Watching things unravel has been really depressing. It’s hard to see a place you cared about slide into chaos. I keep hoping something will happen to give me hope things will be fixed, but instead, everything keeps getting worse. Every day it feels like Intel drifts further from what it used to be. I don't understand people who find joy in this. I certainly don't.
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It was all a scam the last decade
What @a4+1k2w250hk said is very true. Most good companies now have Intel veterans that left long time ago before the rats took over the ship. We don't touch intel people with a barge pole, not an immediate reject, but a quick screen will show they didn't get to where they are in merit.
Zod Zod Zod
I only worked here for a few years, I was hoping I could retire here like all the others who stay with the company for 20, 30 years.
I have very good skill set, always be the top performer of the team, meet very good managers. Although teams kept reorg, projects got canceled, coworkers got CPMed or left by themselves.
I have a meaningful project to work on now, also decent pay, I will stay with the company until it shuts down or let me go.
@a4 yes we will AMD loser
I don't believe OP ever worked for Intel.
@OP
I also loved my job for 30+ years up until 2018. I saw a lot of writing on the wall with serious design flaws, 5yrs of major product delays, and directly in my group with outright nepotism. Family members reporting to family members and a general lack of following the best path to solve problems and mfg design flaws. Shoveling major problems off to VF. I gladly took my exit in July of 2024. It's still sad to see.
Me too but don’t get fooled. It is over. They will do a few more “this will turn things around!” stunts. But it over. They know it. We know it. Rest of world knows it. Don’t get tricked into false hope.
Yes there are people who built their wealth staying with Intel for a decade or two or even three. So what? I don’t blame them. It is what it is. If I could retire by staying for a few years or for another decade, I would. Not everyone has to find meaning in their day to day work. Work is work, as long as it pays the bills.
@OP So you're telling me there might be a chance?
Yeaahhh!
Intel’s success was built on a monopoly position. You were living a lie.
The biggest problem staying at Intel is you stop learning and working on challenging and relevant products.
Yes you will get a paycheck every 2 weeks. But you work with people that are not even slightly motivated, do not care about career skills or helping anyone, no knowledge share, products that stopped being relevant 10 years ago or are so far behind our competitors its not even a minor success. And on top of that we have VPs, Directors, FLM, Sr. PEs and PEs who think they need to be respected and talked to in a certain way because they think they earned their titles while doing nothing to get there but having friends who promoted and kept these losers.
Soo many to name in the Tiber AI Cloud I was part of for 2 years and it has been dismantled by corrupt people and poor vision. This product had no chance to succeed but they ran with it thinking they can get people to use Gaudis over Blackwell and Hoppers. Our Management was soo toxic that it oozed insecurity.
Nothing lasts forever.
Everyone's got to learn to move on.
Rome , the British East India company, Nokia were once legends in their time.
I'm sure Tesla, Microsoft, Amazon will fall one day too.
People find joy in Intel's current situation like others find joy when a bully gets beat down. I remember a time when a general managers openly sited "hubris" as the reason for Intel's downfall. Too many profited from Intel's success without contributing commensurate progress of their own.
Unfortunately, those are the ones still at Intel. They are the directors and fellows who don't know what to do next because they spent their careers up selling "gamechangers" and "paradigm shifts" without real accountability. Don't get me wrong, there are good people trying to save whatever is left... but they are outnumbered it's hard to tell who's who.
Their time has come but even if they're branded with failure, they've already made their 10 million. They've paid off their houses and their rental properties. Their kids are graduated from college. And the worst part... these people will end up with a better situation than most of us no matter how Intel fares.