The next morning, Xie Yunfan called Liu Muyao, Ling Xiao, Ning Sha, Chu Yue, and the others into the office on the 21st floor to discuss the final candidates to be hired from the interviews.

On the large screen in the office, holographic video recordings of yesterday’s interview process could be played in real-time. If they wanted to see someone’s performance, they could directly cut to that person’s camera angle, which was very convenient.

Pointing at the roster on the large screen, Xie Yunfan said: “Let’s look at the finance group first. Ling Xiao, do you have a candidate that matches your heart’s desire?”

Ling Xiao circled a few names and said: “The top two have several years of finance department work experience, and their interview performances were also very good. There are no doubts about them. For the third place, Zhou Kai and Qin Yutong tied in their scores. One man and one woman, hiring either is fine. Boss, what do you think?”

Xie Yunfan thought for a moment and said: “I lean towards Qin Yutong. Although she is a fresh graduate, her grades during university were outstanding, and she won many scholarships. The person is also sharp; if you guide her a little, she should be able to adapt very quickly.”

Ling Xiao nodded and said: “Okay, then we’ll choose Qin Yutong.”

Xie Yunfan: “The HR department will also hire three people. Muyao, can you give some opinions?”

Liu Muyao said: “Let’s directly hire the top three based on the interview scores. These three are all very good.”

Xie Yunfan: “Alright. For logistics, I prefer Sister Hui.”

Liu Muyao was slightly taken aback: “The 44-year-old, Tao Hui?”

Xie Yunfan smiled and said: “Mhm, she has worked in logistics for over ten years and is very familiar with all purchasing processes. Although she doesn’t really understand games, logistics positions don’t require playing games either. Just hiring a few young people to help her will do. Let her be the group leader.”

The few people present were somewhat surprised. Even for logistics positions, because Yangfan Studio offered high salaries, the competition was extremely fierce. As a result, Xie Yunfan was letting Tao Hui be the group leader?

He completely didn’t mind gender or age restrictions.

It was the same with the finance group just now. A boy and a girl both graduated from prestigious universities, and their interview scores were close, but the girl’s grades during university were more outstanding, so he hired Qin Yutong.

If it were another boss, they would definitely lean towards hiring the boy.

Having worked in HR for so many years and having changed four companies, this was Liu Muyao’s first time encountering such a boss.

Xie Yunfan said: “Muyao, after completing the background checks for HR, finance, and logistics, notify them to come on board as soon as possible. There are still many things to be busy with next. For the other groups, delay the start of work by one month.”

Liu Muyao nodded: “Received!”

Xie Yunfan pulled up the roster for the art group: “For the art group, Ning Sha and Chu Yue, do you have candidates you’ve taken a liking to?”

Ning Sha called out three people’s names and said: “The characters drawn by these three are very delicate, their expressions are vivid, and their levels are professional. They also have experience as game original artists.”

Chu Yue had only graduated a year ago. He never expected that after hanging around with the boss for a period of time, he could actually participate in the interview evaluations. He said excitedly: “The two I circled draw scenes with great imagination. Especially this boy named Ji Minglang. He drew the peach blossom forest as a dark and terrifying dungeon, quite interesting!”

Ning Sha analyzed: “I think he deliberately drew it like this because the Ghost Realm that Yangfan Studio made previously was in a horror style. He probably felt the boss liked this kind of style? So he wanted to cater to his tastes.”

Xie Yunfan said: “I remember this person. The sample images in his resume weren’t horror style, right?”

Ning Sha said: “Right, his style is quite variable. Looking at his resume, he can draw all kinds of things—bright, dark. A person with this kind of comprehensive drawing style will be very helpful for making other types of games in the future.”

The others nodded in agreement one after another.

Although Yangfan Studio was famous for making horror games, there would definitely be other types of games in the future. Ji Minglang’s intention in deliberately drawing a horror dungeon during the interview was quite obvious, but Xie Yunfan didn’t reject this kind of petty cleverness. His own drawing style was variable, and he was the talent Yangfan Studio needed.

