I used to be proud that I got a job here, but today I’m considering whether to try to get a job with a competitor. I would love to hear your opinion on whether Intel is moving in the right direction when it comes to competing against either Nvidia or AMD. Is Intel effectively competing against our direct competitors?
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Red tapes and top-heavy organizational structures in Intel will ki-l your talent and the ability to grow fast.
Most of the people that are happy because they found a spot where they don't have to do the real work and meeting all day long. If you can find the sweet spot for all hat and no cattle, and you are satisfy with that, why not. But it will hard your future careers for not building a strong foundations.
Chip design should go to any of the fabless as you get to work at growing companies with access to technology and ecosystem far more advanced than Intel.
Chip manufacturing is generations behind and slaving away with no chance of returning to relevance. Either work equally hard at the leaders or go to a far easier lagging manufacture.
Any other function, why in your insane mind would you work at a company going the way of IBM unless that is what you want.
Do you live in a cave in Afghanistan?
Intel is behind on many fronts.
By far the biggest problem is lagging behind TSMC and so all competitors get a process advantage over Intel. ALL of them!
Apple, Nvidia, AMD, Qualcomm and new comers like Amazon, Microsoft, Google and Facebook and many small startups.
Now everyone has access to leading edge fabs.
Hard to compete when you are in a process node disadvantage against much bigger, much more well funded, smarter (money buys better engineers) competitors.
Don't walk away, run away from Intel.
I would look closely at the quality of the management at the company you are considering. On average, Intel does quite poorly in that regard and it is why so many employees are unhappy.
AMD used to be a fourth or less of Intel's market cap just 3 years ago and now has exceeded Intel a few times over the past month.
I thought that Pat would come in a shake things up for the better, but it seems like he's more interesting in becoming Chief Cheerleader Officer doing interview spots with 60 Minutes or Chief Begging Officer for taxpayer subsidies. Jensen and Lisa got their respective companies on a tear and the market rewarded them and their employees handsomely.
What can you say about Intel stock in the past 20 years? Intel's peak was back in 2000. Ever since the dot-com bust, it never got back to where it was.
If you are a competent engineer, do the math. If you had $10000 and you invested it all in either AMD, INTC, or NVDA back in 2015, when Intel still had process technology leadership and you just held it to the present day, how would you have now?