Activity Review | "Into the Enterprise" Master's program of the School of Data Science, CUHK (Shenzhen) -- Tencent Headquarters

On December 4, 2024, the Master's Program of the School of Data Science (SDS) of the Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen) organized a special "Into the Enterprise" series of activities to visit the Shenzhen-based Internet technology giant Tencent (hereinafter referred to as "Tencent").

The students had a close understanding of Tencent's innovation achievements in many business fields such as games, cloud computing, and film, and felt Tencent's innovation strength as a technology company. The sharing of the campus recruitment manager in South China introduced Tencent's talent concept, recruitment process and development opportunities to help students understand their career development prospects after joining Tencent.

Through a comprehensive and multi-angle understanding of Tencent's development history, products, services and corporate culture, the visit helped students gain an in-depth insight into the latest trends and future trends of the Internet technology industry. Whether it is in the field of Internet application or cutting-edge technology, Tencent has always been at the forefront of the industry. In popular areas such as big data, cloud computing and artificial intelligence, Tencent has accumulated profound technical advantages and shown broad prospects for development, which is highly consistent with the talent training goals of data science majors. This visit not only helps students broaden their horizons, but also provides valuable inspiration and reference for their future career development.

Company Profile

Founded in 1998, Tencent is a world-leading technology company integrating communication and social, digital content, financial technology and enterprise services. Tencent has been adhering to the mission vision of "technology for good", its QQ, wechat and other products have not only changed the way people communicate, but also become the necessities of life for hundreds of millions of users. At the same time, Tencent has repeatedly achieved success in games, video, music and other fields, creating phenomenon products such as "King of Glory" and "Peace Elite". In the ToB business, Tencent Cloud and Tencent Advertising enable the digital transformation of all walks of life and help industrial upgrading.

Tencent has always been adhering to the purpose of technology for good. Its communications and social services connect more than 1 billion people around the world, helping them connect with friends and family and enjoy convenient travel, payments and entertainment. Improve the quality of life for people around the world with innovative products and services.

Tencent publishes a number of popular video games and other high-quality digital content, bringing rich interactive entertainment experiences to users around the world. Tencent also provides a range of enterprise services such as cloud computing, advertising, and fintech to support partners in achieving digital transformation and promoting business development.

Source: Enterprise official website

Activity Review

Then, we visited Tencent's innovation exhibition area in digital payments and small programs. The exhibition area presents the development of wechat Pay as a "Chinese payment" in a vivid way, as well as the remarkable achievements of the small program platform: by 2023, the monthly active users of small programs have exceeded 1.1 billion, and the number of developers has exceeded 5 million, reflecting its strong business ecosystem. The exhibition hall also features a simulated store scene, including several brand displays such as the official Louis Vuitton boutique, which vividly demonstrates how mini programs and digital payments can be seamlessly integrated into everyday life. The entire exhibition area uses modern display means such as light walls and interactive screens, so that visitors can intuitively feel Tencent's innovative achievements in digital transformation.

Next, the students visited the Tencent Game exhibition area, which was impressive with its immersive curved screen. The exhibition area shows the innovation of the game industry with a futuristic sense of technology and wasteland style scenes, and also sets up a VR experience area, so that visitors can personally feel the application of virtual reality technology in the game. The motion image showcases Tencent Games' achievements in technological breakthroughs and innovations, especially the new direction of game development under the concept of the meta-universe. The design of the entire exhibition area not only shows Tencent's technical strength in the field of games, but also reflects its development concept of "constantly breaking through the source of technical barriers".

Then, the students visited the Tencent digital Culture Industry exhibition area, which comprehensively displayed Tencent's diversified layout under the "technology + culture" strategy. Through the digital display wall, the exhibition area presents the fruitful results of the four sectors of film and television, literature, music and animation: 13 films in film and television have exceeded 1 billion yuan in box office, literary creation covers more than 200 countries and regions, music services have 1 billion users and the country's largest 200 million legitimate music library, and animation content has been released more than 10,000. Particularly eye-catching is its 3D three-dimensional display design, which builds each cultural plate into an interconnected digital cultural matrix in the form of multi-dimensional blocks, vividly interpreting Tencent's innovative concept of enabling the development of cultural industry with technology.

Next, we visited Tencent's innovation exhibition area in industrial digitalization, showing a number of cutting-edge technology applications, including the 5G remote control system for industrial vehicles, which has accumulated a total mileage of 958,100 kilometers, a total carrying capacity of 11.534 million tons, and successfully saved 5,776 tons of carbon emissions. The exhibition area also showcased industrial AI quality inspection equipment and Tencent Conference's TealAI Lab, which focuses on audio technology innovation and has made breakthroughs in noise reduction and sound quality optimization in particular. The most eye-catching is the naxed-eye 3D call experience area, which showcases Tencent's latest breakthroughs in remote communication technology and realizes the 3D video conferencing experience without wearing special equipment, reflecting Tencent's continuous innovation in the field of digital office.

