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That's a stone's throw away, as Maryland is just north of Washington, D.C., and Bethesda is close to Washington, D.C., a distance of eight miles from the center of the city. From the hotel to the city by car in the early morning, to the Lockheed headquarters building, the whole journey is not even fifteen minutes.

The company has a large square building with a large parking lot in front of it, and when Alice is invited into the building by Oren, engineers can be seen everywhere. But when they saw Oren, they all greeted him very warmly, and glanced at Alice with a little surprise.

"Hey, Mr. Lockheed. ”

The Indian man at the front desk saw Oren and greeted him warmly, "You arrived early today." ”

Oren nodded: "Gather the guys in charge of the YF-22 project, and go to the B-2 conference room for a meeting in half an hour." ”

The receptionist first glanced at Alice, who was silent, and then Mali nodded, "Okay, Mr. Lockheed." ”

Seeing that the employee immediately lowered her head and called, Alice couldn't help but interject: "I said Oren, B-2 conference room?"

"Northrop Grumman. ”

Oren laughed and said, "That's right, Alice, the bid for the B-2 bomber was snatched away by this damn company, so now we have to fight for the development of the YF-22." If they had succeeded in two successive airplane projects, my father would have suffered a cerebral hemorrhage. ”

"Okay, I'll try my best......"

Laughing happily, Alice said, "Actually, I've only been to Washington once or twice, as Oren ushered her into an elevator." In general, it really deserves to be the political center of the country, Oren, and the building we just passed by belongs to the NSA?"

Oren, of course, knew which building Alice was referring to, and nodded: "Washington is so big, of course you can't expect to put all the institutions there." The CIA in Langley, the NSA in Fort Meade, and the FBI in Quantico, Virginia, were largely set up around Washington. ”

Alice snorted twice, but didn't say anything more.

After stepping out of the elevator, the two continued on their way, occasionally greeting Oron from a passing employee and giving Alice an extra look. Of course, Alice was also looking at her surroundings, and of course it all fell into Oren's eyes.

"This is also your first time in our company, how do you feel?"

"Very manly. ”

After a moment's thought, when Oren opened the door to the conference room for her, Alice said, "Probably because they are all male engineers? So, didn't you have any great designers to arrange it for you?"

To be reasonable, Oren wanted to make an evaluation of Alice on the atmosphere of the company, but who knew that this girl had picked a bunch of faults in the decoration.

"This ...... Decades old building......"

"It's been decades, but you haven't thought about the renovation at all?"

Saying this, Alice strolled through the empty conference room, looking at the snow-white cement wall around her, which was extremely simple: "We are not a government and public institution, don't we need to rely on hard and simple to satisfy the public's psychology?

As she spoke, she sneered and looked at Oren, who looked deflated.

To be reasonable, how can an arms company that develops military aircraft, missiles, and satellite communications focus on exquisite interior decoration!?

Fortunately, Alice has no plans to embarrass Oren anymore, otherwise, if she lays out the working conditions of those companies in Silicon Valley in the future, someone will have to be depressed to the point of home.

Then, it's time for a meeting.

With the phone call from the front desk staff, one of the employees rushed to the B-2 conference room non-stop, their average age is in their thirties, and the proportion is in their forties. Many of them wore uniform clothing with the Lockheed logo, reminiscent of IBM in all-staff blue overalls, and when the number was almost full, Alice also noticed that there were only two women in the entire number 30 designers.

Of course, just before all the staff arrived, all the employees who were seated also looked at Alice curiously, but seeing that Oren, who was sitting in the first place, had no intention of introducing, they were all obviously shy to press the doubts in their hearts, and just simply said hello to Oren.

However, someone broke the silence after all.

"Are you Alice-Wang?"

One of the only two female employees, when the last employee was about to sit down, she glanced at Alice casually, but was immediately stunned: "That Alice Wang?"

