Recently, an explosive article "To Ali" appeared on Alibaba intranet. The article was written by a young Ali programmer, and his words were sharp and pointed to Ali's various problems. Once issued, it immediately triggered a heated discussion.

The original text is as follows:

In fact, I had the idea of writing this post a long time ago, but I didn't dare to stand at this point in time and finally exchange some thoughts with you about the company.

First of all, I think everyone is basically at the beginning of entering Ali, which is a bit embarrassing. No matter how we evaluate Ali when we arrive, I feel that when we are outside the besieged city, we have a little admiration for the company's scale, performance and huge volume. The company may be limited internationally, but it is definitely a super-class company on the domestic Internet.

So this caused my first confusion after I entered Ali. Why has such a big company been selling anxiety?

As for anxiety, I believe everyone in Ali has a deep understanding. After all, the 36 1 system itself creates anxiety.

Speaking of which, some high-P students may come out to make amends. Alas, our 36 1 is not to exploit students, but to make them grow better. Seriously, do you believe such a thing when you say it? If you work in P9 for one year and get 35 points-do you think the company is helping you grow or the company is stupid?

Immediately, I was confused for the second time in Ali. This is how I promote the real company every day. I have never seen a word of truth. I think it's funny. I don't know whether the management is too old or they are too lazy to think about it. Why can't we talk about these things openly and fairly, but we must talk about things that will help you grow and progress, and even send talents to society?

To put it simply, if you engage in 36 1, we don't object, and we can't object, can we? If you accept it, you will stay. If you don't accept it, find another job. Ok, I think everything is fine.

The company openly and blatantly said that we Ali are struggling and we are a very anxious company. Our goal is not to make employees comfortable, because comfort will make the company fall behind. Our ideal in Ali is to surpass Amazon and become the fifth largest economy in the world, creating 1 100 million jobs to support 2000 W people. That's ok, but can you take that employee out of the new six veins?

You may be curious, what's the difference? I lied to you and exploited you, and I exploited you directly. Aren't they all exploiting you? This is really very different. Perhaps most senior officials are post-7080 s, and they don't understand the post-90 s and the coming post-00 s. These people are young people who grew up in the wind of free culture, and we don't like what the official language looks like.

Let's say I'm a pulled donkey and you've been whipping me. I feel normal, and no one feels abnormal. Then I am a donkey and you are the master. I want to be lazy. You don't want me to be lazy, it's the nature of the donkey. It is natural for people to do things according to their nature. You give me food.

So you slapped me and forced me to work as a coolie. I think this is human nature and everyone can understand it, but the problem is, you can't slap me and ask me if I love you, right?

I believe that up to now, all the young people at the bottom of P6789 already know what I'm talking about, but I don't think they can understand it at the top, so I need to explain it again.

Twenty years ago, Ali just started. At that time, Ali was a serious startup. Ali faces the risks that all startups face. For example, he can't afford to pay his salary. I believe that when the company just started, this month and next month will definitely be counted. At that time, Ali, recruiting people, must recruit people who would follow me even if I didn't give you money for half a year.

That's what Teacher Ma said. It doesn't matter if you don't recognize Ma Yun, but you must recognize what Ma Yun wants to do, and you must recognize Alibaba.

But bosses, times have changed, the Qing Dynasty has perished, Ali has developed for 20 years, and China's economy has developed for 20 years. At that time, more than half of the people who worked for you did not have enough to eat.

Now, more than 80% of the people who work for you have raised their children alive. Now, if you ask a person, I will let you work in a company. This company is very good and the culture is awesome, which can cultivate your ability. However, if I don't give you money for half a year, do you think people will take care of you?

So 20 years ago, when you bought a donkey, you must make sure whether the donkey loves you or not, because you may not be able to give the donkey a stable meal. If the donkey doesn't love you and you can't feed the donkey, the donkey will probably run away.

But after 20 years, if you buy a donkey, you can support yourself. Donkeys in the market are all smart, and there are more markets. Just go where you feed. At this time, you will make a difference. You give the same rice and get the same whip. On the one hand, you force people to say that you love you, on the other hand, it is obvious that you don't love me and I don't love you. If you work, I will give you food. If you were a donkey, you would.

So I don't pretend to be true. I can't see where the company really is.

