I quit in Jan '16 after 7.5 years in PTD. Intel was a great company but they are very bad at mentoring and cultivating future managers. Case in point is PTD where a good program manager was made a scapegoat for the 14nm delays and the main culprit... — read more 

Can someone explain what an ssl-3 is for those of us new to Intel?

I am new hire in mid 2015, from another company with 2yr experience after my master degree, should I be worried or getting prepared for interviews? First time seeing this layoff, totally freaked out! Many thanks!

My site is somewhere in ASIA... Guess!

..on the path to extinction

How about sparing us the crap about difficult decisions and losing sleep and treating the targets with dignity... only makes it more sickening. Also before talking about transparency and such BS why not try to get through all the top voted questions... — read more 

After today's BUM we're expecting some mix of VSP, performance cuts, and cuts from closure of relatively small satellite offices. To those who want VSP... golf clap, you've worked hard, enjoy the time freedom. To those who are separating due to... — read more 

SSL 4 and below last year and within last 3 years will surely be applied. But this only caught around 1K last year. Surely they will cast a wider net for ISP. The invitation-only VSP in 2012 was for all with SSL 3 or below for past 3 years but I... — read more 

So how are the people that got the ISP last year feel today? We were labeled as mediocre employees. Can't believe there were another 12000 mediocre employees left after our departure. Intel hires mostly mediocre employees, ha?

Grove has only been gone from this world for a very short time and already the vultures are moving in to tear apart his heritage. They are willing to use a tool, (layoffs), as a means to temporarily bolster stock holder confidence rather than wisely... — read more 

BK made it clear those that are not white males will not be touch in these layoffs, so fall you are safe if you are in this category.

http://dailycaller.com/2016/04/19/intel-lays-off-12000-people-after-lobbying-for-more-foreign-workers/

Hear some site will be closed. Which one?

This is as high is it's going to go for a long long time, now that fat ass- Murthy is at Intel. You'll see 15ish stock price soon. Similar to what he did to Qualcomm stock. But hey, someone's got to pay for all the doughnuts he shoves down his fat... — read more 

And 12000 employss layoff basically means its mostly 50 yr olds employees thats been there many yrs. They will each net $100Kx 12000 employees=$1.2B

Has anything changed? What are the rules?

What do we know? Different opinions in multiple threads? Can we consolidate info and agree in this thread?

I don't work directly for the factories (thank GOD...they SUCK...horrid cultures) but rather in corporate services. Most of my tenure has been on night shifts, which is like another world vs. days. Stress is only what you put upon yourself. As long... — read more 

Clears out the marginal performers and a path for those ready for retirement. Business has shifted significantly with PC market and mgmt. has balanced this decline with server business. Can only go so far before needing to take bigger structural... — read more 

After the very impressive and very well accepted Arduino boards LOL Intel is safe....

Now with Intel's ongoing disruption by ARM it is a competency or a company issue (do successful companies have annual firings?). I imagine firings/layoffs at AMD also started off as pure competency and gradually gained momentum until in the latest... — read more 

BK actually warned you of this just a few months ago. Remember what BK said last year in a quarterly update with employees when asked about using SSL as layoff criteria: "I know from my email people feel like they got caught or surprised, but this is... — read more 

It's hard but try to position based on this: BK's hot areas in PCs: 2-in-1 laptop-tablet hybrids, growing more than 10% per year Gaming PCs, growing at 10%/year Home gateways, TV set-top boxes, growth, Intel gaining market-share Non PC Growth:... — read more 

When I got laid off last year, my close family and friends told me that it would be a blessing in disguise and that the wheel would come full circle. As Steve Jobs once said - "you can only connect the dots looking backwards". I am so much happier in... — read more 

Feel free to pile on. Here is what we know so far about 2016 layoffs here at Intel: BK officially announced today that Intel will have 12K job cuts, overall cutting 10% of the global workforce – most of the cuts will be here in the States (I am... — read more 

This is the GOOD thing about getting the boot last June. They already have a seat on the job bus...those getting it this summer will have much much much more competition - some probably will never find another engineering job without moving to Texas... — read more 

http://www.cnbc.com/2016/04/19/intel-reports-q1-2016-earnings.html

http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-chips-are-down-for-intel-1460994580

Dear Murthy: Congratulations! On behalf of Intel Corporation (“Intel or the “Company”), I am pleased to offer you the position of President of Intel’s Client and IoT Business and System Architecture Group, reporting to Brian Krzanich, Intel’s CEO... — read more 

First and foremost ... I might get fired in the near future but I got nothing to loose... Reasons Intel is doomed in next 5 years 1) we are no more the innovative company; we had technological lead in minnurization. We are loosing the ground here 2)... — read more 

Wait long enough and BK will label you as a person of mediocre ability although you been rated as success forever. They will walk you out the door. You had enough warning from all of us during the last year but you still decided to stick it out. I... — read more 

First off, Qualcomm thanks Intel for picking this a--hole. He has zero leadership skills. Barks order without a whip in his hand. Glad this was not early 1900s! In Qualcomm, he drove everybody under him to a high stress corner needlessly. He doesn't... — read more