Thread regarding Intel Corp. layoffs

optane is a joke. It never fulfilled the expectations

It makes me sad reading all these negative former employees cry and whine. Anyone who actually works at Intel knows that it is still one of the best companies in the world and we are eating the competitions lunch with Alder Lake. There will be a lot more cry babies when we release desktop graphics. Why are people still fixated on the company 10 years after being let go if it's such a bad place? Its like an old girlfriend where you keep driving by her place to see what cars are out front. Creepy! And sad.

I know that second line manager at NSG. Your description is very accurate. I always wondered what he said about me. Nothing good, probably.

Intel promotes empty talkers. Friends and family - Just look at the recent promos. All promos year after year. Fellows are some of the weakest technical people I have ever seen. TSLRP slide ware monkeys.

CEOs come and go. It is the same old system - talkers, meeting attendees, a-s kissers, friends and associates of the execs (just look at CSO, AXG, etc, I mean the software group). The same movie is played over and over again. BK’s friends and favorites, MiKe B’s friend, Aicha’s friends, Diane’s friends, Murphy’s friends… why because our HR and finance enable them. HR is the worst.

Promos, okrs, results - they are jokes. If you are manager’s favorite, you will be rewarded whether you produce anything or not. Results do NOT matter. If they did, Raja would not have been EVP, all SATG people would not have been promoted. Quite the opposite, most of these people would have been fired.

The issue is after years of promoting and protecting these useless talkers, now we are down to the D team in the upper layers. The market is good. Rats are leaving.

My worry is that easy money economy created this environment everywhere now, I am afraid what we see at intel - sh-t raised to the very top - exists everywhere during this bubble. That’s why some of our rats are landing cushy jobs at Microsoft (Sandra l. Vp at Microsoft now) , google, nvidia (Ahmad Z vp of engineering at nvidia), Lynn corporate vp at amd. etc. list goes on. I don’t know leaving to another tech is the answer. I don’t want to work in the same company with Sandra, aicha, Ahmad, Lynn….again etc. one is enough

Had a second line manager at NSG who was one of the two faced types that lured people in with a "nice old guy" act but would become a ruthless debaser in group meetings. He would also hire women onto one team and Indians into another to make them easier to dump on while getting the diversity numbers line up, an absolutely fascist management technique. He retired comfortably after Optane definitely worked and definitely revolutionized the industry and NSG definitely achieved their goal of $10B in revenue by 2020.

Purging the management ranks is long overdue at Intel. Most managers have far too few reports. This leads to too many layers in management, which in turn stifles information flow. And that is irrespective of the quality of the management - which is widely regarded as being poor.

Having performance metrics for all the positions that require zero talent.. spreadsheet jockeys. I e. Finance, business ops, HR, has been ki----g the real business. I just cut engineering costs 10 million and achieved my goal! You just ended up phucking everyone and making Intel lose billions.... And don't get me started on "local" talent that just bs their way thru college without learning anything. That's why they all end up going MBA.

Technical ability is a liability at Intel. It only makes you a target for theft and backstabbing. That is why Intel management and technical leadership is filled with politicians and fat-mouthed clowns.