiaomi Youpin and Xiaomi Mall will continue to serve different consumer groups respectively, and their business form and audience will not change.

But after the merger, changes occurred. In January this year, Youpin Youyu, a subsidiary of Xiaomi Youpin, announced that Youpin Youyu would cease operations in March due to business adjustments. In addition to Xiaomi Youpin and Xiaomi Mall, multiple business units of Xiaomi will be integrated at the end of 2021.

An internal Xiaomi employee told Sina Technology that he had heard internal news about layoffs at the end of 2021. ‘After integration, the overlap of some functional personnel and the adjustment of business direction are inevitable. ’

According to Sina Technology, Xiaomi’s performance is divided into four levels: S, A, B, and C. The employee revealed that during the performance evaluation before the Spring Festival, the company notified all departments that 10% of employees must have a C performance rating. If their performance is C twice, they will be dismissed. Another difference from previous years is that employees who have resigned or are about to resign can be asked to memorize performance C, but this time it is no longer allowed.

In addition to the reasons for internal integration, another Xiaomi employee believes that in the current Internet environment, it is easy to understand even if Xiaomi does layoffs. In an internal meeting before the Spring Festival, some senior officials predicted that the company would be "prepared for winter" in 2022. The executive said that Xiaomi is facing external pressures such as geopolitics, policy supervision, and industry competition. At the same time, it is also facing uncertainty in the development of its main business and new businesses.

The so-called main business is Xiaomi’s mobile phone business. Xiaomi is currently vigorously promoting the high-end of its mobile phones. Lei Jun has proposed the goal of benchmarking Apple, becoming the first in the world in three years and the first in domestic high-end products in three years. However, the above-mentioned employees believe that there is still a big gap between Xiaomi and Apple in the high-end market.

According to IDC data, in the global smartphone market in 2021, Xiaomi ranked third with a market share of 14.1%, and Apple ranked second with 17.4%. However, Apple performed well in the fourth quarter. Ranking first in market share; judging from the domestic situation, Apple ranked first with a market share of 20.6% in the fourth quarter of 2021, and Xiaomi was fifth.

In terms of new business, mainly the Xiaomi automobile business that will be launched in 2021, Lei Jun has set a mass production target in 2024. Xiaomi employees revealed to Sina Technology that they originally thought that Xiaomi cars would make extensive use of Xiaomi’s existing technology, but in fact they did not. For example, for smart voice systems in cars, Xiaomi already has its own Xiaoai, and the automotive department is also developing its own products. ‘In internal competition, whoever does well will use it. ’

It is worth noting that Xiaomi’s automotive business is currently in its infancy and investment period, and is directly and wholly owned by Xiaomi. This will undoubtedly put pressure on Xiaomi’s financial data. Employees speculate that Xiaomi's automotive business may develop independently in the future due to factors such as product development and financial data. One of the founding employees resigned and once had porridge with Lei Jun to create Xiaomi 3

Xiaomi was established on April 6, 2010. In just 12 years, its digital products have become popular in China and even around the world. It is very popular inside and has become the "most warm-hearted Internet company" in the hearts of rice fans. Although Xiaomi's business is booming, some problems will inevitably arise. On February 16, CNMO learned that Li Weixing, a member of Xiaomi’s founding team and former vice chairman and secretary-general of Xiaomi’s technical committee, resigned.

It is reported that Li Weixing is the 12th employee of Xiaomi. He was responsible for the development of MIUI in the early days and was later transferred to the technical committee. When Xiaomi was established, he drank millet porridge with Lei Jun, which can be regarded as " The friendship between millet and porridge". When Xiaomi was founded, there were 13 people who drank millet porridge with Lei Jun, 4 co-founders and 9 founding team members. Li Weixing was the first person to leave the founding team.

Before it was reported in the industry that Li Weixing had resigned, Xiaomi had been involved in a layoff crisis. Not long ago, there were rumors that Xiaomi planned to lay off 10% of its employees, and HR has begun interviews.

In response to this, Xiaomi responded to the media and stated that Xiaomi has not had any layoffs so far, and that Xiaomi currently has more than 4,000 popular positions and is still recruiting talents.