A high ranked officer of Huawei who met me several times told me this time:"I will not be suprised if Huawei die tomorrow." The huge fat body , the long market battle line, have become the unprecedented challange for Huawei. Their organizating ability, the method to fullfill the request of international market, understanding to modern competitation, cannot keep up with their leader, Mr. Ren,zhenfei's request. Thousands of employees, directors of Huawei have lost their once great Huawei sprit. A kind of laziness, lackness of responsibility has spreaded among the employees of Huawei. I am thinking, today's Huawei, maybe considered a saving power of telecom industry in the world, but maybe because of this power, Huawei forgets to save herself.
From my point of view, Huawei faces below crises:

1)Unequlized support from government: As a private company, Huawei cannot get same support from government as the support for ZTE

2)Huawei is success in overseas market based on their price strategyt this further make their financial burden heavier. Those international rivals of Huawei are becoming stronger. The profit of Huawei from 2006 to 2008 came more from costdown but not sales.

3) In 3G domestic market, Huawei lost the leader position in TD-SCDMA market

4)The financial situation of Huawei has not improved for a long time. They have not enough methods to find new money.

So based on all these analyse, I think the coming global financial crisis will have more impacts on Huawei than their domestic rivals in China. The overseas market cannot save Huawei, only China's market can save Huawei. But How China save Huawei?

By Jacques Liu a Mainland Chinese now based in Japan.
Source: http://chinafiberoptics.blogspot.com/

Asking to be paid in USD @ Huawei? You dream ler unless you're some CCIE with more than 5 years experience...and willing to work OT all week long.

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Added on March 10, 2009, 11:55 pmYou might have missed out a very important part in the job application form. Right next to your full name, there's this column which ask you to write your name in chinese characters. The HR recruiter treats this very seriously.

This post has been edited by thechetticompany: Mar 10 2009, 11:55 PM