Thread regarding Intel Corp. layoffs

Over decades of time, Intel has managed to create a large amount of bloat and redundancy. The amount of bureaucracy is staggering... even after layoffs since the org design hasn't fundamentally changed. Intel culture breeds this behavior. Everyone has to check and second guess everyone else's work. With so much redundancy and so few competent managers (exacerbated by DEI hires from outside the industry or promoted above their competency) it is very easy for weak employees to burrow in, collect big pay check and not actually produce anything. This is really a thorny problem to solve because there are several layers of muck here that have to be cleaned up before it turns into a highly performing team. This is really a tough turn around situation. GL.

some managers hire their cronies and expect everyone else to shoulder the load of their cronies goofing off. They need to get rid of those managers and their cronies.

there is nothing wrong with layoffs.....
as long as the right people get laid off!!

Agree. There are so many people who have never worked anywhere else and who fiercely protect their turf. Many of them bully those who are there to actually do work, drive change, and make an impact. The bullies cannot get a job anywhere else. They will help each other protect the status quo so they can keep doing nothing and bleeding the company dry. And guess who will be laid off? The people draining the company of its future? Those same people who do nothing but stop change and progress? Doubtful! It will be the people who actually do work, who are there to make a difference, so aren’t included in the apathetic cliques. It’s like that saying, “the tallest blade of grass gets mowed down.”

There are many lifers at Intel who are smart and care and work like crazy and make an impact. Unfortunately, they are over-shadowed by the status quo, political bullies.

Good luck to those that actually care and work hard.

yep, we have one of those in our lab. He's a BB network support specialist, and he only works when there are active tickets/issues. Otherwise he plays sudoku all day at work, getting paid for 7 hours of sudoku and maybe 1 hour of work. Really should be a green badge job but he's friends with the lab manager.

Cool story bro.

Can you name a more bloated and disfunctional company?.... I cannot.

Major problems are DEI push and whole families “working” for each other so real talent doesn’t get a chance to get in. Met a family who all worked for intel except their in-laws who were quite old otherwise they would’ve hired them too!!!! So many free loaders that a major cut is absolutely necessary.

Need to start with Pat.
He is spending billions to build fabs so we can build more chips no one wants to buy, instead of building a chip people want.

A side effect of the DEI push for the past 10 years.

If I get 5k/month, I will do nothing as well..

Honestly intel needed a cut. There's so many people who have made an art of looking busy.

Hopefully they will be the ones to go, but I wouldn't say I'd be that confident

Some employees seem to see Intel as a game where they have learned all of the tricks to play it well. Intel is the only big company they've ever worked at, so they think this is what work is.

They will have a rude awakening if they try to go to a company where the work is what keeps you busy instead of the game.