Thread regarding Intel Corp. layoffs

If the project is on time, credits are shown asexceptional management skills.If it doesn’t accomplish on time, find a scapegoat

Intel accept lies these days, Marketing just parrots the lies, not their fault they are too stupid to know when they are being lied too

Drawing pies in the sky is the hall mark of the ethnic culture that dominates Intel. It gets people promoted. The entire American work culture is being changed in that very direction.

This is soooo true, Intel lacks schedule integrity. Also of equal important, they never ever reflect on mistakes which would then enable them to adopt processes to prevent re-occurrence.

Even if they do achieve 5 nodes ready in 4 years from a technology standpoint, they will not be able to execute at volume. Much too inefficient and the workforce itself is incapable of adapting to change. I have never seen anything delivered on time or ahead of schedule, things always slip and its always someone else at fault.

Before coming to Intel I mistakenly thought their capabilities and prowess was world class. These views were immediately contradicted and I find it shocking that companies 1/20th the size are vastly more capable. Intel you need to simplify, modernize, and standardize every aspect of your business, drive efficiency and remove bureaucracy.

• CE! needs to go, your machines and methods are not optimum
• T&D vs VF needs to merge, a type of co-development (Every factory needs to innovate and T&D needs to do full cycle dev, not just get it working, make it economic and feasible)
• Every team needs to be held to account for misses! I only see people they want to fire get this treatment, need to transform to be a learning organization
• Truly reward exceptional performance, too many times I see some meeting organizer get the credit for the effort of 2-5 critical contributors

Intel has a lot of true believers, some initial momentum to IFS, and some promising tech, is this the beginning of the end or the critical inflection point to new horizons? Culture is very hard to change.

When I joined Intel it was from a truly lean company. Management levels were kept limited and the emphasis was on providing products that customers wanted to buy and to making them efficiently.

I was soon appalled at the amount of wasted effort that was endemic at Intel. There were way too many middle managers that didn't add any value, and indeed justified their existance buy "driving" this or "implementing that." Indeed, most of these "improvements" were unneeded time killers, requiring people to collect data, participate in was unproductive meetings, and otherwise detract from real work to fulfill the needs of the pet program. To top it off, if you didn't devote the time to their progrm, you were stabbed in focal for not being a team player.

The vision of management is just stupid for a manufacturing company. Yes we're still a manufacturing company. Pretending to be everything but has led us to where we sit now. Pray that someone with the power to return us to that vision will act.

Ex-Intel here. I worked hard on many great products—and also on many products that got shut down. True, many projects were not scoped out and were nowhere near being ready to be placed on a product schedule. What about the constant rescheduling and pulling in of product schedules, which still didn't work fundamentally?  It's a mind numbing waste of time and talent. I still get calls, and I tell them I wouldn't go back to Intel even if they offered me a million dollars a year.

True. I remember the management selling a 5g solution for 2019 while the engineering teams estimated a delay of at least another 2 years. Outcome: Everyone got fired end of 2019 … and the RF department sold to Apple for cheap money…