Alice chuckled, glanced at her badge, shook hands, and said, "Hello, Susan, if the Alice-Wang you are referring to is indeed the Alice-Wang you think of, then yes, I am the Alice-Wang you think of and refer to." ”

The girl's playful reply immediately broke the previous silence, and many male engineers who seemed to have been holding back for a long time laughed.

"Ahem. ”

Seeing that everyone had arrived, Oron interrupted Susan's next words: "Dear Susan, can you please close the door?"

Susan looked back, and she was the last to enter the room, and actually forgot to close the door: "Oh, I'm sorry, Mr. Lockheed. ”

When Susan returned to her seat, Oren nodded and said, "Well, I'm sure many of you here recognize that the person sitting next to me is none other than the founder of Cisco Systems in San Jose, a shareholder of Microsoft Corporation, a fifteen-year-old billionaire and genius programmer, Alice Wang." ”

With a silent chuckling expression, every engineer in the audience applauded, and Alice also stood up at the right time and bowed slightly to everyone.

It is worth mentioning that, after all, it is a meeting of more than 30 people, so the area of this B-2 conference room is not small, and the patchwork conference table is even longer than that. Alice sat first on Oren's right hand, and even if she stood up, it would take some effort to look at the person at the bottom.

"Alice is a very talented programmer, and I'm not exaggerating to say that she might be able to single-handedly take on everyone in our room. ”

Like a provocative and simple exaggerated rhetoric, Oren smiled: "So, I think everyone knows what the theme of this meeting is when they see the identities of their colleagues around them." That's right, Alice will be involved in the design and development of the YF-22 fighter with the title of technical advisor. ”

Although everyone could almost guess the reason, when Oron announced it himself, everyone still showed a surprised expression.

"Oren, you mean technical advisor?"

The badge clearly marked the name "Joseph", and a slightly bowed middle-aged engineer questioned, "Isn't it a direct position in the company?"

"Yes, Joseph, Alice is not an employee of our company. ”

Oren nodded: "I don't know how many of you have paid attention to the news in Silicon Valley, Microsoft's system was developed by Alice alone in a week. Related Reports......"

Oren paused slightly, as he had to stop his mouth first because of the exclamations that sounded in the room: "...... It's all directly accessible, and the press conference after Microsoft's IPO in March last year even had an impression of exposing IBM, right?"

"At that time. ”

In the corner of the table, a man wearing square-rimmed glasses said: "Miss Wang's programming ability has indeed been tested in practice. I have a friend who works in the financial industry, and his investment company bought a Cisco router. Miss Wang, the patent for this product is also yours, right?"

"Just call me Alice, Mr. O'Hara. ”

Seeing the other party's badge from a distance of seven meters, and then seeing O'Hara's surprise in a flash, Alice smiled: "In terms of work ability, please rest assured, as you said, nothing can compare to the practical test." At the moment, the most laborious part of the YF-22 project is programming the avionics system, and my level is as good as a computer will prove it, right?"

All of you here are technicians, and everyone can be said to be the top industry experts in a company like Lockheed to participate in such a project as the development of the YF-22. Seeing that Alice was about to speak with real skills, everyone suddenly felt a sense of bosom friend, but at the same time, many people looked unconvinced.

Every expression of everyone, of course, Alice has it in her eyes.

Fortunately, after all, he is already a little famous, and he is not an ordinary fame, those people are just a little unconvinced, not a mocking expression.

To this day, Alice feels quite lucky.

Because whether it is Microsoft, Cisco and Lockheed at this time, they are all typical technology-oriented companies, and they have always been prone to geniuses. People like programming masters can never judge the level by age, which is far from ordinary companies.

If I were in a company like Coca-Cola or Johnson & Johnson, I would have been laughed at a long time ago.

Oh, of course, in DreamWorks, in the entertainment industry, youth is the biggest capital.

Seeing that the atmosphere at the scene was relaxed, everyone had the intention of accepting Alice, and Oren was also relieved and said, "Okay, then Joseph, you can give a brief briefing to Alice first, first of all...... Tell her a little bit more about our aircraft. (To be continued.) )