Intel's focus stopped being innovation, amazing new products, or being a great place to work years ago. There is only one goal these days - and that's to look good to investors and shareholders. The best way to achieve that is by continually lowering costs, which is most efficiently done through layoffs. None of the previous goals fit into that. That's how we got the bastardized version of the company we have today.
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PG as well as his predecessors promoting diversity
you can take note on CPO appointment and others
but could that be improved over time by reshuffling his leadership?
he will be failing on mid level management issue
As much as I'm rooting for PG, I don't see how he can remove all the rot
from the management structure.
Don't expect it to happen. PG hastened, facilitated and encouraged exactly
the same rotten structure during his vmware tenure.
It's not merely bloated management structure, it's also all the bad/unqualified/incompetent people in management, making poor decisions with no accountability. These bad decisions have ripple effects up and down the org/product, and so much time is wasted by the IC to workaround/alleviate/compensate for these brain dead decisions. Think about all the managers, from FLM to VP, who have been hired/promoted during the BK/BS years, and it's obvious why we can't deliver competitive products on time. As much as I'm rooting for PG, I don't see how he can remove all the rot from the management structure.
I agree with the OP, but it doesn't explain why Intel continues to maintain a bloated management structure. The cuts to satisfy the shareholders come almost exclusively from the IC ranks - the ones who contribute the most to the bottom line.