Thread regarding Intel Corp. layoffs

OP here, I took the time and found a better gig. More money (but I’d have taken a pay cut for something interesting). intel s—s, especially 1st level back-stabbing POS management. Take your time, deliver excuses, and find a new job... let intel pay for your escape.

Not anymore.

With the new way focal is done, there’s a lot of favoritism. If you aren’t in your boss’ inner circle,
you’ll be out of luck for good assignments or raises.

I worked at Intel quite a few years ago. I did really well because I could do what they expected of me in one day per week and spent the other four days doing extra things. I ended up innovating in numerous areas and getting lots of kudos. Now for the downside of taking on more. Other people in my group didn’t like the attention I got so there were several that would actively try to sabotage me. This was driven by their 15% get slowers while I was there.

I was working in one of their side groups so in my 1st year I worked on 5 projects, all started and stopped. Since we weren’t a bread winner group, we just wasted company money. Upper management only cared about acting like they were working on the next great thing. Our group burned through about $1 billion with zero revenue to show for the effort. They group got shut down about 2 years after I quit.

My colleagues are great. They are dedicated, technically and socially capable, communicate well, are super-easy to work with, and they're great people!

My management is ripe with delinquents, con artists & swindlers. They routinely concoct & falsify reports to their management, and our customers. These people are rat-fuukers.

Intel was among the worst places I worked. It was toxic and as a relatively senior external hire it was clear within a couple of moths just how broken the company's culture, management and processes truly were. Dishonesty and lack of following through on commitments were commonplace. My manager and SLM lied frequently and it was clear that they were both just working to appease internal leaders rather than actually accomplish anything. Just a waste of everyone's time. I'm glad I'm out of there but still processing how strange and bad it really was.

When Murthy came in from a fabless company that was the time intel started to lose things.
He knows nothing about how to lead a fab but only how to design. With that mindset and layoffs it k–led the mindset of employees who actually focused on innovating.
Murthy knows only about outside vendor design tools and nothing more than that. This k–led the innovation among inhouse tools and led the teams to focus individually on their deliverables. This led them to look for and rely on outside tools.
With the layoffs the fab innovating mindset got off the track and it allowed tsmc to grow.

Being at intel, Murthy literally had an opportunity to be like google & microsoft ceo's but since he is hired outside from intel he is not empathetic to the company and never understood the fab. he never had a plan to lead fab so that it can compete with tsmc or samsung.

When Murthy was hired, i felt like either Intel design or Intel fab will spun off but it never happened(i didn't knew everything is connected to the CEO and fab leaders had any say in the board meetings).

hope people here understand what i am talking about :-)

12 years ago, and nope. It looks nice on the resume, but my role now pays way more, is more engaging, and as a bonus no more shark-tanking it with the R&D groups like I had all that time ago.

24 years at Intel and I am now retired. Started as an hourly employee and ended at a grade 10 senior manager that managed multiple eng. Global teams. The good...

• you own your own career. If you need a skill to compete it's on you to learn, Intel will facilitate.
• compensation is on par with competitors.
• lots of opportunity to move around. This is key to advance at Intel. Moving around every two to three years is expected. They want you to influence other areas and let others influence yours to try and improve over all systems.

The not so good...

• - golden handcuffs are real and can be a large portion of your total compensation.
• you have to find a good manager that you can trust. Ultimately it comes down to a 10-minute conversation in focal on how well you do.
• over the last decade the market has dictated salary increases so make sure you start as high as you can.
• shifting headcount to low-cost geographies is a very real thing and why I went to managing 6 teams in the US, to one. I still managed the other five but they are now located in Costa Rica, Penang, Israel and India.
• the stress and long hours can take a toll. It's hard to remember that everyone comes to work each day trying to do the best job they can for Intel with such a dynamic work environment.

@zjib+14sOF0uA

So much this. The mass exodus of technically talented folks who quit because they couldn't get past gr8/gr9 while politicians get bumped up to 10/11 will be the death of the company.

Intel is set to produce little monster leaders, literally. If you get promoted then you know it. The way they elevate people is based on the capacity to sustain perception of ownership of some pet project, survival of the fittest, subjugating others until they give up trying or move out, winning some artificial metric despite all the negative ruthless aspects. There is no innovative project or care for true impact, just pretentious goals that end up going nowhere most of the time. Good people with less taste for blood leaves to better places, subjugate people just become the worst of the worst.

Nope not at all. When you are taking interviews at other companies it is hard to answer "why don't you just do that at Intel".... How do you say it's a horrible company with equally awful people, and it was the worst decision you have ever made to accept a job there. To be stuck in mediocrity surrounded by human scum.

