The Goddess Shines on America

Lockheed's headquarters are located in Bethesda, Montgomery County, Maryland.

This is a short distance away, because Maryland is located to the north of Washington, DC, and Bethesda is close to Washington, DC itself. The distance between the two city centers is even eight miles. Departing early in the morning, from the hotel to the city by car, and then to the headquarters of the Lockheed company, the whole journey takes more than 15 minutes.

The company has a huge square building with a wide parking lot in front of it. When Alice was invited into the building by Oren, engineers could be seen hurriedly everywhere. But when they saw Oren, they all greeted him enthusiastically, and gave Alice a slightly surprised look.

"Hey, Mr. Lockheed."

The Indian man at the front desk saw Oren and greeted him warmly: "You arrived earlier today."

Oren nodded and said: "Call the guys in charge of the yf-22 project and have a meeting in the b-2 conference room in half an hour."

The front desk clerk first glanced at Alice who was silent, then nodded quickly and said, "Okay, Mr. Lockheed."

Seeing that employee immediately lowered her head to call, Alice couldn't help but interject: "I said Oren, conference room b-2?"

"Northrop Grumman."

Oren laughed and said: "Yes, Alice, the bid for the b-2 bomber was snatched by this **** company, so now we have to compete for the development of yf-22. If there are two consecutive aircraft projects. They all succeeded, and my father had to get out of anger with a cerebral hemorrhage."

"Well, I will work hard..."

Smiling cheerfully, when Oren led her into an elevator, Alice said, "I've been to Washington once or twice in fact. I've been to Washington once or twice. In general, it really deserves to be the political center of the country. Well, Oren, the building we just passed by belongs to nsa?"

Of course Oren knew which building Alice was referring to, and nodded: "Washington is so big, of course you can't expect to put all the agencies there. The CIA is in Langley, and the National Security Agency is in Fort Meade. The FBI was established in Quantico, Virginia, far away, basically around Washington."

Alice tuts, but she doesn't say anything.

After getting out of the elevator, the two of them continued to move forward. From time to time, passing employees would say hello to Oren, and would more or less take an extra look at Alice. Of course, Alice was also looking at the surrounding environment, and this of course fell into Oren's eyes.

"This is also the first time you have come to our company. How do you feel?"

"Very man."

After thinking about it for a moment, when Oren opened the meeting room door for her, Alice said, "Probably because they are all male engineers? The interior decoration style of the building is really monotonous, with blue and black colors everywhere. The main color is cool, but you don’t even have a slightly stylish interior. So, you didn’t hire any outstanding designers to arrange it for you?"

To be fair, Oren wanted to ask Alice to comment on the company's atmosphere, but this girl picked a lot of faults from the decoration.

"This... an old building for decades..."

"It's been decades, but I haven't thought about decoration at all?"

With that said, Alice strolled in the empty conference room, looking at the plain white concrete walls around it: "We are not a government or a public institution. Don't we need to rely on arduous simplicity to satisfy the public's psychology? Look at it. This wall, look at this window sill, you don’t even have potted flowers, don’t you feel bored when you work?"

With that, she sneered and looked at Oren, who was really shriveled.

To be fair, an arms company that develops military aircraft, missiles and satellite communications, how can it focus on exquisite interior decoration! ?

Fortunately, Alice has no plans to embarrass Oren anymore, otherwise, if she lays out the working conditions of those companies in Silicon Valley in the future, someone will have to get home depressed.

Then, it was time for the meeting.

Following the call from the front desk staff, a staff member rushed to the b-2 conference room non-stop. Their average age was all 30 years old and 40 years old also accounted for a large proportion. Many people are wearing uniform clothing with the Lockheed logo, which is easily reminiscent of the ibm with blue overalls. When the number of people is basically the same, Alice also noticed that the entire number 30 is designed. In the teacher, there are only two women.

Of course, just before all the staff arrived, all the employees who were seated were also curiously looking at Alice, but seeing that Oren, who was sitting in the first place, didn’t mean to introduce them, they were obviously shy in their hearts. The question was just to say hello to Oren.

However, after all, someone broke the silence.

"Are you Alice-King?"

One of the only female employees. When the last employee was about to take a seat, she glanced at Alice casually, but was immediately stunned: "Which Alice-King?"

