Wu Bin almost thought he had seen wrong.
These books weren’t particularly thick volumes, but the covers had the words “Tenda Employment Exam” written on them!
There had been candidates bringing study guides to the exams before. Though they couldn’t copy directly from them, they could look through them during the lunch break to review knowledge points, having the effect of last-minute preparation.
But previously, the study guides that candidates brought were mostly study guides for civil service exams, because the content of the administrative aptitude test section was universal.
Now, there are specialized study guides specifically for Tenda’s employment exam?
Wu Bin found it surreal.
He said to the candidate who was reviewing: “Could I take a look at this book?”
As he spoke, he pointed to the book titled “Tenda Employment Exam Real Questions and Detailed Solutions.”
The candidate saw that Wu Bin was wearing a staff badge, knew he was a Tenda employee, and became a bit nervous. He hurriedly nodded and handed over the book.
Wu Bin reached out to take it and flipped through it briefly, scanning several sets of exam questions.
Were these real questions?
Wu Bin frowned slightly. Could it be that someone inside the company had leaked the questions?
The strictness of Tenda’s employment exam was similar to civil service exams. After the exam ended, not only the exam papers, but even the scratch paper that was handed out had to be collected, and previous exam questions would not be published through any channel.
Logically speaking, the outside world shouldn’t be able to obtain these real questions.
Wu Bin was instantly alert—this matter couldn’t be taken lightly.
He quickly turned to the answer page of the real questions to look at the standard answers.
This time, Wu Bin breathed a sigh of relief.
Because the standard answers didn’t match the standard answers established internally by Tenda.
Looking back carefully at these questions at the beginning, he discovered that some of the question descriptions were inaccurate, especially for short-answer questions with longer text, where there seemed to be some minor errors and omissions.
Although it didn’t affect the content and answers, this indicated that these test materials didn’t leak from within Tenda.
“That’s good, it probably wasn’t leaked by internal staff.”
It seemed that these questions were likely compiled by certain training institutions in society.
Just like civil service exams, which were much stricter than Tenda’s employment exam, with real questions being state secrets. But every year’s real questions could still be found online.
Because many training institutions had crude methods, they would assign their teachers to take the exam. Some would memorize by rote, some would copy individual questions onto their admission tickets to take out with them, and some netizens would even voluntarily remember some exam questions to share online.
In short, there were too many ways to reconstruct a set of test questions, and these methods were all reasonable and legal.
With these questions, training institutions would organize experts to research the answers and break down and refine the knowledge points contained within them to teach to their students.
These answers might not be completely correct and couldn’t possibly match Tenda’s standard answers, but since they were answered by professionals, they would certainly be better than what ordinary candidates could produce, so they still had guiding significance.
Wu Bin breathed a sigh of relief.
It was impossible to keep real questions confidential.
Being able to confirm that it wasn’t a leak from their own company and that there were no moles during the entire examination period was already good news.
The current situation instead proved how popular Tenda’s employment exam had become.
Wu Bin thanked the candidate and returned the book, then silently made a note of this matter.
There were already specialized training institutions creating teaching materials targeting Tenda, and they had even reconstructed the real questions.
Wu Bin had thought that this situation might occur, but he hadn’t expected it to come so quickly.
This matter made Wu Bin feel slightly uncomfortable.
Tenda’s introduction of the employment exam system was, to put it bluntly, to create a fair and just environment for all job seekers.
These candidates are doing various administrative aptitude tests and improving their professional knowledge to increase their probability of passing the exam was, in itself, beyond reproach.
But many training institutions, seeing this as a financial opportunity, began selling real questions from Tenda’s employment exam, effectively causing internal competition among candidates and profiting from it.
It was foreseeable that as more and more people became involved in Tenda’s employment exam and there were more and more candidates, these training institutions would profit more and more from it.
At that point, if candidates didn’t buy these real questions from training institutions, they would be at a disadvantage in the exam, so this would become a vicious cycle of internal competition.
This point made Wu Bin feel a bit disgruntled.
But disgruntled as he was, Wu Bin had no solution.
After all, the vast majority of exams in the world had the shadow of these training institutions. What they were doing wasn’t illegal—could you force them not to interpret Tenda’s exam questions?
That wasn’t realistic either.
So Wu Bin just made a note of this matter, planning to prepare a report later to submit to Hao Yun, who would then report it to Mr. Pei, letting Mr. Pei decide what to do.
…
In the afternoon, approaching the end of the work day.
After finishing a day’s work, Wu Bin looked at his watch; it was about time to get off work and go home to rest.