There are many topics that can be said at once. Let's start with the donkey. I compare Ali's employees to donkeys, and I believe that smart children will not blame me. I am embarrassed not to say that I am a dog. I will focus on explaining to some executives in blx who are arrogant or don't think they are donkeys.

I just want to say one thing. Donkeys don't have to recite their values. What advantages do you think Ali employees have over donkeys? Funnily enough, the second item of Ali's first value is called employee second, second only to customer first.

Teacher Ma said that the company wants to raise the salary of the bottom people, because they don't care if you raise the salary of the top five thousand. You give a salary increase of 5,000 yuan to the junior staff, and he is very happy that he can improve his family. I would like to ask Ali people, how many people's wages have increased by 5000?

Ali only gets a raise once a year, and everyone knows the extent of the adjustment. Even if you are 375, how much can you increase?

Ok salary adjustment policy Before we talked directly about salary, we didn't mention Ali's work pressure, work style and work intensity. What is the salary level of Ali people in the industry? At this time, it is estimated that many people began to want to mention the 375 equity incentive policy.

To tell the truth, isn't the equity given to you by 375 just to let you jump ship and talk about general contracting? Four years, tax cuts, and inflation. Do you think that's much?

If you still insist, well, it's a lot. After all, it's a huge sum in some people's eyes, then I'll tell you one more thing. There is a word in economics called opportunity cost. If it's the first time you've heard of it, you can take a closer look. If you have studied it deeply, you can calculate for yourself how much money Ali will give you.

You Ali people, you can look at this post Ali people, although Ali is not so good to people, but Ali's recruitment standards are high, which everyone knows.

Perhaps the only thing Ali can boast about in terms of talents now is that our recruitment standards are very high. Why do I say that? For ordinary people, their opportunity cost is very low, because it is difficult for them to do other things without going to work.

But for 9852 1 1 the elites of various industries who have returned with master's degrees, your opportunity cost is infinitely high. Have you ever thought that there are countless Huang Zheng, Cheng Wei and Wang Xing lurking around you and your brothers and sisters, and they have left Ali's circle?

Your own strength and resources far exceed those of your peers and even most of China. After all, you have eliminated a large number of graduate students, resumes and work experience since the college entrance examination, so you must waste ten years of precious time after graduation on writing PPT day after day?

What did Ali give the employees? Respect? Treatment? Welfare? I feel that it is easy to be blown up just by taking out an Ali. For a small-cap company, it is normal to be blown up.

Alibaba, a company known as the fifth largest economy in the world, has three companies with small market capitalization, which is normal. But for Alibaba, the company that claims to be the fifth largest economy in the world, one of the three can't be taken down. Isn't it sad and ridiculous or even immortal?

Is this the feeling of Ali people? I would like to ask Ali people with low P here, when was the last time you took annual leave for more than 10 days? What, you mean it's not important?

The year before last, I remember that not long after Mr. Ma retired, he ran back to the intranet to post, saying that he would save the elephant.

Funnily enough, the living space of elephants has been squeezed, and the conflict with humans has become more and more serious. With so many people and so many resources, Ali can do something.

Teacher Ma and Manager Ma, please take time out of your busy schedule to see your staff. Your employee's living space has also been squeezed, and the conflict with your ideal life is getting more and more serious. Ali has so many people and so many resources. Can you do something for your employees?

Teacher Ma's words, their nest, a group of people below, I remember giving ata a summary. It is estimated that the final realization needs some thinking. I was just thinking, if these ideas can be distributed to employees of Ali 13w, what would it be like? You always beat the richest man in China from time to time.

You go to save the elephant, I rely on the image of the mountain to be first-class. Maybe the company's share price can go up. Is it useful to us?

Elephants can't live, and my children can't go to the school district. Which is more important? Why do children of the same age get home half an hour earlier and go to bed half an hour earlier every day, while my child is born half an hour less than others? How comfortable do you think Ali's employees are, or how perfect Ali's care is in all aspects?

I still remember the first Dragon Boat Festival when I came to the company, and the canteen spontaneously distributed a zongzi to every classmate who went to eat. The company didn't say anything either. Ali is a big man, weighing 13w. It takes 100 yuan to give each person a shopping card, but what about the employees? That is the embodiment that the company can remember itself.

