Thread regarding Intel Corp. layoffs

@1pnb
Just wait until you see all the new "security" measures being put in place.

“Lately, Intel has turned into a place of ultra-excessive micromanagement. They keep repeating the excuse of ‘we have to hold everyone accountable’, but in reality, it feels like constant surveillance. With all the layoffs and so-called restructuring of upper management, nothing really changed — the same people stayed, just with new titles and in many cases higher pay.
Meanwhile, hourly employees are the ones carrying the weight. Now we’re required to badge in and out for everything — breaks, lunch, arriving, leaving — and we’re reminded every day that even the smallest mistake could get us fired.
It’s a toxic environment where fear is used as control, instead of trust, respect, and recognition for the people who actually keep this company running.”

i joined intel last septemeber straight out of my grad school. My manager says pinching words and humilates me very often. I work for front end dry etch.

I couldn't even comprehend what toxic culture meant in my dacade of career until I joined intel.

Intel's culture is broken and toxic. Bad management, backstabbing, finger pointing and politics are rife. A lot depends on your manager and team. And that could change in an instant. As a result, people are insecure and tense.

There’s a lot of butt stabbing in the USA sites

People, Americans more so, seem to internalize the workplace. Make it personal.
Couple that with the constant smoke blowing up the a-s and telling everyone how great they are, I believe this is what drives the stress and pressure. If you pump folks so far up they start to like the smell of their own farts, they will start to take things much more personal.

Sure, there some a-hole managers out there, but I believe that is a minority.

Different region different business unit different culture. Software engineering vs manufacturing? Nothing same except the company name

Toxicity can also be subtle and insidious. Your coworkers aren’t going to announce to you that they’re starting a backstabbing campaign to ensure you get the next ISP and they don’t

Bless you OP for being innocent of such tactics

My experience has been a mixed. When I joined Intel 15 years back ( straight out of college), I had an amazing team, challenging work and good management. I learnt a lot and enjoyed my time working. Then...my immediate manager left. My teammate became my manager. He found out I earned more than him. Well...all he-l broke loose and I had to find a different job at Intel. That began my 5 year journey in three different teams, each toxic than the other. I never used to believe when I read complaints about bullies at work, micro management, groupism at work etc because the only work experience I had was at Intel and with a great team. Those 5 years thought me how horrible environments could be, I became more compassionate about others who complained about these stuff, more importantly I stopped making work front and center of my life. Work was no longer tied to my identity. It was just a means of making money and nothing more.

I had to change the job again to escape from the toxic environment and ended up in an amazing team again. I have been in this team from last five years and it has been great ! Yes...workload is more but I never minded that. It is fun again.

I really hope Intel survives and emerges victorious again. However, the level of toxicity in some teams is insane which drives out good people I have seen so many people whom I looked up to leave for competitors and the quality of workforce has declined. Unless we fix these issues, the chances of turning around are slim..

I've worked with the most professional, skilled, hard-working people at Intel. The stress and hours have increased. Being on more global projects, having meetings late at night and then again early the next morning is tough. But I've never worked in a toxic environment. I discovered this forum because of the recent lay-off announcement and have been surprised reading the negative comments. I have chosen to accept the generous ERP and have several, outstanding coworkers who have done the same. We will be proud of our experience at Intel and are planning to be long-term stock holders, hoping the future employees and decision makers will be innovative, productive, and determined to help Intel succeed.

Don't know what your region is but in Ireland most of us feel the same as how you're describing the US folk.

A great place to work if you like working in a semiconductor factory that hasn't been upgraded for 20 years or more and every time you ask for an upgrade they ask why spend extra money.

A part of me wants to say that of course you can evaluate the US because we’re going to be in a teams meeting on Monday (your Tuesday) and we won’t even recognize each other unless we bring a good challenge/response, say,

Have you had any good Groveian conversations lately?
I always bring the relevant data

But a part of me wants to say that if your site hasn’t laid off > 25% of the population cumulatively in actions over the last decade you really don’t know what it’s like at a site that has…

As a US employee it’s really been a mixed bag. Coworkers have always been wonderful (including y’all overseas). Some bosses have been great and all about career development too. Deadline and workload related stresses have ramped up constantly with a big crescendo under Pat. I stand by the joke:

Intel 2014: Great Place to Work
Intel 2019: Place to Work
Intel 2024: Place

It's not as bad as some people make it out to be.
A lot of people are just venting, saying things that are exaggerated sometimes.
For the most part, lack of job security is top of mind for a lot of folks.
This causes anxiety, thus the type of posts you see on here are overly pessimistic.

Does intel have a future? Sure, as long as we continue to execute.

Intel seems to be experimenting a lot in different areas these days. If someone is hungry to learn in those areas, it seems like a good place to work for. But on his board, it seems people just want Intel to ship a CPU design off to TSMC.

Best job I’ve ever had.

I’d be surprised if 10% of the people that post on here actually work(ed) for Intel.

Lots of haters here. Arrow Lake doesn't look bad. I still believe in Intel to recover.