After six years of working here, I’m leaving behind a lot of legacy work. I love Intel as an American company, and while there were opportunities to go elsewhere, I chose not to. I once heard someone say that people who stay at Intel have no marketable skills and can only work at Intel. That might be partly true, but there are also people who stayed to help build, only to get laid off.
From what I see, you’ll be next. You’d better find another job before Intel becomes a case study in business schools. Our new CEO has zero strategy. He’s given us three videos in three meetings: the first one was great; the second was just a rehash of the first; and the third (the “100 days” update) was again the same message.
He kept repeating lines like “Be humble,” “Underpromise and overdeliver,” “Listen to customers,” "We can do more with few people.", "let's RTO", “Give me the bad news first”, and “I love sports,” always using the same basketball story. Okay, we got it. You repeated these so many times that they’ve lost all meaning. The only credit I can give you is that you are "consistent" in saying the same things!
The only real changes I saw were removing Intel’s stock price from the internal website and hiring his own friends as “talent.” No, he’ll get his millions and leave the sinking ship soon. No one can save Intel.
Our leaders seem to believe that if China attacks Taiwan, Intel will somehow win. That’s the kind of hope they have. Their other hope is that their friends at Dell, Lenovo, HP, and others will root for Intel and tell us what to do to succeed because they want a competitive market. But we are not competitive. Not even close! We are only competitive on PowerPoint slides!
My prediction is that Intel will end up making chips for things that aren’t cutting-edge, like TVs, washers, and dryers, or at best making chips for NASA and the Department of Defense by scaring them about “security.” Maybe “security” is the word Intel always uses to convince them to stay with us.
Anyway, I got laid off and found this site by searching “Intel layoffs”. I hope you all find a job soon. I’ve seen highly productive people getting laid off left and right, while those who relied on those productive people as their go-to stayed at Intel. If you have marketable skills, don’t stay at Intel. Find a better place to work, or start your own small business.
My last word: Your layoff is just your manager’s decision, not HR’s or anyone else’s. If they don’t like you, they’ll use this opportunity to officially mark you as “Not skilled” by noting those never-mentioned list of skills. Be upset if you need to, but don’t let one person’s opinion bring you down. It’s just that, one person’s opinion about you.