Even without a skill, I dare not start a business. I worked hard to make you a donkey on a millstone. I think I can say I love you at work. At least the company can remember me in the main department. Even sending a greeting card with Ali logo to employees is better than nothing, right?

Oh, the Dragon Boat Festival is not important either. Forget it.

Boys chasing a girl, girls always say that many things are small, but that doesn't mean you can not do it. You can only show that you are lazy and don't care about me. I hope the company's top management can really listen. In a company with 13w employees, the welfare system is naturally difficult to do, but it is not difficult. What do you want?

So in the final analysis, Ali is a giant baby who has not grown up to my level. In terms of volume, Alibaba is second to none in the domestic Internet. In terms of self-confidence, Alibaba has no self-confidence.

Of course, you can say, alas, the company can't be confident and anxious if it wants to develop, but is that why you keep instilling anxiety in the bottom employees? How serious is Ali's repeated wheel-building? Does this bring the competitiveness of a hundred flowers or the waste of manpower? What is the essence of this phenomenon?

Programmers can be said to be a very ordinary and extraordinary job, because every programmer has a little recognition of his career in his heart. What do you mean? Simply put, for programmers, overtime is actually not a big problem in essence. I believe that people who like programming will agree that sometimes writing the code they want is really a loss of time.

But the question is, under the destruction of 36 1 system, will you choose to write the code you like or the code that can bring you real money and silver rewards? Why do the regiments always like to make wheels repeatedly? In essence, the cost of innovation is too high, so everyone will try to choose the vested interests in front of them.

Speaking of this, Alibaba may be very wronged, because some of the problems I have mentioned are common problems of all Internet companies, but there is a saying that we are Alibaba and the scale of Ali cannot be small. The growth rate of Ali's annual financial report has also been striding forward on a very stable track.

Why should such a fast-growing and prosperous company be content with mediocrity and refuse to try to be the boss of that industry? Is it right for everyone to do this?

All internet companies are squeezing employees' anxiety about sales. Is this the reason why Ali can be the same as all the companies on the market?

Yes, I admit, if I put all this in other small companies with hundreds of people, I think: I won't have so many complaints, because small companies are small and don't need any sense of mission and responsibility in the industry. Mayflies in troubled times, it is good for others to do what they want, but don't you feel desperate when you put this sentence on Alibaba?

If the boss of an industry refuses to stand up and say something and do something, and still goes with the flow like other little brothers, where is the hope and future of this industry?

Alibaba should solve the business problems of 1 0 million small and medium-sized businesses all day and create10 million jobs. then what Similar slogans can only make Ali bigger. Can you make Ali better? Teacher Ma once said impassioned that we don't pursue greatness, we only pursue goodness, didn't we?

What is Ali's popularity in the recruitment market today? I believe everyone here, Ali, is deeply touched. Let's review ourselves. Is it the same feeling that Ali recruited people five years ago and now?

Five years ago, I believed that Ali was a good company, and I was willing to let others come to Ali to get full exercise and growth. Today, five years later, I ask myself, why should we let people in? Throw away that ridiculous recruitment KPI that everyone has to recite?

A little digression here, I think Alibaba really gives a realistic answer to the difference between economy and politics. No matter how big an economy is, the essence is still business behavior, and business is cost+income.

In business, this sentence is really a universal truth. I wonder how long Ali can last if he is a political body of 13w people. Of course, you can say that we are a commercial body, so please don't make any false slogan that employees are second. Who are you kidding? . .

Many people may think I'm angry, but frankly, what I have is not anger, but disappointment.

It is not easy for any company, enterprise or private enterprise to achieve today's achievements. It's not easy, it's not easy, it's very difficult In addition to the hard work and efforts of the founders and employees of this company, there are countless favorable conditions, favorable locations and indispensable people.

But in any case, Ali did it. Ali lived to be 20 years old completely and healthily. What he can know is that Ali may not live for the next 20 years. It is such a strong man with a height of 190 and a weight of 200 kg. Facing the dirty world, he chose silence, disregard and even obedience.

In essence, this choice is disdainful and sad. Ali has been selling anxiety and getting more and more anxious. However, let's put aside the scale that Ali now looks too big to fail. I want to ask all Ali people present here, especially Ali's high P, whether you want such a big useless aura or do something that will impress future generations.

