I once witnessed a high-level Intel manager refer to Intel engineers as "whiney lab rats" when he thought he was in the company of only upper management. He later became the CEO. That is the secret leadership culture at Intel. The absurdity of insulting those who do the work for which you are paid an exorbitant salary.
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2nd happiest day of my career getting hired at Intel 10 years ago, happiest day of my career the day I gave my notice to Intel 5 years ago. Company is a sinking ship. Most engineers like myself put up with the poor work life balance, especially after 5 years when the full stock benefit kicks in each year. It's not worth it! Especially with the embarrassment Intel management has endured by telling the world TSMC is a step function more advanced. This new chip (lake, river, or even named after an ocean) is not going well and work life balance is only going to get worse. Whike salaries are decreased. You are now competing against engineers who will sleep in their file cabinets at work if they have too. While you at Intel, working side by side with employees who are encouraged to confront and initiate conflict with each other. Good luck...
Not at all surprise by this... a) it is mostly true... b) the culture at Intel makes everyone act entitled to challenge every other person in the company on virtually any topic, even if it is out of their domain.
Looking at the ELT list online, none of them, other than Pat, is likely to even suspect this. Not being a fab guy, Pat probably doesn't know it either.
As a lab rat myself, I don't take offense if they make me rich or at least provide a stable job. Both are looking unreachable now.
The real problem of Intel culture is a contempt for technology. In its best days, Intel's TD head was able to pick out what was manufacturable from a long list of IBM publications and implement them quickly using whip cracking managers on new Ph.D.s. This approach supported Intel's monopoly, which in turn, covered up the lack of technical know-how and innovation. In reality, Intel was like a flea on IBM. When IBM Microelectronics died, the flea starved to death. It took a while, but now you know. And it is too late.
I won't name names, but they all have the same ingratitude.
Big Krapsandwich?