"Lay off an engineer from Oregon and replace them with someone from India for 1/5 the salary and expect the same work"
- CEO logic
Of course, anyone who's worked with an engineer from India knows that's not true.
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OP says this like it is a bug and not a feature.
Just wait till AI (and a mere couple of years later humanoid robotics) are able to learn your engineering or technical role.
There will be a period of adjustment while you train your replacement, then Intel becomes headcount light, with a fraction of the people it previously needed. Most of those people will be new hires who took the time to learn how to manage and improve the automation that AI and the robots need.
AI shows it can do the job and the clock is ticking on your continued employment.
Then you will become an obsolete part.
Don't let Down Vote Bot hear you talking. It's on full force over at the Dell layoff.com postings.
Not in India, but there are still many places where you can hire engineers with much better skill/salary ratio than in the US. The fact that we still have large number of employees there is a sign of Intel's weakness, it doesn't make sense. The only exceptions should be for absolutely cream of the crop people, of which we have hardly any left, and relatively small number group working on US Gov projects where US citizens are necessary. Everyone else should be gone, probably like 80%
I saw reference to Def Met. Are they okay?
@dy the will rebook them
If only OP were an engineer, then he would be a spare part.
Fab Techs, on the other hand, are merely consumables.
When AI and/or robotics can replace people companies will gladly do it. The machines don't complain, work continuously, and deliver consistent results. Any employers best dream come true.
Trust me ..no one is replacing you with someone in India. These jobs are lost forever.
I don't believe OP realizes he is an easily replaceable spare part.
Intel engineers are the best in industry. Especially def met.
HVM sites are overstaffed, Charities...
We're all spare parts.
In the factory, if things are documented well, low level employees should be able to get the job done.
One of the long time issues in TD was degree inflation. To do technician work, you needed a bachelors degree. They had PhD's doing module repairs. Absolutely ridiculous.
Remote work can be done from India or China.
That’s just called being an Asian CEO. Nothing to see here.
Intel engineers are best in industry.
@OP
Or Penang engineers.
Cadence has great engineering. LBT only had to "fix" the business side. Intel is a different story altogether. This is no slam-dunk for the power forward
Evidence?
LBT led Cadence to an historic turnaround with a 25x increase in value.
This is a software firm where engineering quality is a first order concern.
Do you think he doesn’t understand the difference in engineering capability?
Good mangers know how to measure output and optimize for that. Get ready… Intel is about to be run like a real company with actual competition and not like a bloated monopoly like most of you are used to.
Because we essentially are. To them, we're less than spare parts, we're a necessary evil. The only reason they keep us around is because they haven't figured out how to replace us with something cheaper.