It is true that Ali's annual net profit of tens of billions must have raised a lot of high P, but you are only a high P after all under such a halo. Who remembers the name of P 10P 1 1 several years later?

Ali is bound to face risks when he makes reforms, changes and challenges. Maybe one day the company will fall apart and die quietly, but does it matter?

Do you choose to die brilliantly like fireworks, or do you choose to crawl under the dark course of human history and be an imaginary dust? And it's really moved. If we change 36 1, change the company culture and change the company system, the company will inevitably close down?

Because Ali is living like a walking corpse today, the wind is getting tighter every day, and everyone wants a piece of the action instead of adding another fire. Does it make sense? This company is really good. Living is no more meaningful than dying.

Countless times when I was in Hangzhou headquarters, I looked at the brightly lit office building from 10: 00 to 1: 00 at night, just like a red-hot stove. Many Ali people are burning their youth and blood, trying to find their ideals in this complex country. However, the company's return to us is nothing more than fooling.

In this paper, I have talked about the treatment, salary adjustment, performance appraisal, employee welfare and other issues many times, because since I entered Ali, I have been trying to find evidence that the company attaches importance to employees. Admittedly, the treatment is very important, but for a company with real culture, passion, affection and sense of justice, the treatment is really not that important.

After all, people's spiritual needs are constantly developing, and food and clothing are only the most basic needs. But the problem is that a company whose culture has collapsed and its treatment has collapsed will only continue to discredit and consume Alibaba, a halo that once made people look envious and yearning. The aura needs constant maintenance, otherwise the great aura will eventually dim.

Finally, talk about me. Ali should also be my last professional experience in my life. Personally, I am grateful to be able to walk in Ali. Although the time is not long, I have to say that coming to Alibaba is very important for my personal growth.

I'm not quite like the Ali elite you see now. Not derogatory. I'm just a graduate of two ordinary colleges, and I didn't go to graduate school, so I really think Ali is really a big shot. Of course, Ali is only the common choice of many university masters, but for me, Ali is the place I have always wanted to come from the moment I graduated.

In fact, Ali taught me a lot. Thanks to the platform like Ali, I saw a lot and learned a lot in Ali, but how to put it, it's still the same sentence, opportunity cost.

Today's Ali is not the choice with the lowest opportunity cost, especially the working mode of 996. A high probability of exhausting people's youth is just an empty shell. Many times, many of your achievements are not yours, but platform. Aside from this platform, it is possible that you are doing the same thing for ten years.

Maybe the workplace is not suitable for me after all, but I dare to say this after I have experienced Ali. Well, the IT circle is just a few big companies. I think I really did my best. Of course I can go to a foreign company, but the moon of a foreign company should not be so far away. Working is actually working everywhere. I can only say that my personality is not suitable.

The purpose of saying this is to tell you one thing. Just because I spray Ali doesn't mean I deny Ali. Personally, I don't have much prejudice against Ali. I believe many people have always wanted to say these words. After all, everyone has a big family waiting for dinner. If it wasn't really this day, I would never dare.

How can I put it? Politicians speak mandarin and do face-saving projects because politics itself does not produce benefits, and political interests are incidental. Politics itself engages in power. To put it bluntly, it is obedient, and the biggest feature of power is uniqueness. In any circle, rights are unique, and two evenly matched rights cannot exist for a long time.

What does this mean? If you are engaged in economics, don't study politics. If you can't learn, you won't play, and the effect is very poor. The economy is diversified. For example, I am an employee of Ali, and I resigned. I can go to Tencent, but does politics allow you to play like this?

Did you leave one organization and join another? Because of the uniqueness of rights, rights play with people's hearts and dignity, so civil servants and state-owned enterprises can be flashy, but the economy does not have this feature. People can't cooperate if you play with flowers. . . What's more, the economy itself will directly produce benefits and needs to be done.

So in the end, I really can't help but want to vomit a sentence, what formalism juice will listen to songs, and stop here.

Green mountains do not change, and green waters often flow. Dear Ali heroes, acquaintance is fate. If you come, you will be safe. If you can't keep it, don't force yourself. Everyone can only live once. This time, there is no difference between good and bad, whether it is stable day after day or brilliant for a while.

I only hope that you can truly recognize your true colors and stick to your true colors. The mountain is high and the road is far. See you in the Jianghu!