Looking at the people on the roster, Xie Yunfan thought for a moment and then said: “What about the sixth place, Shi Xiaoyu? What do you guys think of this girl?”

Shi Xiaoyu’s interview score was directly 0.5 points lower than the fifth place.

Chu Yue said: “She can’t draw scenes well. However, she draws plants and chibi styles very nicely. Especially the chibi posters; among all the interviewees, hers were the cutest.”

Ning Sha said: “Indeed, her chibi animals and characters are drawn extremely adorable. That red-eyed giant monkey boss also had a lot of imagination. But there are some flaws in her drawings, and her art style is relatively immature. She still needs to undergo more tempering.”

Xie Yunfan smiled slightly: “Let’s do it this way. We also need formidable chibi artists; it will have great use for making merchandise in the future. Moreover, the animals and plants she drew are extremely cute. Make an exception to hire her. The art group will hire one more person.”

Ning Sha and Chu Yue looked at each other in dismay.

Xie Yunfan said: “The recruitment announcement said 5 people, but if there are outstanding ones we can’t bear to eliminate, we can also hire one or two more. Our studio has many position vacancies, there’s no need to stick too rigidly to the limit. Shi Xiaoyu, I think this girl is very talented, let’s give her a chance.”

Hearing this, the others all felt happy for Shi Xiaoyu.

This girl’s luck was truly good! She was almost late for the interview and didn’t perform well under nervousness, ranking sixth. As a result, the boss took a liking to her cute drawing style and actually increased the quota to make an exception to hire her.

In that case, the art group hired 6 people aside from Ning Sha and Chu Yue.

Chu Yue said excitedly: “Suddenly there are so many more colleagues!”

Xie Yunfan said: “Your art group’s tasks are very heavy, having more people to share the burden is also good.”

Ning Sha was also very happy inside. She was currently highly valued by Xie Yunfan and had become the Art Director of Yangfan Studio. The art group expanded to 8 people, and there would be more and more in the future.

Xie Yunfan continued to hire people in batches according to the groups.

Everyone had an interview score. They were sorted according to the score from high to low, and those who were close were discussed further. They also settled on the candidate for the group leader of each group in passing.

Xie Yunfan said: “A very interesting scriptwriter came to the copywriting group, Ye Xiang. He has written many short and long dramas. Having worked in the industry for many years, his experience is rich. I want him to be the group leader. Game storylines and film/television storylines are essentially similar; they’re all about writing stories. I believe in his abilities.”

Ning Sha had a quite deep impression of this person: “Is he the one who wrote that short story Who is the Monster? I broke out in a sweat from fright after reading it.”

Xie Yunfan smiled and said: “Yes. In just a few hundred words, there were two plot twists. His brain hole (imagination) is indeed big.”

For the programming group, Xie Yunfan hired a richly experienced programmer named Xu Jianshan. He was 34 years old this year and had experience developing several mobile games. Xie Yunfan planned to let him be the group leader.

He also hired someone with a relatively low score: “Cheng Nanxing. This person has some social anxiety. During the group questioning stage, he didn’t dare to answer a single question. When I interviewed him individually, he also spoke very nervously. However, for the written test on several professional questions, he answered quickly and accurately.”

Liu Muyao said: “During his group interview, his performance wasn’t brilliant enough, so we gave him a relatively low score.”

Xie Yunfan said: “But his professional quality is solid. The programming group doesn’t need to talk and chat with people every day. I feel we can give a chance to someone with this kind of social anxiety personality. What do you guys think?”

Everyone nodded in unison.

Aside from the programming group, he also hired two people who didn’t really like to talk for the level design group. For these positions, Xie Yunfan believed that as long as their skills were up to par, being a bit introverted or even having social anxiety didn’t matter.

“A big shot came to the data group, Meng Yu. Her educational background is extremely outstanding, and her work experience is also very rich. Let her continue to be the group leader.”