However, at this moment, his phone rang. It was a completely unfamiliar number.
“Hello?” Wu Bin answered the phone.
A very polite, even somewhat fawning voice came through the phone.
“Hello! Is this Mr. Wu from Tenda? Is it convenient for you to talk now?”
Wu Bin frowned slightly but didn’t answer directly: “What’s the matter?”
The person on the phone chuckled: “Oh, Mr. Wu, we are a professional training institution and would like to collaborate with you.”
Wu Bin was taken aback: “Collaborate with me?”
The person on the phone said: “Yes. Mr. Wu, it’s like this. We’ve heard for a long time that in Tenda’s employment exam, there’s a very important segment called ‘Tenda Spirit Test.’ Is that right?”
“We would like to produce a study guide related to the ‘Tenda Spirit Test.'”
“To be frank, there’s a very high demand for this material, and many of our students want to buy it. But we simply don’t have the channel to get it.”
“So, we’ve managed to find you through various connections.”
“If you could provide a similar channel and help us produce a ‘Tenda Spirit Test’ study guide, we can negotiate the profits from this area quite generously.”
“If you could provide real questions, that would be even better! Even if there are no real questions, as long as the material is not too different and won’t be exposed, that would be enough…”
“Do you understand what I mean?”
Wu Bin frowned deeply and, after a moment of silence, said: “How did you get my contact information?”
The person on the other end seemed to sense that Wu Bin was angry and hurriedly explained: “Mr. Wu, don’t misunderstand. We don’t intend to invade your privacy. We just want to establish a good relationship, and we can all make money—I mean, achieve something together.”
Wu Bin said sternly: “The Tenda Spirit Compatibility Test is only accessible to a very small number of job applicants, as most people are filtered out during the written test phase. Not everyone needs it, right?”
The person on the phone said, “Mr. Wu, that’s where you’re not aware. We can do bundled sales.”
“We can bundle the written test, interview, and spirit test materials together for sale. Each book costs about 20 yuan, so altogether it’s just 60 yuan. Most people wouldn’t mind spending an extra 20 yuan for convenience.”
“Indeed, very few people can use it, but it’s a willing transaction on both sides; it doesn’t matter.”
Wu Bin understood.
The training institution that was called was also very clear that the Tenda Spirit Test was useless for 99% of the people taking Tenda’s employment exam.
Because if you couldn’t even pass the written test, why worry about the final step of the Tenda Spirit Test? Isn’t that like wanting to learn to fly before you’ve learned to walk?
Moreover, people who get hired are gradually influenced within their departments and can pass the Tenda Spirit Compatibility Test smoothly, so they don’t need this study material at all.
So this training institution didn’t even say they needed real questions for the Tenda Spirit Test.
As long as they could get away with it without being exposed, that would be fine.
Simply put, they were looking to collect an intelligence tax.
They would bundle Tenda’s written test questions, interview questions, and spirit test questions and sell them as a package. Those who came to buy would think all three sets of questions were useful and buy them all.
This 20 yuan was purely an intelligence tax, and most people might not even realize it.
Wu Bin was silent for a moment, then said: “This is Tenda’s highest secret. I advise you not to pursue this idea in the future, or there won’t be any good outcomes!”
With that, Wu Bin hung up the phone.
This was simply outrageous.
The Tenda Spirit was Tenda’s highest secret, a spiritual wealth shared by all Tenda employees, a guiding principle that he had painstakingly summarized from Mr. Pei’s words and actions.
How could it be used for business to make money?
Especially being used by these training institutions to collect an intelligence tax from students, this was even more intolerable!
Wu Bin felt that this matter must be taken seriously.
Since these training institutions could find his contact information through various means, they could certainly find other employees as well.
Wu Bin was an employee of the Human Resources department, with the deepest and most firm understanding of the Tenda Spirit, so he could resist this temptation.
But what about other ordinary employees?
They might not recognize the seriousness of this matter, or they might simply be bought with money.
If these training institutions produced a study guide for the Tenda Spirit Test, it would become an industry chain. Although it might not make much money now, as Tenda’s scale grew larger and more people took Tenda’s employment exam, the benefits involved would also increase.
This kind of thing didn’t conform to the Tenda Spirit.
It was necessary to report to Mr. Pei as soon as possible to address this hidden danger!
Looking at the time, it was time to get off work.
Wu Bin thought about it and decided to summarize these matters tomorrow morning, report them to Hao Yun, and then have Hao Yun report to Mr. Pei, letting Mr. Pei decide what to do.