This site is a testimony to what looks like a laundry list of personnel problems resulting in a toxic work environment.
- A lot of people feel like they don’t get what they deserve, you earn what you get so maybe…
- People think that their coworkers are lazy, it would be interesting to hear what they say about you
- DEI is perceived as the same old discrimination just with a new target group benefiting
- Management is incompetent, long history to support this claim…
- The company has execution problems, some management decisions and others people not delivering
- And on and on
Intel fosters these behaviors and then wonders why they have problems.
If I were a hiring manager at another company I would know about the layoffs happening in tech and would look for sites like this to get an idea of what happened with the people who are now applying for my jobs. After a short review of this site if I even considered former Intel employees the interview process would be geared toward determining how toxic the person could be to my work environment. Expect more behavioral questions and less technical questions. Have answers ready that don’t blame other people. Go to hiring sites like Indeed and download all of their potential interview questions and have an answer for them.
For those of you discussing quiet quitting or even no work until the layoff is complete, IMO you should be on the list. Worst case scenario, say 20% of the employees get let go. This means 80% still have their jobs. I doubt the numbers will be anywhere near that high. If you are not working and somehow make it through this round of layoffs your lack of work won’t go unnoticed and you will pay for it during performance reviews and will likely make the next round of layoffs. You chose to work here and you are still getting your pay and benefits. Live up to your end of the agreement. No one promised you a job for life. Intel is horrible about dragging these things out and it is stressful but live up to your commitment.
Intel will never have the market lead that it once enjoyed. The lead was arrogantly thrown away. The competition is not going away. This doesn’t mean that Intel can’t be a good company with lot of opportunity. When they let BS go as CEO they should have hired a true outsider to get a fresh prospective but instead they hired a former Intel employee who left when he didn’t get the CEO position when it was given to PO. Maybe this is a sign that the BOD should be replaced.
Good luck to you if you get put into the job market by choice or by force. It will probably be a long hard search with the current and projected future state of the global economy.
This site does have people offering helpful feedback but a lot of it is just mean comments.