I have a colleague who moved to our team from within Intel, about 2.5 years ago, and the whole situation has been frustrating from the start. Since he was new, he wasn’t assigned any key responsibilities, so he spent most of his time skiing at Mt. Hood. Then, he had a kid and took a week of ad-hoc leave, leaving me to cover his projects and daily logistics work—none of which is enjoyable.
Shortly after, “Lord Gamer” decided to take 2 months off (~8 weeks) out of his 12-week bonding leave. He returned, barely worked for a week, and vanished again for another week. After that, he was back for 4 weeks, only to take another 3 weeks of bonding leave, and he repeated this whole cycle again! He contributed next to nothing for the entire year, leaving me and a junior colleague to handle all the logistics and cover his projects.
And this is just within LTD. From what I’ve heard, the situation is even worse outside of our division. It’s no surprise that we’re struggling as a company. I can’t imagine this kind of behavior flying at TSMC, NVIDIA, or Apple—he wouldn’t last more than a couple of quarters with that kind of nonsense.