I've been at Intel for over 25 years, but I'm so happy that I'll be leaving soon for another company. Intel is a very tough place to work for someone in software and it's gotten progressively worse over the years. My advice to software developers considering Intel is to keep looking.

I consider resignation daily

Biggest disappointment of my professional life without question

I retired from Intel, spending 32 years, in various groups. Intel is a Corporation, and like any big corporation, it is ruled by committee. Management direction and decisions can be confusing and difficult for group, department and individual goal setting. Personnel policies are developed and implemented, to benefit the corporation, not necessarily the individual. Management may co-opt individual innovation, and recognition for their own gain. R&R is a brutal process, which can be unfair, and skewed, favoring certain individuals over others. You are viewed as a cog in the Intel machine. To be fair, this is a widely held view by most companies in our industry. I’ve experienced this view at Epson, StorageTek and Maxtor. If you can’t fit in and hopefully find your own happiness, maybe a Start Up engineering environment would be more to your liking.

How did I survive and thrive at Intel?

1. I focused on designing technology innovation and creating process improvements.
2. I tried my hand at people management, but transitioned back to Individual Contributor. Doing this greatly reduced my stress level.
3. I focused on maintaining a healthy Work-Life balance. I was caught up early in my Intel career chasing the promotion, next raise, stock options, more control. Intel was happy to allow me to work 10 hour days, seven days a week, for months at a time. I added greatly to my stress levels, and poisoned my personal relationships. Don’t fall into this trap.
4. I moved into different groups and positions, every four to five years. I grew my experience in CPU and System design, pre and post Si validation, semiconductor reliability and quality testing and industry influencing, through participation in JEDEC point committees. Moving around, kept me viewed, by management, as a trending, not a stale or plateaued employee.
5. I took the VSP, when offered, instead of waiting and being forced out on an ISP.

It has been a few years since I worked there, but if Intel got rid of the stupid shark-tank R&D scheme and the infamous pool, it'd be worth a look.

Worked there for a couple of years, but left because of a better offer right after my R&D group was k–led off (and I also jumped because the whole networking-in-the-pool-because-the-3-month-clock-is-ticking-and-you're-now-competing-with-your-coworkers-for-those-jobs mentality was pure BS).

Would I go back? Depends. My job now is awesome, but if the pay were right and I didn't have to return to the R&D shark tank style BS means of doing things (if they even do that anymore), I'd certainly give it a go. Been over a decade, so things may have changed, but I would certainly be asking a lot of hard questions before accepting anything with 'em.

No. But honestly, Yes! I am still young and this is the biggest job I ever really had outside of military. But it's a really great place to work at. At least for me. Shifts vary, the worste things I have experienced working at Intel is from co-workers. Smh, man some people are way too competitive and need to chill the f— out. With me, we're okay, but there are some poeple I work with that are constantly arguing with eachother and at each others throats, especially now since the economic down turn. All just in hopes to secure there positions when they need to cut bodies.

I liked it better 20 years ago than I do now, but my observation is that your experience at Intel is about 70% what you do, and about 30% factors outside your control, such as your manager and corporate policies.

I realize Intel has made many unpopular decisions over the years, especially in regards to layoffs, the last major one was rather poorly handled. Also, the benefits of working for Intel are far less today than 20 years ago, and the bureaucracy has become very troubling.

However, if you enjoy the type of work you do, and can find a manager that you get along with well, working at Intel can be a very positive experience.

I also realize that being laid off is likely to make some take a more negative view of the company. Honestly, at this point, my biggest complaint is that wages are suppressed by use of H1B visas, which is an industry problem, not specific to Intel (though Intel clearly lobbies the fed for them).

You can’t fly like an Eagle when you are surrounded by turkeys.

Completely toxic, f'ing terrible.

I have replied 2 times on different days. Seems as if the mods are controlling the content to only show the negative aspects of Intel.

37 years working in numerous semiconductor manufacturers, as a technician, Engineer and Manager, National Semiconductor, Burr Brown, Texas Instruments and Intel. Intel has shown that they care about their employees more than any of the others. I wouldn't want to work at any other semiconductor company. Been at Intel over 23 years and will stay to continue our excellent products and advancements to the industry.

Then why don't you quit? You have got 7 years of Intel, pretty sure you will have a better job anywhere else with that kind of experience.

Not happy in my current gig.

Best company I’ve ever worked for. Been in the Semiconductor industry since 83. No company cares for their employees like Intel does. I imagine most of you that complain were let go for a reason.

So no one likes working for intel, or everyone does, or everyone is afraid to answer; or no on cares to answer. ;-) I think intel s—s but i’ll take the. check until they match my ip and send me in for re-education. ;-)

Ditto. Root cause is the people, the current situation has shown I would rather live under house arrest than be around Intel employees.