“For the modeling group, I’m most optimistic about Qiao Jingmo. Because of the blow from his father’s passing, he resigned from a game company in the Imperial Capital and returned to Rong City to develop. This person’s work efficiency is very high, and his reactions during the question-answering stage were very fast. The modeling tasks are extremely heavy, let him take the lead.”

“For the testing group, Hu Fei used to be a power-leveler and helped me test Underworld Labyrinth. His mind is flexible, and he works earnestly and solidly; there’s also Huo Minghui, he’s 42 years old, but he has 30 years of gaming experience. I think his joining can give the company a lot of help.”

“For the network group, I chose 5 people with website architecture and operations experience. Among them is one named Yu Baichuan, who made several websites himself and came to seek refuge with me after failing at starting a business. This person’s family background isn’t quite simple, and a detailed background check is needed.”

Programming, networks, modeling—Liu Muyao and the others couldn’t help with these groups either as they didn’t really understand them, so Xie Yunfan very decisively finished selecting them himself.

In a one-hour meeting, they finalized the roster of nearly 80 people hired across all groups. Looking at Liu Muyao, Xie Yunfan said: “Muyao, do you know any professional background check companies?”

Liu Muyao immediately nodded: “I know, there’s one in Rong City specifically doing background checks for large enterprises.”

Xie Yunfan said: “Good, this task is handed over to you. Do background checks for the copywriting and art groups, focusing on investigating if they have a history of plagiarism; for the other groups, do detailed background checks on their work resumes to eliminate the possibility of friendly merchants sending spies to our studio.”

Liu Muyao: “Rest assured Boss, I will have them produce results as soon as possible!”

…

That evening, Xie Yunfan treated Ji Yan, Zhang Zizheng, and Zhou Shiyue to a meal together. At the dinner table, he said straightforwardly: “The three of you are my classmates. I know your abilities are all pretty good, but you just graduated from university and your seniority is shallow. Therefore, if you come to my company, I cannot let you be group leaders directly.”

The three hurriedly nodded to express their understanding.

Ji Yan said readily: “Yunfan, just make the arrangements. We don’t have much experience making games either, so starting as small employees is very reasonable. Being a group leader… I’d even be afraid of bearing the responsibility! Haha.”

Zhou Shiyue said: “Exactly. We are your classmates; if you directly let a group of noobs like us be group leaders, others will definitely be unconvinced. Judging qualifications and arranging seniority is very normal, we don’t mind these things.”

Zhang Zizheng also said: “Being able to go to the testing group to take money and play games is already very awesome for me! To tell the truth, Yunfan, we’re even worried that going to your company would drag you down.”

Xie Yunfan smiled slightly: “You won’t, I have cooperated with you guys and know your abilities. The company’s first batch of recruitment has already ended, and there will be a second round of campus recruitment during the graduation season. At that time, you can come sign the contracts after getting your graduation certificates. After school starts, you can come to the company to intern first.”

The three said in unison: “Okay!”

Their graduation projects had already been carried through to approval by Xie Yunfan, and their jobs were also settled. In the second half of their senior year, they were all idle, so they might as well go to Yunfan’s place to intern and help out!

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On the afternoon of February 28th, a residential area in Rong City.

Shi Xiaoyu was currently staring blankly at the drawing drafts on her computer.

Outside was her mother’s nagging voice: “You’ve been graduated for half a year already, and you still haven’t gone out to look for a job? Staying at home every day, do you expect your mom and dad to support you for a lifetime!”

Shi Xiaoyu’s eye rims turned slightly red. Her parents’ nagging pierced her heart like needles, as if her inability to find a job had become an enormous sin.

But the current employment environment truly wasn’t very good. As a fresh graduate from a very poor university, she had to compete with those from key institutions at every interview. How could it be that easy?

She had already been trying very hard to look. For the past half year, she had run into countless walls to find a job, and had also listened to her parents’ nagging and complaining countless times. She wanted to take commissions herself, but how could an artist with no reputation easily receive a large number of commissions? Her pricing for drawing chibi styles was very cheap; earning two to three thousand a month could only barely support herself.

