After a week and nearly 50 games from New Ventures, Mark Cerney decided to join New Ventures, but not in North America, because, as a former Atari employee, he knew that New Ventures' North American branches were not known for R&D, and the products it sold were basically the results of the head office in Asia. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

The headquarters in Hong Kong is where the miracle of the new start-up electronics company is born.

That's why Mark Cerney had the idea to visit Hong Kong. If Lin Qi knew that Mark Cerney would be coming, he would definitely be more happy than making an extra profit of 100 million dollars.

"He's the most Da Vinci guy in the entire gaming industry...... He is fluent in Japanese and knows the Japanese game market best among Western game producers...... His games have sold more than $2 billion to date, and 12 of his products have sold more than two million copies!" was later praised by industry pundits for Mark Serney.

In fact, Mark Cerney has not yet shined, and the real show of his strength is that he joined Sega Japan in 85 years and participated in the production of the Sega platform blockbuster "Sonic 2", and returned to the United States in the 90s to establish the famous Crystal Dynamics Studios. Later, he became a partner of Sony, and was deeply involved in the development of Sony's game console hardware, and the title of developer of the PS4 console made its reputation reach the top of the industry.

In fact, before the PS4, Mark Cerney was already the leader of ICE Team, providing Sony with cutting-edge technology. But it wasn't until PS4 that it was a temporary worker to develop the PS4, a super popular console for Sony. Sony has given him close to the highest level of access to various product development plans, but he is not a full-time Sony employee.

"For a lot of reasons, the members of the ICE Team aren't allowed to show up or even be interviewed, but we're not a mystery, and the name of the group comes from the name of a game scene tool I made in '83...... That's right, we had all the technical details in place two years before the PS3 was released, even a few months before the technical team at SCEJ (Sony Japan). This was revealed by Mark Cerney in an interview later when he talked about the mysterious ICE Team.

Moreover, Mark Cerney is not only a technical talent, but also a great talent in management, just when he was a small company with only a single digit staff in Naughty Dog and Insomniac Games, he persuaded Sony's Universal Interactive to buy these two companies at a high price, which later proved that both companies have developed into well-known game companies in the industry, and even on an equal footing with Mark Cerney's ICE Team, you can know that there are more professional people for the potential of talents in the game industry.

Deciding to go to Hong Kong, Mark Cerney was not so anxious, but went to Chinatown to find a Chinese teacher for a three-hour daily Chinese training course. Learning a foreign language from scratch is one of the most difficult Chinese predictions in the world, but Mark Cerney is indeed intellectually superior to ordinary people, and he has quickly begun to improve, not only learning some Chinese common words, but also mastering the key to self-study.

So much so that when he arrived in Hong Kong to apply for a job, the interviewer of the new start-up electronics company thought that he had studied Chinese for many years.

Of course, the new start-up electronics company does not look the other way because it is a high-talent graduate of a prestigious American university and a job at Atari. Applicants must also apply in accordance with the Basic Law, and new start-up electronics companies will launch a large-scale recruitment campaign every year after the graduation season of students, first requiring them to pass a professional written examination that is much more difficult than the civil service examination, and then a more critical interview.

But it doesn't mean that you don't usually recruit people, and it will be more difficult to recruit people at ordinary times. First of all, whether the post should be recruited, in the case of recruitment, first according to the professionalism of the position, a test paper is temporarily transferred from the computer system, and the questions are random. After that, an interview will be arranged according to the answers.

Mark Cerney is a game developer, so the questions given in the question bank are all professional topics in the computer industry and the game industry. Considering that his native language is English, the questions called up in the question bank are all written in English.

This is also a characteristic of the gradual internationalization of new start-up electronics companies, and the entire company recruitment is first required to pass a written examination. The content of the written test is divided into different positions and majors, and according to different native languages, there are at least 300,000 questions stored in the server.

The Unified Recruitment Examination is a little better.

Temporary application is based on the information filled in by the applicant, such as nationality, native language, education, major, interest, specialty and occupation, etc., and the mainframe computer selects a test paper that can comprehensively assess his ability. Although the test paper does not represent all of its ability, it can't even pass the test paper, which naturally shows that its ability to boast about itself is watery.

"The total score is 120 points, and you got a perfect score!"

"Yes!"

"The topic is beyond your area of expertise. Born in a prestigious school, the major is very good, and it can generally reach 100 points, which is a normal performance. ”

"Yes, but there are always some people, more than ordinary people. ”

"Your major is very solid at the moment, and your resume is very good. However, I need to emphasize that creativity and direction come first. We have a lot of good computer talents, but most of them are not the most important talents, because ...... They only have skills, not creativity. It's just a soldier on a mission, but it's not a commander. ”

"I joined your company by studying to be a commander-in-chief. I hope that one day, I can make games that surpass the likes of "Chinese Cube", "Breaking the Sky", and "The Legend of Sword and Fairy". ”

"Well, the ambition is commendable, but as a newcomer, if you join, the most low-grade monthly salary of 3,000 Hong Kong dollars is currently acceptable?"

"No problem, I understand that the price level in Hong Kong is much lower than in the United States, and this kind of income is already able to survive. ”

"Okay, if it's okay, go through the onboarding procedures now, you have half a month to adapt. After that, depending on your performance, you may be assigned some R&D positions. ”

"Thank you!"

From the United States to Hong Kong, the monthly salary has been reduced from about HK$15,000 to HK$3,000, and Mark Cerney has no regrets. Because, he knows that the new venture electronics company is full of talents, and he needs to learn a lot of things, and the salary of the new venture electronics company has risen very quickly, and if the regular employees are not incapable, they can rise to a monthly salary of 20,000 Hong Kong dollars within two years, but the monthly salary is capped so far. The rest is the project's dividends and equity incentives.

At present, the headquarters has more than 2,000 people, and R&D personnel account for three-quarters. Except for the fact that he has not been involved in any projects for a long time, most of his income is far more than that of Atari employees.

Knowing the internal workings of the company, Marc Cerney is confident about the future.