After visiting the digital exhibition area, the students came to the Tencent public welfare exhibition area. The zone comprehensively showcases Tencent's achievements in sustainable social value innovation. Launched in 2015, 99 Public Welfare Day has grown into the world's largest public welfare day, with a total of 134,637 online fundraising projects, attracting 30,627 charitable organizations and 10,776 caring enterprises to participate, with 46 million fundraising visits and more than 710 million people participating. Particularly eye-catching is the display of the "Cultivator Revitalization Plan", which covers 1.68 million villages across the country, with the concept of "cultivating a person, driving a village", and has achieved remarkable results in demonstration sites such as Xiyang Hejiayan, fully reflecting Tencent's innovative practice of combining science and technology with public welfare to promote rural revitalization.

Finally, the students came to Tencent's patent wall exhibition area. With the theme of "user-oriented technology for good", Tencent's achievements in the field of technological innovation over the years are displayed here. It is particularly striking that Tencent's first patent authorization certificate designed by Tencent founder Ma Huateng, the patent for "single window multi-page browsing device" applied for on March 26, 2001, not only witnessed the starting point of Tencent, but also symbolized the company's development concept of always adhering to technological innovation to serve users. Today, the patent wall has been hung with thousands of patent certificates, demonstrating Tencent's unremitting efforts and outstanding achievements on the road of scientific and technological innovation.

After Ms. Elena's explanation, the students learned that Tencent has established a complete and systematic business project architecture. It includes the Technology Engineering Business Group (TEG), wechat Business Group (WXG), Interactive Entertainment Business Group (IEG), Platform and Content Business Group (PCG), Cloud and Smart Industry Business Group (CSIG), and Enterprise Development Business Group (CDG). This organizational structure not only clearly shows Tencent's business layout, but also provides a broad platform for talent development. Each business group has a special product and service system, forming a complete talent development ecology. In terms of functional line, the company has three functional systems - functional line, financial line and HR and management line to support the efficient operation of each business group.

Secondly, Tencent has designed a sound talent training mechanism, covering an all-round development path from new personnel to senior management. In terms of leadership training, it includes courses such as "Breeding dragon" and "Hidden Dragon" for grass-roots management cadres, and "Middle Cadre School" for middle managers. In terms of vocational training, the company provides a rich course system for different professional groups, including technical, product, design, marketing and other professional training, and promotes the improvement of employees' comprehensive ability through "Better Me" and other projects. For new employee training, the company has set up a complete induction training system, including pre-job training plan, social recruitment new employee training program and campus recruitment new closed training, etc., to ensure that new employees can quickly integrate into the company culture.

Finally, Ms. Elena emphasized that Tencent attaches special importance to campus recruitment and regards it as an important part of the company's core talent strategy. The company has launched the "Qingyun Plan", which plans to recruit more than 100 top technical talents from around the world every year, covering ten key technology areas such as large models, AI, big data, and security. In terms of the distribution of recruitment positions, technical positions accounted for the highest proportion, reaching 65%, followed by products accounting for 20%, design accounting for 5%, and market functions accounting for 10%. In 2024, Tencent plans to issue 5,000 + summer internship offers to help students understand the company's business and promote follow-up integration and growth through the closed-loop process of "internship - training - assessment - retention". In addition, the company has also established an open internal "living water" mechanism to support the reasonable flow of employees between different positions, providing more possibilities for talent development.

After the lecture, the students warmly surrounded Ms. Penshaw (Elena) and actively asked questions.

The students gained a lot from this visit. Through the exhibition hall visit, they had an in-depth understanding of Tencent's innovation achievements and technological breakthroughs in many fields. From digital payment to mini program ecology, from game research and development to digital culture industry, from industrial digitalization to public welfare, Tencent has always adhered to the concept of "science and technology for the good", and closely combined technological innovation with user value. What is particularly impressive is Tencent's exploration in cutting-edge areas such as VR technology and nakeye 3D calling, demonstrating the company's strong technical strength and innovative spirit.

In the campus recruitment promotion session, the students not only learned about Tencent's perfect talent training system and broad development platform, but also deeply felt the company's attention and tolerance to talents. Tencent's diversified training programs, open internal mobility mechanism and talent development programs such as "Qingyun Plan" all provide clear direction and incentives for students' future career development.

This visit not only deepened the students' understanding of the Internet technology industry, but also made them full of expectations and confidence in the future.

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