Taking a deep breath, Shi Xiaoyu looked at the remaining 5000 balance on her card, gritted her teeth, and opened the recruitment website again, intending to send out more resumes.

The interview at Yangfan Studio was probably a lost cause. They said they would notify the results in three days, and this was already the third day but there was still no news at all… A company with such potential was originally not something she could extravagantly hope for.

As Shi Xiaoyu was dejectedly refreshing the recruitment website, her phone suddenly lit up.

“Hello, I am Liu Muyao, the HR Manager of Yangfan Studio. Congratulations on being hired by Yangfan Studio. Please come to the 21st floor of Building A, Nanyang Park, Rong City, between 9:00 AM and 5:00 PM on March 10th to process your onboarding procedures. The list of documents you need to bring and the precautions have been sent to your email.
Looking forward to your joining ^^”

Shi Xiaoyu forcefully rubbed her eyes and read this text message repeatedly three times over!

Heavens, was it real? She had actually really been hired by Yangfan Studio?

Shi Xiaoyu excitedly jumped straight up.

That’s great! Half a year after graduating, she had finally found a job, and it was a particularly fantastic job!

…

At the same time, on a train heading back.

Huo Minghui looked out the window at the desolate scenery of the north with a melancholic expression.

For this interview, he felt his hopes of being hired were extremely slim. After all, at the age of 42, most bosses wouldn’t accept such an older employee.

It was a game company, after all. Accepting some young people would mean they work harder and their thinking is more active. In a fierce competition of 15 for 5 spots, what did he have to compete with the others?

It was the third day and there was still no news, so he had bought a ticket to go home.

His wife and children were still waiting at home. Staying an extra day in Rong City was an additional expense. Being out alone, he couldn’t bear to stay in hotels that were too high-class, only staying in guesthouses that cost a little over a hundred a night.

The awkwardness of being strapped for cash could only be known after experiencing how difficult it was.

Just as he was thinking about what to do next, his phone suddenly rang.

“Hello, I am the HR Manager of Yangfan Studio…”

Huo Minghui slightly widened his eyes, repeatedly looking at this text message in disbelief.

His hands were trembling. To confirm the authenticity of the text message, he immediately logged into his email. Sure enough, he saw an unread email from “Yangfan Recruitment,” very clearly detailing the documents he needed to bring to process the onboarding procedures, precautions, and so on.

It was actually real? He had been hired!

Thinking of the bitterness of these past few years, Huo Minghui’s eye rims instantly turned red. Covering his eyes, he forcibly held back his tears. A child passing by asked enthusiastically: “Uncle, are you crying? Do you want a tissue?”

Huo Minghui rubbed his eyes and said with a smile: “No, Uncle is just too excited.”

He took out his phone and quickly sent a message to his wife: “Wife, I got hired.”

Back when he got into university and received his admission letter, he hadn’t even been this excited. He truly was very grateful to Yangfan Studio’s Xie Yunfan for being willing to give this “uncle” a work opportunity!

…

At the New Dream Power Leveling Studio, Hu Fei was currently carrying a boss (client) through ranked matches. The moment he saw the text message pop up, he immediately blurted out: “Damn! The boss really didn’t forget me!”

The boss playing ranked with him looked bewildered: “What? What did I forget about you?”

Hu Fei: “Ah, I wasn’t talking about you, sorry about that Boss.”

That boss didn’t know whether to laugh or cry: “You have quite a lot of bosses, huh!”

Hu Fei laughed: “Hehe, we call everyone we carry a boss. However, there is only one true boss in my heart. I’m going to go seek refuge with this big boss in a couple of days!”

It could be heard that he was very excited. Who knew what good thing had happened?

…

Cheng Nanxing was currently playing a game. The moment the text message popped up, his hand slipped, and the little character in the game plunged headfirst into a pit. He hurriedly exited the game, opened the text message, and lowered his head to read it in detail several times over.

He had actually been hired?

But, during the group interview segment, he hadn’t answered a single question!

