QUOTE(rinin_farina @ Jul 17 2020, 11:50 AM)
it is definitely NOT normal for an MNC company to hire outsourced employee rather than having them as their own employee. They want to hire ppl to work with them but they don’t want to take risk of hiring which in other words putting all the risk on the employee. They are lucky that Malaysians are desperate to get a job and instead of appreciating their own employees, they take advantage of this situation. Furthermore, high turnover IS NOT the employee’s fault! It’s the company’s failure of retaining their own employees. Instead of improving their work env, they hire contract staff to solve this issue. As usual the govt is closing one eye since only the Chinaman is bringing money into the country.
normally a contract staff will be paid much much more higher than permanent staff because of the risk that they have to take into account when they cannot find a job after contract expires. Some cheapskate local companies usually hire contract staff and pay peanut salary since they cannot afford to pay based on market salary. ( sometimes its funny these cheapskate companies want to do bisnes but dun have money, then better don’t do bisnes at all ) . in Huawei, they somehow have their own meaning of “contract staff” where the salary is similar to “permanent staff”. Therefore the contract staff is underpaid and need to bear the risk of contract of not being renewed.
the concept of outsourced staff is similar to an experienced consultant who has its own company and provide professional services. the money earned is higher than contract staff ( in multiple folds ) due to higher risks because there will be a situation where the client ( Huawei ) wont make the payment due to certain reasons. So don’t be surprise when the outsourcing company hired by Huawei is taking AT LEAST 50% of the salary of outsourced staff. For example, the salary of outsourced staff is rm4k , actually Huawei is paying the outsourcing company at least rm8k or more. And the outsourced company’s job is just managing your HR related matters. What a simple business.
They hire a lot of contract and outsourced staffs so that they can easily terminate them later on. no wonder in jobstreet, there are always vacancies in Huawei. They have been recycling their employees every few years and retaining only the cream of the crops.
Besides that, permanent employees do EXIST in Huawei and it is offered to super talented, super-hardworking staff . If you are hardworking, for them, its nothing, they expect more than that.
Furthermore, it is ABSOLUTE NOT a bad impression to ask future colleagues for non related work questions. This is just a lame HR tactics so that they can gain advantage over the candidate. For anyone who is interested to join Huawei, make sure u get what u want during the job offer process. After u join, u are at the mercy of the company.
The ratio of outsourced employee vs direct staff (permanent or contract is another matter) is also seasonal. Outsourced employees usually are those with specific skill sets applicable for a certain project, project over they go their separate ways. Direct hire (again referring to permanent or contract) employees tend to have more wideranging skill sets that can enable them to cross support, for instance technical support, network planning/optimisation, project management, technical sales etc. Your right, MNCs especially those that are doing reasonably well like Huawei will tend to favour more direct staff actually, them giving contract instead of a permanent position could be a sign of the economic times.
And your other views about Huawei treatment of employees, as an outsider looking in I agree 100% haha. Not my cup of tea, but still certainly an excellent place for fresh graduates to learn thats for sure. Learn enough, boost your resume then bug out.
But with regards to outsource companies earning more than 50% I think that isnt necessarily true. Unless the industry has changed greatly, vendors have pressed the prices of such companies significantly. I worked for a western competitor for Huawei, every time its renewal I'm always pressing for a discount. And I roughly know the take home of the outsourced staff so, 50% is really too high. If there is such a margin, first thing I would do is ring up the ethics and compliance office to investigate the service procurement manager for graft. This is us, I would imagine Huawei is wayyyy more stingy.
This post has been edited by 9m2w: Jul 17 2020, 02:30 PM