This is CBSI in the world.

I'm John Bachelor.

Huawei, a security threat.

But it's hiring.

The book is Wireless Wars.

Jonathan Pelson is the author.

China's dangerous domination of 5G and how we're fighting back.

It is now the recession, the great recession, 2008, 2009, 2010.

Many companies are making considerations about their future because of the crash on Wall

Street, the doubts about the future, the price of money.

However, Huawei is hiring, and Jonathan Pelson's book takes us into a room

in Richardson, Texas, where salesmen, salespeople, really good with, you know, as Jonathan

teaches me, if you've got a book of customers, you're worth a lot of money. You just have to pay

you the right money.

Huawei is bidding on these sales force from everywhere, and they're sometimes increasing their

compensation by 30 percent. So they're all gathered in a room waiting for something to happen.

Some of them, I imagine, have been there for days. It's a rudimentary room. They're on folding

chairs. There's some big hitters in the room.

And in walks, an HR woman who gives them a speech. What does she tell them, John?

Well, she's talking to these people, and they're all, some of them have been laid off from

from Lucent or Nokia or Siemens, whoever. Some of them were hired away, lured away from those companies.

And she's explaining how it will be working for Huawei now.

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