As a “severe social anxiety alien,” what he feared most was speaking in crowded occasions. Since he was young, he would get nervous when asked questions by teachers, let alone with so many people together, and it being a holographic interview on top of that.

He wished he could drill into a corner to hide and reduce his presence.

At the time, he felt he definitely had no hope. Group interviews were very unfriendly to socially anxious people, while the interviewers would definitely give more impression points to those lively, cheerful, and eloquent people.

Later, when Xie Yunfan sought him out to chat individually, it was also a case of the other party asking a sentence and him answering a sentence. He didn’t dare say a single word of surplus talk… His entire person was very tense.

The moment the interview ended, he knew: it’s over. If he had known earlier it was a group interview, he wouldn’t even have needed to go. He guessed his score in the interview stage was extremely low, and he was just there to accompany the runners.

Who could have imagined that someone like him with “zero presence” had actually been hired?

Cheng Nanxing was both puzzled and excited.

Xie Yunfan was truly a divine person! Exactly how had he discovered this little transparent person?

…

Tao Hui was currently busy cooking dishes in the kitchen. In a few days, her daughter’s school would start, and she needed to live on campus. She wanted to make a table full of dishes to reward her daughter before school started.

Right at this moment, the kitchen door was pushed open. A girl with ear-length short hair came in and said: “Mom, your phone rang, a text message. It was sent by the HR Manager of Yangfan Studio.”

Tao Hui said: “HR Manager? Was I hired? Quick, quick, look carefully!”

She was too excited. The spatula in the pot forcefully jerked, and a chicken wing went flying out.

After reading the text message, Tao Jingjing walked over, hugged her, and said: “Mom, you were hired. It’s true.”

Tao Hui beamed: “I didn’t expect I could still go work at such a big company. This company’s benefits are great. Once Mom earns money later on, I’ll buy you whatever you want to buy!”

Tao Jingjing’s nose felt somewhat sour. As a child growing up in a single-parent family, she knew her mother’s hardships over the years.

She was the one who wrote the resume her mother used to interview at Yangfan Studio. At the time, she felt the hope wasn’t great. Yangfan Studio was very famous in the industry, the salary was high, and the competition was extremely fierce. Even for a logistics position, people would squeeze until their heads broke. Who could have imagined that her mother was actually hired?

Taking a deep breath, Tao Jingjing said: “Mom, don’t worry. After I live on campus, I’ll take good care of myself. You can go work at your new unit with peace of mind. Let me look at what needs to be brought for the onboarding procedures. Your logistics position reports on March 3rd, I’ll go prepare the materials for you right now.”

Tao Hui said: “Right, tonight you should teach me again how to play holographic games. That gaming cabin is too advanced. What if our boss decides to have another holographic meeting or something? I have to familiarize myself.”

Tao Jingjing laughed: “Okay! After eating, I’ll take you to the experience center and teach you how to play!”

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On March 3rd, the 3 people hired by the HR Department took the lead to come process their onboarding procedures. They surprisingly discovered that the HR Department actually only consisted of Liu Muyao alone?

Moreover, Liu Muyao actually borrowed the boss’s office to process their onboarding procedures for them. The office areas on the 18th and 19th floors were all completely empty, without even a single desk…

The three looked at each other in dismay.

Yangfan Studio seemed to be somewhat different from what they had imagined?

Fortunately, Liu Muyao handled things briskly. After quickly inputting their information, she started assigning them tasks. Following their richly experienced group leader, the three quickly threw themselves into the work.

Making the colleagues’ nameplates, arranging the onboarding times for different groups, coordinating the park’s hotel so out-of-town colleagues could have a temporary place to stay…

The HR Department was extremely busy.

That afternoon, the people from logistics and finance also came to report.

At first, everyone was very surprised to see the empty offices. However, the onboarding procedure process was very formal, plus the boss was also there, so everyone assumed this was a “newly renovated office building” and didn’t think much more about it.

