Reading that some of the layoffs are from jobs getting moved from the U.S. to lower cost sites. Those same lower cost sites have been getting new buildings, double digit % annual pay bumps, and more over the last few years. Is Intel slowly destaffing in the U.S.?
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Yes, mine got moved to low cost sites mainly in India, small section to Malaysia. How come Trump hasn't helped on any outsourcing of our high-paid jobs? I thought that's what he promised! Intel CEO, with a CFO background, hires all these non-Intel executives to Intel, and their jobs are not to make Intel products better, instead, just to make Intel costs lower, and I wonder what kind of products we will end up having in Intel. This practice of slowly moving jobs to low cost geo is very systematic and across many groups in Intel. For those who left, my recommendation is to prepare your skills and resumes and get really for your higher paid jobs outside of Intel!
I had to train Chinese engineers to do my job when they laid me off in 2018.
Yeah, sure. The "guest" workers do a fake it till they make it in the USA and Intel gets precious little value from them here in the US as well as low cost geos like India. In my experience the climbers come to the USA where they talk a good line or are part of the cabal. For every US job relocated to a low cost geo the company should be required to dismiss 3 H1b alleged engineers. The cycle where Intel fails to learn from experience is just another datapoint.
Short answer is yes. The more "routine execution" jobs are moving to low-cost geos. More specialized jobs (Architecture, uarch, Methodology, process definition etc.) would remain in the US. However, don't get too jealous of the lower cost sites either. The competition there is cut-throat and most jobs are disposable. There is no work-life balance whatsoever there. And the pay raises mostly cover inflation (to set the stage, inflation in India is at 7% compared to ~1.8% in the US).