Intel HR is often overlooked as to how it enables incompetent managers throughout the company. HR managers only do one thing, suppress investigations and lie bringing down entire culture of the company. Many managers have just learnt that HR is a tool when needed to lie cheat and engage in fraud… (look at delays, se-ual harassment cases filed recently)
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Sandra was terrible. Her entire leadership team needs to be replaced. All terrible HR leaders.
HR is a reflection of corporate leadership and culture. And Intel culture is broken.
probably for the same reasons that STEM majors make such good managers
Why is HR full of STEM majors? Wouldn't that be like hiring business majors to design CPUs?
HR reports to CEO, for the CEO
Completely agree. My professional experience with HR departments has been unpleasant. HR exists to protect the company, not to protect the rank-and-file. The company is automatically liable should it be demonstrated that a manager has acted inappropriately by demoting, firing, or otherwise impacting an employee's job situation. Hence, HR will protect managers, including the incompetent and malicious ones.
It’s not just toxic managers that get protected. In one instance, an incompetent IC that piggybacked on other people’s work while never delivering anything on his own was tagged for a lower grade (probably a BE). The IC opened a harassment claim and HR ultimately had the manager back off. The last time I checked the useless IC made it to PE status.
Intel needs some better BS detection tools, because those that are work-incompetent but good brown-nosers seem to always come out smelling like roses.
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Insights/Focal are the reason for all the stupid things you see around you. Managers building empires, silos, "not invented here" syndrome and lack of re-use, ridiculous processes, impossible schedules, being told to write papers or take classes when you're hopelessly behind, etc.
Whenever you see something d-mb just think it backwards and figure out how it was spun as a positive on somebody's Insights, even though an alternative would be MUCH better for the company. It's never difficult. That's how Insights drives bad behavior.
When I was an RCG a wise mentor told me a nugget of 100% truth. "Re-use has never gotten anybody an Exceeds. Build from scratch every time, then sell it as the next coming. Even if it's a steaming pile". They weren't wrong, it works.
How does insights drive bad behavior if it increases the cadence of feedback from yearly to quarterly? It documents improvement items that you and your manager should’ve agreed were things you could work on.
HR and insights are the top 2 drivers of all bad behavior - and HR is responsible for insights. Unfortunately, the damage may already be fatal
They allow bullying in the workplace and super toxic work environment. I know from personal experience.