Xie Yunfan sought out Tao Hui individually and said: “Sister Hui, you’re relatively familiar with the malls big and small over here in Rong City. I want you to be the logistics group leader, responsible for the upcoming purchasing of office supplies.”

Tao Hui couldn’t believe it: “M-me as the group leader?”

Xie Yunfan smiled slightly: “Yes, you have rich experience, guide the few young people.”

Tao Hui nodded excitedly: “Thank you for the boss’s trust!”

Xie Yunfan said: “I will have finance approve a budget for your logistics. You control the budget well, negotiate the prices, sign the purchasing contracts, and then just have finance transfer the money.”

Tao Hui beamed: “Understood!”

Turning around, Xie Yunfan officially handed over the studio’s financial seal to Ling Xiao: “From now on, after you finish auditing the funding approvals for the various departments, just find me to sign off.”

Ling Xiao received the seal cautiously: “Okay Boss.”

Xie Yunfan said: “Approve a 5 million fund for logistics to purchase desks, chairs, computers, as well as daily necessities like snacks, coffee machines, and tea bar machines; give a 2 million fund to HR here to be used for organizing future activities; for every onboarded employee, approve a 3000 yuan reimbursement quota to be used for purchasing keyboards, mice, headphones, etc.”

Ling Xiao asked: “For keyboards and mice, we aren’t having logistics do unified purchasing?”

Xie Yunfan explained: “The technical positions in a game company all require long-term typing. They might not be accustomed to using unified purchased keyboards and mice. Let the employees go buy the ones they like themselves.”

Some employees were suited to light-touch keyboards, while some were used to heavier mechanical switches.

Xie Yunfan didn’t want to do unified purchasing for these tools that had to be used every day. His company was very humane; as long as the employees could complete their work, they would possess immense freedom in the company.

After arranging everything, Ling Xiao sought out Tao Hui and said the boss had approved 5 million for logistics.

Hearing this number, Tao Hui’s eyes went perfectly round.

Having worked in logistics for over a decade, this was her first time seeing 5 million directly approved for logistics.

The boss was tyrannical (wealthy and generous)!

Finding Xie Yunfan, Tao Hui said: “Boss, purchasing desks, chairs, and computers won’t use this much money. I know source manufacturers for bulk purchasing, we can get them at wholesale prices.”

Xie Yunfan said: “For the chairs, buy all ergonomic chairs, the ones above 3000 yuan with better quality. I don’t want the employees to get sore waists, aching backs, and cervical spondylosis. For the computers, buy the highest specifications, with every mainframe equipped with two ultra-clear large-screen monitors; for the tea bar machines and coffee machines, pick good ones to buy too. Stuff all the cabinets in the snack area full for me.”

Xie Yunfan paused: “If it’s not enough, seek finance to approve more. The budget is ample.”

Tao Hui: “…”

Written on the young boss’s face were four words: Having money, being willful! (Rich and capricious!)

It was also her first time encountering such a conscientious boss. Actually, just casually buying a chair for the office would only cost two or three hundred bucks, and there were even cheaper ones for a few dozen bucks. Some bosses were stingy and would have her go to wholesale markets to buy cheap chairs for the employees to use, saving as much as possible.

Ergonomic chairs were built according to the curvature of the human spine, which could alleviate fatigue and wouldn’t cause back pain even after sitting for a long time—but the price was very beautiful (expensive). A slightly better chair would cost two or three thousand bucks each.

For the sake of the employees’ health, the boss was willing to spend ten times more money to purchase these office supplies. For computers and monitors, he bought the highest specifications for all of them. She heard he even approved a 3000 reimbursement quota for everyone to go buy keyboards and mice? This boss was way, way, way too generous, wasn’t he!

With a boss who was this generous even with office supplies, he definitely wouldn’t be stingy when distributing bonuses in the future, right? Doing things under a generous boss was just satisfying!

The Finance Department had just been shocked once by Xie Yunfan’s lavishness. Closely following, the newly onboarded companions of the logistics and HR departments were also shocked speechless by the boss’s tyrannical generosity.

Exactly what kind of immortal boss had they encountered?