Many dread incompetent new colleagues, who are not to blame for Intel hiring them. However, I rarely hear that someone is willing to help them and share their knowledge with them. It used to be that way. When I first came here, I had a great colleague from whom I learned a lot.
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Samir Pandya you fu-----d
@4ziz. Multiple times I have asked PEs how sub systems need to be designed and function. Multiple times I hear back some advanced senior level text book idea. Would I be asking in the first place if I hadn't tried the most basic idea first? They don't want to hear it so maybe they would actually be liable if they gave me a useful tip and it didn't work? Some of the stuff I have fixed has astonished me with how it was in its current state. Then you fix somthing someone else did at the very last minute and get negativity for being late and "how you handled it." It works both ways buddy. Fun times.
OP was asking if existing workers share knowledge with a new hire. Some groups have actually a plan to train new ones, or at least a buddy system. The good plan would be a couple of colleagues involved to train a new hire in different areas. Some other groups just leave a newbie to himself, “if you have any questions, please ask around.” He might not know what he does not know to start with.
@1cdu+1c31VqFD basically nailed it.
In general, sharing knowledge isn't a problem. But everybody is so busy talking that nobody listens. That goes double for entitled RCG's (not all, but many). I can't count the number of "I don't need help - how do I do this - you're wrong, I'll do it my way - why didn't that work?" sequences I've had. I don't mind people asking, but freakin listen if you ask.
If the merit system works as intended, giving and sharing knowledge to build a technically strong team is very much desirable. This works fairly well in older Intel days.
Nowadays, high profile projects are swarmed by clueless leads who constantly leech information and knowledge from you. It's detrimental that projects are ran by talkers who knows nothing and genuine tech leads are reduced to the substitute bench to milk for information, while going nowhere in the TLP.
The Culture does not reward knowledge sharing. Until they do, guard what is yours. They don’t say “individual contributor” for nothing
Your mistake is thinking knowledge even matters at Intel. That is incorrect. You just need to run your mouth louder than everyone else.
Knowledge should never be shared. Because once you do, it’s gone.
Knowledge is power. Don’t share it.
No sharing is required. Just Google up the correct question and anyone can pretend to be an expert at Intel!
lol information hoarding is a classic tactic at Intel. I've moved on to another company and while their are politics as well, no where NEAR the level of inter-group fighting, sabotaging, and wielding info as power as there was at Intel. You have to understand a lot of the older employees, grade 9+, know they can't survive outside at another company. So protect what little they know to make themselves seem irreplaceable.
In theory yes, sharing knowledge makes work place more efficient and desirable. That is what you see in the movies or read in books where everybody in the workplace are hugging each other and holding hands.
In reality it is the total opposite. If you share your knowledge with someone, you don't know if they will take what you shared with them and play the politics to climb the ladder and get you kicked out. I have worked in a few tech companies and everybody is hiding what they know, I had to fight tooth and nail to learn and gain new skills. Look for yourself, nobody cares about you, trust me on this. Good luck!
This is one of the most constructive posts I’ve seen on this website. While layoffs do not encourage this behavior, everyone is worse off when people do not share knowledge.
I’ve never seen many issues sharing knowledge. People seem happy to.
But it often falls on deaf millennial ears. That, or you train your replacement
at Intel sharing knowledge and outlook invites are weapons to be carefully deployed only to boost loyalty to the ruling cliques
I agree...
Isnt teaching someone what they need to know to perform their task the best way to make them independent ?
the best complements I ever got were "your a great mentor" or "you helped me so much" etc...