Don't.
You'd be walking into a deadend career. Manager doesn't care about your career growth and at review time would only tell you to keep doing what you're doing. Maybe even tell you to do stuff faster if he or she felt up to it.
Stay away. Far, FAR away unless you're an expert at kissing behinds because if you don't kiss up as much as others you'd be the first out the door when things go south.
Several years later (after the layoffs) and I work with this company and it's a fu----g abortion of a company. The put a CFO in the CEO spot and, guess what, everything went to sh-t because the only thing he knew to manage was the money. To those of you that got laid off, be thankful, this place is a fu----g shitshow now. The culture sucks. The management groups constantly stop us from getting employees or contractors that are worth a cr-p, and we're still desperately pushing to be relevant in some field but constantly lose our customers because we're behind by 10 years. I can't wait to find another job. Intel is a joke.
@yuz+16cWolJ6 The company fukt up and have to cut budget that's why I'm laid off you dumfuk
IF Intel is the only offer you have in your hand, take it... but keep applying for better jobs! It's easier to find a job when you already have one, and you're not giving off the desperation vibe.
And don't stay longer than 1 year.
I remember when a prominent professor leveled with me after my Intel offer that they had half a dozen students work for and all leave Intel. I was surprised and asked why..... "Boredom".
Grads from top schools usually have a huge intellectual appetite to chase new ideas and new horizons. At the same time they are weak when it comes to translating them into successful volume products - which requires a lot of organizational stewardship (not necessarily leadership), planning and schedule mania a some some political acumen to build bridges among diverse parties. Intel wants mindless drones who can spin one wheel, one cog and one screw in its gigantic process/ production mill among its rank and file hires. In this sense, the top graduates are poor fits for what Intel "needs". You could ask, how does Google do it then? After 25 years of maturity, Google is also a production mill; it has the intellectual edge to keep only a fraction of its top grads mentally alert and satisfied. A top pay like what Google offers will help the other numb their once super sharp faculties and shift their focus to raising their families.
Not justifying Intel's lack of appetite of leading edge work, but that is the honest reality. You hire these whiz kids from MIT and Stanford, pay them well too - they will die of boredom within 6 months at Intel.
I used to do hiring at Intel, the best from MIT, CIT, Stanford and other Tier 1 mostly laughed and passed on Intel onsite, those that came had unique circumstances that drove them to be interested or consider the Titanic.
There is no reason any smart and talented would / should come.
When you can’t attract talent at the bottom then what stink do you think gets to the top.
It is a FUBAR for sure top to bottom at the company and the BoD and CEO are clueless and to think Ann can fix development is laughable
The Focals used to "measure" performance have always been a joke. Terrible system used throughout Intel because it proves just how much managers do not know about the work their own employees are doing or are responsible for. Each employee writes their own performance review and the manager just rubber stamps (duh. I didn't know you did that). Then the feeble, ill-equipped managers bring the final review to their peers for acceptance or rejection. The peers make the final judgment how you should be rated, not your own manager. If they don't like you, it will seal your fate and your own manager will have agreed with them to save his own a**.
“Considering working for Intel” is probably not applicable at this point. Given the 20% drop in the stock price and the difficulties with 7 nm, they aren’t going to be hiring much.
There are good jobs at Intel. And consider yourself fortunate if you have one of those jobs with good coworkers, good customers, and a good management chain. Just keep in mind that you are always one reorg away from a horrible job and a frozen-hiring situation that will prevent you from escaping your new hell and finding something better internally. Given this, you should nourish those skills that can help you find an external job if that becomes necessary.
Anybody who thinks taking a job at Intel is mistake has not been in the job market for a while. A job at Intel is going to be better than any non-tech company position with the same title, and Intel is not a bad place to be compared to many other tech companies. While the author of the post may hate working for the manger they have, that does not mean the whole company is a dead end for a careers. Clearly Intel has a bunch of poor managers and poor employees, but the vast majority are high quality and the variety of positions and career paths one could take are enormous.
Maybe it is just time for this person to find a new career elsewhere instead of blaming others or even the company for what is not working in their work life.
This year's job market will be so tight, one would be glad to have an offer at all.
If you're already there then, well, good luck