Thread regarding Intel Corp. layoffs

Here is another shining example of what happens when someone with zero technical/engineering background tries to run a technology company - Carly Fiorina @HP. Look up her bio - bachelor's in medieval history and philosophy! She ran HP into the ground before she was finally kicked out.
MJH will end up the same way as RJ (of McAfee fame), but she will cost Intel lots of $$$ before that happens.

What are sale engineers studying in the US? I see quite a few of those engineering title at car dealership.

Maybe for her to be the CEO of Intel, she needs to understand the entire company. In essence, Intel should be an engineering focused company enhanced by marketing.

Tim Cook is an ENGINEER.
Look it up.

He earned a Bachelor of Science degree with a major in industrial engineering from Auburn University in 1982

You don’t create a high precision high volume complex global supply chain by being a dumfvk.

@1pqt+1rwTU0sZ

BK was not an engineer...much as he liked to make others think he was.
Proving the point that engineers are needed to make things great again.

Excerpt from his Wiki page
BK is from Santa Clara County, California.[5] He graduated from San Jose State University in 1982 with a bachelor's degree in chemistry

"@iyp+1rwTU0sZ So is she gonna travel around with experts and a vast group of technical people just to be able to deal with and answer questions from tech-savvy customers?"

What an absolute tool. To assume that MJ can't answer questions from tech savvy customers is absolutely crazy. S-xist as well.

But that's all mediocre white men can do. Blame everyone else for their mediocrity.

Engineers that think the only people capable of managing anything are engineers is hilarious and pathetic.

Ah yes. See the only possible people on earth to lead a company are engineers. Engineers are smart and savvy and understand business and make only the most rational and best decisions.

This is why Brian Krzanich, uber engineer, will go down as the greatest CEO in the history of Intel, and possibly in the history of business!

CCG is the only group doing its job and if it wasn't for them the rest of the company would be dead. But sure, let's sh-t all over her because she worked in sales and marketing at one point.

Engineers are the most short sighted and d-mb people on earth.

This is not much different than yet another id--t diversity "two in the box" CEO with BK. She was RJ, who now is at Ampere.... she was responsible for the $7 billion boondoggle called McAfee, which Intel later sold off for a loss of billions.... but gotta have DEI no matter what! People like MJ or RJ would not last a day under Jen Hsun Huang @ NVDA. A lot of the grade 9+ Engineering staff is also DEI... pushed up into those spots regardless of ability. So we continue to circle the drain..... the people who had any tech. skills are long gone - working at AMD, NVDA etc. I'm waiting for someone of the likes of AMD or NVDA's CEO's to say Intel should "shut down and give the money back to the shareholders"... just like Michael Dell said about Apple!

"She's actually one of the more decent human beings within the Intel management snakepit."
we have plenty of decent people around
that sounds like a great requirement for a priest
but don't we want a smidgen more ability for chip makers
what's next, are we going to bring in Burger King managers to lead other departments

"Tim Cook is just riding the gravy train."
Apple makes its profit by using cheap labor in China.
All of us have the skill to run a plantation.
He is not Heisenberg.

Tim Cook is just riding the gravy train. What innovative tech has come out since? The closest thing is the stupid headgear that everyone else is working on and has little practical use...

You failures who come here can be next VP? Do you know how many top companies have CEOs from non engineering background? Tim Cook?

It takes different personality to be VP and CEO, engineers can be one of them but not a must have skill.

@iyp+1rwTU0sZ So is she gonna travel around with experts and a vast group of technical people just to be able to deal with and answer questions from tech-savvy customers?

Michelle is actually the EVP GM of CCG for prob the last two plus years. She was head of SMG (marketing) prior to that. Michelle doesn't have an engineering background, but as long as she can defer the technical stuff to someone competent, it doesn't matter. She's actually one of the more decent human beings within the Intel management snakepit.

But diversity

Fat cats cannot dance
How come it can lead
Don't just be bullsh-t
Lay off then lay on

It’s been mentioned somewhere before. She has to do the song and dance number to sell the scraps of DEG to external buyers.

We’ll see what happens but I don’t see why Michelle would want to run whatever bits of DEG are left after moving most teams to CCG and DCAI. Sounds like a big step down for the most successful BU leader.

Is Intel going to sell itself ? I saw this person name sold a lot of Intc stocks.

@kvq+1rwTU0sZ Yeah, but aren’t there OTHER women at Intel that are actually qualified and do the job??? DEI all day long, all you want… but IMO there’s more to it… to keep picking Sandra and Michelle for these high-tech roles.

@epx spot on

An article from 2022 highlights why this is important to a DEI first company like Intel.

"Michelle Johnston Holthaus, Intel’s top sales and marketing executive, is taking over as head of the Client Computing Group, the chipmaker’s biggest moneymaker. The move means that Intel’s two biggest business units – CCG and the Datacenter and AI Group, which is led by Sandra Rivera – will be led by women."

if you are surviving with government money,
you can behave and look like the government
get ready to spend 500$ for a hammer