Only in America people are brainwashed by greedy bankers in wallstreet to think this way. What innovation does India, Korea, China, Taiwan, Singapore have? none, but they are prosperous because they are not stupid to believe that innovation is... — read more 

It's not clear from the package, is it 14 days or 30 days from receipt of package? Also if u decide to go with the default cobra package( 6 months and $9000) do u still need to call cobra? Or is it by default from jun1st?

Tell them to look around the company, look at the miserable look on people's faces. Drag them into a meeting or status review. And you get bonus points if you bring them along to the HR meeting you have if you get laid off, or "the talk" with your... — read more 

Is there a way to report a manager for creating a toxic work environment without them knowing that you reported them? Our org has a voluntary attrition rate that's three times the norm.

and cost $50 in parts... Aside from now learning how to change the capacitor on my unit so I don't need to hire him anymore......The more important lesson I learned? Why the hell did I become an engineer again, hoping for that 2-4% pay increase every... — read more 

I want my son to spend as much time with their son so that my son can learn that it's much better to be a doctor, and hopefully never follow in my footsteps. Considering my friend's house is this gnormous McMansion, that's a good start....

I told him, he was wasting his time, because it's not a good idea to make a career out of it. He turns to me and says, "aren't you an engineer"? I said yes, and If I only counted on that to pay for this house, this car, your extracurricular activity... — read more 

Focal was done before layoffs were announced. I wonder if FLMs and SLMs were instructed by HR to give dripping raises.

My dad was an Aerospace Engineer for 25 years. He worked for Hughes Aircraft, TRW, Northrop, Lockeed, Martin Marietta....He tells me that he was very unlucky. Unlike his peers, he was never laid off. His friends and peers were all laid off very early... — read more 

Granted, that the 8 cylinder Bi-Turbo engine takes 8 quarts of synthetic at $8/quart, and an oil filter is like $10. That's $136 for 1/2 hour of labor. How much do W2 slave engineers make per hour again????? And you want to listen to CEO's telling... — read more 

Simple supply and demand. Why on earth would you want your kids to compete in this cesspool moving forward? Med School, Law School, Business School.. But Engineering School??? No fking way. CEOs are happy with the cheap well educated labor moving... — read more 

Engineer = slavery Earning potential = suck doggy butt

If the CEOs were allowed to do that.

Doctor pay has been steadily increasing, especially with more patients seeing doctor under the ACA. Minimum wage workers get almost a 40% pay increase when minimum wage ends up being $15/hour. Public sector employees get a guaranteed pension with an... — read more 

A doctor's starting pay (family practice) is $175,000, with maybe a $100,000 sign on bonus. More, if you practice in a remote area where no one wants to work.... A PHD engineer will be lucky to start making $175,000 10 years later. Both spend about... — read more 

spent the same amount of time in school to become a doctor.

Fortunately, the alarm company didn't charge me anything to do the upgrade. But, they subcontracted the work out to a technician...1/2 hour job.... $150..... Why do people go to college for 4-6 to get an engineering degree, only to be outsourced by... — read more 

Why are you creating proprietary tools when you could work for CAD vendors, creating industrial standard tools? You know the skills you develop is not marketable outside. Your proprietary tools not only causes inefficiencies to product development... — read more 

$1.2bn between 95,000 people is still a nice bonus, I'd have spent my $13k on a new car. The people who Intel wanted rid of got rewarded for poor performance. The rest of us got all the disruption and ongoing fear. If anything Intel should sue those... — read more 

Google, Microsoft then Intel. All innovation sucked out of America's greatest companies.

How about all VP's/GM's and MCM shoiw leadership and compassion by getting zero raise, zero bonus, and zero stock (L5) on account of the 12,000 layoffs. This will motivate them to be more careful with Intel's resources. Then if they want to right... — read more 

I wasn't impacted by ISP, VSP, ER or project closure however, I'm in a very, very bad situation with my +1 manager ( my manager's manager). The guy is definitely out to get me. I speak out in meetings and question/scrutinize things that he does not... — read more 

Hard to account for what's been paid or not because we don't see our paychecks anymore.. But I see my last May 31st paycheck today, and a good amount of pay that must be 1.5x month's pay. Does anybody know if this is correct? Did Intel just pay us... — read more 

The only bright spot for Intel will soon be gone. China the largest market and most restrictive will soon start working on ARM on severs. You can bet China ain't going to any closed x86 architecture and with Qualcomm help once they adopt soon AWS... — read more 

Heard GMC leaders were meeting last Friday to set priorities for coming program and project cuts. Anyone heard what's coming?

Yes, ICs are generally g7+ and when I look at who went in our department there was a strange lack of managers on the hit list. Plenty of ICs / Senior Engineers. Could it be that the managers protected the other managers and threw the workers to the... — read more 

http://www.wsj.com/articles/lenovos-net-profit-rises-80-but-revenue-falls-as-pc-demand-slows-1464256742

It must be very hard to get promotion once you are Principal Engineer. Any PE who got SSL3 in focal? Are non PE's usually picked up for being SSL3 candidate?

Any program or project cuts for inefficiency in HR ? With the dumbest, unwanted, rejected, unproductive people of Intel ending up in HR... Intel HR also appears to be safest place to be during ACT.

Saving Intel is not a trivial task. The best they could come up with is IOT,5G,cloud. although I am skeptical this new vision will save the company, but I can't come up with a better alternative. Yes layoff sucks, and yes employees are angry, yes the... — read more 

Guys, CEO approval by employees carries significant weight in board's decision of leadership change. A few weeks ago, I called for everyone at Intel to review your job at glassdoor and give BK and poor approval rating. BK's approval rating now stands... — read more 

With stonewalling from HR/management, refusal to disclose criteria for firings and senior executives giving themselves fat pay and retention bonuses in the middle of it?

I accepted over a week ago, and so far, radio silence from HR.

Still no idea what will happen with those sites. Any news?

Honestly Intel has turned out to be a business from hell. Corporate BS. I worked alongside BK many years ago when all he was , was a geeky prevented Engineer. Leaders take ownership for their mistakes. The downfall of a Intel, is not due to the... — read more 

Since we can never return to working at Intel, do most of you just simply throw away those Intel project/team shirts and award plaques that you have received?