ZTE poached talents from Blackberry and Motorola

According to foreign media reports on June 11, according to foreign media reports, ZTE plans to excavate more talent from its two competitors in the coming months in order to develop more high-end mobile phones and improve its market in the smart phone market. status.

According to people familiar with the matter, so far ZTE has hired fewer than 20 employees from BlackBerry, but it plans to dig more talent in the coming months. It is said that ZTE is also considering digging from Motorola. Google has already decided to sell Motorola for US$2.91 billion to Lenovo. The transaction is currently under way.

ZTE is pushing the smart phone market. It has claimed in the past few months that the company hopes to become bigger and stronger in the smartphone market, especially in the Chinese market. The company is prepared to spend a large amount of cash to realize this desire. In order to increase brand awareness and convince users that its products can rival competing products such as the iPhone 5S and Samsung GS5, ZTE has already doubled its marketing expenses in the United States alone.

ZTE said on Monday that it believes that companies must develop high-end smart phone products if they want to succeed. In fact, it said that its focus in the next two years will be on publishing high-end smart phones that can compete with products like the iPhone and GS5.

To achieve this goal, ZTE has already dug some famous executive talents from its competitors. It is reported that ZTE has created a special department. The only task of this department is to recruit talented engineers from Blackberry to help the company develop new products. According to media reports, ZTE also hired Cao Teng, Motorola’s mobile marketing executive.

ZTE intends to dig talents from competitors. This behavior is neither surprising nor common in the technology world. In the past few years, the details of the mutually exclusive agreements signed between several well-known technology companies, including Apple and Google, have gradually surfaced.

ZTE is the fourth largest mobile phone manufacturer in the world and it intends to expand its international market. Obviously, as long as you can recruit the talent you want, it doesn't care which corner you dug. Now, a talent war between ZTE and its competitors has begun.