Alice grinned, glanced at her badge, and shook hands and said, "Hello, Susan, if the Alice-King you are referring to is indeed the Alice-King you thought of, then that's right. I am the Alice-King you thought of and pointed to."

The girl's playful answer suddenly broke the previous silence, and many of the male engineers who seemed to hold back for a long time laughed.

"Ahem."

Seeing that everyone was there, Oren interrupted Susan's next words: "Dear Susan, would you please close the door?"

Susan looked back. She was the last one to enter the house, but she forgot to close the door: "Oh, sorry, Mr. Lockheed."

When Susan returned to her seat again, Oren nodded and said: "Then, I believe many of you here will recognize it. The one sitting next to me is the founder of Cisco Systems in San Jose and a member of Microsoft. Shareholder, a 15-year-old billionaire, a genius programmer, Alice Wang."

With a silent smile, every engineer in the audience clapped their hands, and Alice stood up in time and bowed slightly to everyone.

It is worth mentioning that, after all, it is a meeting of more than 30 people, so the area of ​​this b-2 meeting room is not small, and the pieced together meeting table is amazing in length. Alice sits tightly in the first place on Oren's right hand, and even if she stands up, it takes a little eye to look at the last person.

"Alice is a very talented programmer, and I am not exaggerating to say that she might be able to single out everyone in our room."

Like provocation and pure rhetoric, Oren smiled and said: "So, presumably everyone sees the identities of the colleagues around you, and you know what the theme of this meeting is. That's right, Alice will serve as a technical consultant. Participate in the design and development of the yf-22 fighter."

Although everyone can basically guess the reason, when Oren announced it himself, everyone still showed a surprised expression.

"Oren, do you mean a technical consultant?"

The name of "Joseph" was clearly written on the badge, and a middle-aged engineer who was slightly flattened questioned: "Isn't it a direct job in the company?"

"Yes, Joseph, Alice is not an employee of our company."

Oren nodded and said: "I don't know how many of you have followed the news in Silicon Valley. Microsoft's windows 1.0 system was developed by Alice alone in a week. Related reports... "

Oren paused for a while, because the exclamation that rang out in the house made him stop talking: "...all of which can be accessed directly. The press conference after Microsoft went public in March last year, even with the disclosure of ibm. , All impressions, right?"

"At that time."

The time, place and event were so clearly designated, everyone in the room naturally got in touch. At the corner of the table, a man wearing square glasses said: "Miss Wang’s programming ability has indeed been tested in practice. I have one. A friend who works in the financial industry, his investment company bought a Cisco router. Miss Wang, is the patent for this product also yours?"

"Just call me Alice, Mr. O'Hara."

Seven meters away, seeing the other party’s badge clearly, and seeing O’Hara’s flash of surprise, Alice smiled and said, “In terms of work ability, please rest assured, as you said, nothing is better than practice. Inspection. At present, the most laborious work of the yf-22 project is to program the avionics system. What is my level, and I can prove everything with a computer, right?"

All of you present here are technicians, and if you can participate in a project such as the research and development of yf-22 in a company like Lockheed, everyone can be said to be the top industry expert. Seeing Alice coming up to speak with her real ability, everyone immediately felt a confidant feeling, but at the same time, many people looked unconvinced.

Every expression of everyone ~www.readwn.com~Alice certainly has it in her eyes.

Fortunately, after all, I was already considered a small reputation, and the seriousness was not an ordinary reputation. Those few people were just a little unconvinced, not a mocking expression.

Even today, Alice also feels quite lucky.

Because whether it is Microsoft, Cisco, or Lockheed at this time, they are all typical technology-oriented companies, and it has always been easy for geniuses to emerge. People like programming masters have never been able to judge their level based on their age, which is far from ordinary companies.

If you are now in a company like Coca-Cola or Johnson & Johnson, and take up the job of an account manager in the street, I'm afraid I would have been laughed out of it.

Oh, of course, in terms of DreamWorks, in the entertainment industry, youth is the biggest capital.

Seeing that the atmosphere was relaxed, everyone seemed to accept Alice. Oren was also relieved and said: "Okay, then Joseph, you can give Alice a brief briefing first. First of all... introduce us to her in detail. Aircraft." (To be continued.)