An Inside Look Into Dahua
"The only interior area we were allowed to photograph was the lobby:"
Because the lobby has already been copied by the competition...?
Because the lobby has already been copied by the competition...?
Probably because that one is a 'dummy', real one around the corner...
Ethan, what is employment like in general for Dahua/Hik? Does it follow the Japanese, 'Job for Life', model or is it more Western?
Are the two HQ's around the block from each other? Normally you would think there would be quite a few defectors at each company, but with the apparent paranoia, maybe not...
They're about 10 minutes from each other by car. Not particularly far, but not really close, either.
In China, things are more Western, generally speaking. It's my impression from talking to people there that employees move around fairly often, especially at the smaller manufacturers. Landing a Dahua/Hik position, probably not so much. But I don't think they're "lifers" either, necessarily.
You had mentioned before about labor being as low as $1/HR for the flea market merchants. Do you have a guess at what the average Dahua factory worker makes? The average engineer?
Did they consider themselves equal to Hik in technology or superior?
Just a note of interest, when I clicked on the image of the cameras on the building, our Symantec/Norton anti-virus software sounded off that the link was unsafe and contained possible drive-by downloads of malware.
Bill, I tried a few other IPVM images from other pages, it reported all of them for warnings, so I suspect it is a false positive.
Nice to see IPVM is finnaly coming out of the "western superiority shell". Congratulations for the report.
Nice to see IPVM is finally coming out of the "western superiority shell".
Not for me, I wish I could crawl back under it... :)
I don't think we've been in a "western superiority shell."
We have positively reviewed plenty of non-Western product, with quite a bit of it outperforming Western companies.
See:
- Dahua Starlight 1/2" Camera Tested
- The 4MP Shootout - Dahua vs Hikvision
- Super Low Lux Minidome Tested
- Testing FLIR (Dahua) IR PTZ
- Samsung Wisenet III Camera Shootout
Just as a start off the top of my head.
Very interesting read - must have been a fascinating trip!
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