Weekend Long Read: How Huawei Picks and Develops Talent

How did Huawei, as one of China’s most well-known companies, come up with its strategy for hiring? The company’s founder summarized it as a focus on technical specialists and providing them with a fertile environment to develop.

“Our reserves are in talent, not dollars,” Ren Zhengfei, the founder of Huawei, told employees in July.

In the speech, the full text of which was published on the company’s internal online community in September, Ren laid out Huawei’s strategy for recruiting and evaluating its staff. His words showed that the company clearly favors technical specialists over managerial generalists, and encourages a transparent and tolerant company culture in which employees can criticize products and strategies internally.