I'm about to start working in TD, and all the negative talk around Intel as a company has me mildly disheartened. I understand the company is in a rough spot, but I try not to let that phase me. I'm excited for what I will be doing and I am motivated to do the work. Is there something that I don't know about that's problematic about the company, something an outsider wouldn't know? Am I just naive? I'm just wondering if you know something I don't
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If its a fab technician job DO NOT take it. Poorly managed, and management has this 'run you into the ground do more with less no quality no workmanship ' mentality. The techs they have these days just have a low quality mindset. Pay is sub par for the work you'd do and 12 hour compressed work week is bad for your health
This has to be a troll. Otherwise OP would have hopped on the Titanic AFTER it had hit the iceberg. Anyone remember the sorry 50th anniversary celebrations 5 years ago? This was when Intel's profit margin was quite healthy, but they cheaped out on the celebration. People passed out from heat stroke in the AC-less tents in AZ. I threw more lavish parties for my kids at Chuck E Cheese. I knew I had to GTFO then, so I did.
Don't do it, even if you don't have other offers at this point - keep looking. This company is in irreversible decline, and it is more likely than not that you will have to find another job at some point. In addition to having missed on better financial opportunities, your resume will have the stain of having worked for a known loser.
Advice...run away as fast as possible!
Choose the company you work for in your early tech career very wisely, your total wealth when you retire is more dependent on that variable then just about anything.
Imagine you choose wrong and went to work for: Polaroid, Xerox, IBM, DEC, Control Data, Palm or Compaq. Where would you be now?
The unusual thing about Intel is everyone is telling everyone else to work for him. The management created a lot floating people who are looking for things to do. A new college graduate is usually their target for busy work.
Also, if you work too efficiently, you stand in the way of headcount expansion, which is always the only goal of your manager. He would hate you for it. If you, say, do the work of 8 people, would he prefer 8 peons or one of you? So, work as little as possible. It's not your company anyway.
Learn to code (if you don’t know how), leetcode day and night, and find yourself a job in software somewhere else. You will grow more elsewhere and will make more money than in the Titanic.
Give it a year. You will hate it as much as everyone else.
This comments seem focused on starting and continuing your career in Intel, if you donthat your pay will very slowly build.
If you take it and give it 2 or 3 years then move on, your pay will jump much faster with each company change.
So why not start the steps at Intel by learning what not to do?
Stay out!! This entire industry is in stage 3 cancer in US. And Intel is in hospice care. It will only bring pain, frustration, financial hardship and regret. Re-skill and move out while you still have time. For the last 25 years semiconductor industry has been run by utterly incompetent clowns in US, and this won't change anytime soon. And this 'Chips Act' is a f*$%g farce. Getting in this industry right now is a generational blunder. All the best!
Intel is going through an unusually bad downturn. It's more than just lagging behind in TD compared to the competitors. It's a multitude of a truck load of bad decisions made over the last decade. With the most optimistic outcome of current efforts in TD, it will take at least two years to see some good results. Please evaluate if you have other options, if you must, jump in and focus on learning the systems, processes, and people's skill - nothing to loose there. You will be fine.
@n-g thanks. your comment is also not helpful and I nearly had a stroke trying to read it.
And the new college graduate how it worked out twenty years ago at IBM?
@mxa please elaborate on how what I said is a "fairy tale". I'm willing to concede that I may not understand the entirety of Intel's situation, but I would like to know what I'm missing. Your comment is anything but constructive. If I'm being naive, please explain why. Otherwise, move along