Maybe intel should have focused on innovation rather than diversity.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
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I was offered a job at intel with a total comp of over $300k and that was with no RSUs....apparently no longer giving out stock. My start date was to be July 15th. Needless to say I said no thanks. My position probably would have been reneged anyways. Friends joked that I should have taken it and maybe would have gotten laid off immediately and gotten 10 weeks severance, cobra and unemployment...lol
I'M A LEADER!! useless slogan that kept everyone busy with nonsense stuff bc HR wants to add value. This has steered Intel into doing nothingness bc we are all LEADERS so no one is doing real work.
Now this is a productive troll post. Very little effort in the original post and 40 replies including mine in less than 16 hours. BZ
It’s the opposite. One of Intel’s many problems is nepotism, lack of diversity. Just be honest with ourselves, many managers hire and promote only their fellow countrymen, be it Caucasian, Indian, Chinese, …
I'd just be satisfied with not going bankrupt.
No no we're pretty focused trying to beat TSMC (pretty hard) AND NVIDIA and even AMD. Focused 😂
@be Make Intel Work Again? I love it.
No sh-t Sherlock, the majority of new hires were all brainwashed.
@b4 It's not an either/or. Bad decisions from the leadership INCLUDE DEI. Why is that so hard to grasp? People on here act like it was EITHER DEI or bad management. Guess what, DEI IS bad management. It means you prioritize race, s-x, and gender over making the best product you can make.
@b2 no it has little to do with dei, and more to do with ceos making stupid as fu-k choices. Like saying no to making a cpu for the ipad
@b1 intel’s decline is a case study that proves to opposite, actually
@av they are more profitable. Many studies prove this.
@ In the early 2000’s I had a “technical female” who was a low performing engineer. HR wanted me to give her a pass because she was a woman. I asked myself “what would Andy do”. I had documented every incident of incompetence and minutes from our 1:1s. I also had 360 inputs too. It was extra work but I got her out.
For those who say correlation does not equal causation, you can't have it both ways. Intel kept telling us diverse companies are more profitable. Is that not causation??? Now that Intel has gone down the shiitter, we must assume it's from too much diversity.
@as Years ago there was a person on my team who was a complete slacker. Actually refused to do work, was disrespectful to managers, did poor work. Our manager went through the entire CAP process, wrote the person up multiple times, finally got to the point that they were going to be terminated. At the termination meeting, the person showed up with their "diversity representative", who informed the manager they could not be fired because they were part of an under represented minority. So they stayed employed and went on leave. Not sure what happened after that, but I never saw them again.
After I joined sometime in 2019, they literally told us during a meeting (when we were actually competitive, growing, and hiring) “$5000 bonus for successful referral, double that amount for woman or POC”
What is the focus there? How is that not a recipe for disaster? Get woke go broke!!!
@ac Nope, let's hire the best talent we can find regardless of gender or race (or who they prefer to sleep with). Yes, most of the leaders at Intel are CEOs, but they hire advisors who tell them they need to pander to whatever the latest DEI fad is. So instead of merit-based hiring, performance reviews, and layoffs you end up with people who were hired because they tick one or more diversity boxes. And those people are much more difficult to fire when they under perform because they're from "underrepresented minority groups."
@ak cost saving measures and engineering excellence are diametrically opposed.
The results speak for themselves
@ak You do have a good point. Asians are more than 50% of the engineers in the U.S., and that is the cause for Intel's lousy performance. They are oddly overrepresented and the results show.
OneIntel
Company is doomed once hitting a critical mass of street po----g h1bs
@a2 robert noyce, andy grove, gordon moore… ever heard of them? When intel was on top before h1b started and gained traction after 1990
This isn't even the case. From a DEI perspective Indians are considered Asians, and Asians are over represented in engineering.
So getting someone with an advanced degree from India is really a cost saving measure rather than a DEI one.
I left via VSP in 2015 and have my badge with the previous corporate values. This Kumbaya One Intel and change of values did not help the company. I’m glad to have escaped after 25 years. I barely recognized the place anymore.
Unfortunately, Intel is caught in a death spiral of its own making.p, like when a star begins fusing elements to make iron. Game over.
Intel is the semiconductor industry equivalent to Temu.
In the 2000s, Intel was seen as a sought after place to work. An offer from Intel was gold for a college graduate. Now Intels reputation has spread around and only those who cannot get an offer from some better place will join Intel if they don’t have anything else. I know a couple folks who had offer from Intel and somewhere else and declined Intel. Intel is no longer getting the best.
Why post just to provoke people?
Yes let’s bring back all the white boys. Make Intel Great Again (MIGA)
Funny that all Intel CEO/CFO/CTO/CPO/HR are all white and always been white. Correlation?
@a2 Because it IS a major issue. Intel dumps tons of money into diversity programs, hires based on DEI quotas rather than merit, and actively works to replace experienced engineers with RCG DEI hires who have to learn the job. When you have a company run by people who think DEI should be a priority over projects, technology, and skill, you have a recipe for failure.
and the caucsplaining continues…
@a2 not true. Intel's process tech was basically sc--wed by this Indian dude hired from QualComm. He promised a lot and delivered nothing, I believe that's the key of intel's downfall. If intel's process tech maintained its leadership, it would have maintained its share in PC and DC.
@a7 correlation /= causation. You should have learned that in school
Results don't lie, Indian migrants have destroyed this company. As the number of Indian engineers went up, Intel went down. Intel was once a great American company at the number 1 spot but has been dragged down to the slums of Mumbai to number 15 spot.
yup. they need to go back to what worked. This DEI and LGBT bullsh-t needs to fu-k off
One joke.
@a2 Because the fabs are full of unskilled middle aged white dudes who are trying to coast to retirement after being hired as DEI picks because they’re veterans. They’re scared that being closer to the wafer isn’t making their worthless as--s any safer.
@OP for real - when did this company become a jobs program for the third world? We hired so much bad talent in 2021/22 bo-m it was honestly insane
@OP all of the CEOs who made poor decisions were white men. I don’t know why so many people are focused on diversity as the issue