In the 20 years I've been here, I've seen the quality of new hires go down consistently. At first, it was probably because Intel refused to pay people who knew their worth what they deserved, but now it's mostly because the best are staying as far away from Intel as they can. Our reputation went from stellar to "stay away from it at all cost" within two decades. I can't even imagine what the future will bring if it continues like this.
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https://www.intel.in/content/www/in/en/diversity/diversity-at-intel.html shows that 44.1 percent of all employees are melanin deprived followed by sl--t eyes at 36 percent. This is going to devolve into another nasty identity politics discussion but puzzle me this : if the melanin deprived who work here were actually good and smart, wouldn't the company already be flying high and crushing it? Elt is actually like 89 percent melanin deprived- disproportionately cream cheese in fact ! Lots of fox News watchers in these comments section - if you actually worked hard and qualified yourself to be of some value to society at large, you wouldn't be here complaining about dei efforts destroying the company. People on the right love to call so called libs as being snowflakes - who is being a whiny snowflake now? Why is a cream cheese majority company still struggling to beat sl--t eyed companies?
The quality of new hires has gone down, but it's not because of non-competitive pay or that new hires are avoiding Intel. It's primarily the result of "diversity", excluding skilled workers on the basis of race or skin color in preference to "diverse" candidates which often don't have the same level of skills or educational background.
Imagine you're a hiring manager, and you can only hire someone from a "diverse" background. Instead of hiring whoever is the best candidate regardless of background or skin color, you have to hire from some subset of ethnic backgrounds.
What future?
Intel wasted resources in glitter and didn't deliver for a number of years. It bestowed much money on compensation at all levels and more insanely disproportionate levels at the executive level. The fanfare, stardom, and the gala events with the social hoopla was so deafeningly loud levels that it was talk and bravado.
Look at the array of technological powerhouses of yesteryears that are history now. Intel is heading down the path for some time. The leadership does not act with the sense of urgency. Unlike the laws of Physics, Moore's law is at best empirical in nature. That pretty much sums up the vacuous nature of the proclamation.
Nothing lasts forever in technological move fast our you become irrelevant or deceased. Look at Bell Labs/ATT, IBM, DEC, HP, SUN, Motorola, Nokia the list of declined to deceased is long.
The best engineers used to go to the above listed and now avoid those companies like the plague.
Intel big talking IDM and IFS falls into the list of going fast to extinction with fanatical Pat.
People like to point at Apple or Microsoft as examples of revival but look at how they pivoted. You don’t see Apple saying we are returning to our MAC nor Microsoft saying DOS/Windows baby!
x86, IDM and IFS are a broken combined strategy. It’s a strategy if embarked upon with comment in the 1262 / 90nm days Intel could have been TSMC, AMD, and Nvidia combined. Sadly, arrogance, infighting squandered and ki---d all hope of that and delusional and fanatical dinosaur thinking has all but assured its extinction.
Intel brought the village to an international fight.
Exactly.
Pat thinks he has the superstars of the 90s on the team. Those people are gone and what’s left is mediocrity or worse.
He’s bringing sticks to a machine g-n fight.
Op.. 100% 👍 here.
This is one reason Pat's goals and strategies seem delusional to me.
He acts as if it's 1985 and he can turn the ship around.
However it's 2022 and the ship has been sinking for over 10 years.