"ByteDance Dating Agency", "Xiangtao Plan Dating Intranet Agency", "Big Factory Dating Post Agency Byte Alibaba"... On a certain second-hand trading platform, a secret business is rising——Paid distribution of dating posts on Dachang’s intranet.
A blind date opportunity for 188 yuan
If this secretive business is compared to a game, then "Send bytes” is the secret signal for entry.
After entering these four words on the second-hand trading platform, this big factory blind date game begins. Blue Whale reporter’s inquiry found that there are more than 30 related posts on the platform, selling the service of “delivering dating posts on the intranet of large factories”, with prices starting from40-188 yuanNo wait. A seller told the Blue Whale reporter that the majority of people who come to consult are girls. “There is quite a market for programmers from big manufacturers.”
The requirements for this type of service are generally similar. As long as the buyer provides his or her personal information and mate selection conditions, the seller can publish it on the relevant section of the intranet of a major Internet company. The seller will then provide feedback on the release situation in the form of screenshots or screen recordings. Among them, the intranet of large factories that appears most frequently is ByteDance’s “taro plan".
"Fragrant taro" is homophonic to "encounter", which means that you can harvest love as sweet as taro here.
According to ByteDance’s official introduction in 2020, the “Taro Project” is a dating and friend-seeking platform on ByteDance’s intranet. As a benefit provided to single students, company employees recommend reliable friends to the duty account. They will be released after review and approval. The first friend-seeking post was released in April 2019.
Blue Whale reporters asked many sellers and learned that most of them are employees of large factories or have a large number of employees of large factories. One of the sellers also sells quotas for intranet dating posts from many major companies such as ByteDance, Alibaba, Tencent, Meituan, JD.com, etc. He told the Blue Whale reporter that he has been working in a major company for almost ten years and has many resources from Internet companies.
In the end, the Blue Whale reporter chose Xiao Zhou, the moderately priced seller, and after paying the fee, he started his "big factory blind date journey." Although I wrote my self-introduction and spouse selection requirements according to the requirements in the post, I was asked by Xiao Zhou to revise them repeatedly. After all in Byte "OKR thinking"Everywhere.
"OKR is an objective management tool used by ByteDance. In the friend-seeking scenario of the 'Talo Project', the specific manifestation is to define the Objective and search for it with a sense of purpose." This is Byte's official suggestion for the use of the "Talo Project".
Xiao Zhou sent some other cases from the intranet, hoping that the reporter could modify the information to be more specific and clear. At the same time, he also said, "Although Byte's overall quality is high, it cannot be ruled out that there are some people with poor character among them. We must carefully identify them and protect ourselves first."
Blue Whale reporters asked employees of many major companies whether they knew about "paid intranet dating posts", and basically got a negative answer. It can be seen that this business is still secretive, but dangers are also brewing at the same time.
Lawyer Lian Runmin from Beijing Jingshi (Hangzhou) Law Firm told Blue Whale reporter,This behavior is one of the common manifestations of illegal bribery., if the improper earnings from posting do not reach the standard for the crime of job embezzlement (a total of 60,000 yuan) or the crime of illegal bribery (a total of 30,000 yuan), according to the provisions of the labor law and the company's rules and regulations, the employee can be required to return the improper earnings and be unilaterally dismissed.
On the night of payment, after four data modifications, the reporter's blind date post finally appeared in the "Taro Project" forum. The next morning, the first WeChat friend application with the note "Byte" appeared.
The price list of intranet dating posts, the “market value barometer” of major companies?
Although they are all "big manufacturers", the "prices" of different big manufacturers in the capital market and the dating market remain consistent, and they also have wonderful "interactions" with the real business world.
In a post about Alibaba, Didi and Byte at the same time, ByteDance quoted 160 yuan, Alibaba quoted 116 yuan, and Didi Chuxing quoted 96 yuan. At the same time, there is a line of prompt text below "Alibaba has split up and is now distributing posts from Alipay-related departments. "
At the end of March this year, Alibaba unveiled its "1+6+N" structure, which plans to split Alibaba into six major business groups.
The ByteDance dating post with the highest bid on the second-hand trading platform is also a reflection of Byte’s real business achievements.
Not long ago, according to a report by the Financial Associated Press citing The Information, ByteDance’s second-quarter revenue increased by more than 40%, reaching US$29 billion; revenue in the first half of the year was approximately US$54 billion. Tencent Holdings’ financial report shows that in the first half of this year, its revenue was approximately 299.2 billion yuan, or approximately US$41.3 billion. According to this exposure of revenue in the first half of the year, ByteDance’s revenue has exceeded that of Tencent Holdings.
During the period of rapid development of the Internet industry, the aura of "big factory employees" has radiated from employment to the marriage and love market.
At present, the most successful domestic dating platform "Ergou APP" originated from the dating forum of Tencent's internal employees. It focuses on independent dating of highly educated single young people. It requires verification of identity, academic qualifications and work before registration. This year's Alibaba Cloud Conference also saw an incident of "aunties holding up signs to recruit a son-in-law" that flooded the screen. Several aunties posted marriage notices that not only named programmer sons-in-law who were engaged in AIGC and large model-related work, but one aunt even asked for the programming language of the prospective son-in-law.
But at the same time, the "big factory employee" filter is also changing with the times, and has more "meanings".
Lisa, who has posted dating posts on intranets such as ByteDance and Alibaba, told Blue Whale reporters that when she was new to the industry, she thought people from big companies had "high wages and good prospects." It’s obvious, and people from big factories seem to have a ‘big factory smell’, and even different big factories have different ‘big factory smells’. For example, those who have been in contact with Alibaba feel very oppressive, and those who have been in contact with several Xiaohongshu can also feel some very Internet-style work logic, which is a bit ‘exquisite’...”
Like all dating apps, Dachang Neiwang’s dating community provides single Internet people with “opportunities to make friends.” However, at the same time, platforms based on online dating inevitably make “emotions” mostly visible for only three days. Even ByteDance, which is best at “guessing your likes”, cannot be a perfect “online moonlighter.”