Elon recommends that all US companies follow the twitter lead. Intel could easily half its workforce by removing the right people. The individuals that compete one user story point per week, like seriously why are they here anymore, dead weight, these individuals should immediately be part of that 50%. People that cannot perform their work and respond accordingly to email concurrently need to leave, if you cannot manage your day, your time, your work then you are nothing but a drain on the company
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Cut the heads if you want to live. -Arnold
Per design, Intel has 4x the number of engineers as AMD. So even cutting engineers is not out of the question. Still, you will find most of your waste in overlaps between the support functions.
Intel finance is easily twice as large (more like 3x) other companies on a revenue basis for example.
One thing anyone who has worked at Intel knows is that is has lots of redundancy. There are multiple divisions that all think they are responsible for 'x'. There is also two in a box management (lazy way to not get rid of excess managers).
As for redundancy, even Intel doesn't know where all the waste is. For example, channel marketing creating content and programs for resellers when product marketing in the divisions thinks they do that. One way to root this out is to use AI. You build a matrix of function and products and make everyone identify which activity and product they are working on down to task level. Then, let the AI tell you where the concentrations of overlay and waste are. There are many departments checking other peoples work. At Intel there is so much overlay you can find checkers, checking the checkers.
The AI will tell you who to fire. The AI doesn't care about feelings. The AI doesn't care about DEIs. The AI will be tasked with maximizing efficiency people movement. The result will be based on meritocracy, not favorites, nepotism, DEI any any other such nonsense. Here we are talking about saving the company. If that is even possible.
Good luck with your layoffs, alright? I hope your firings go well.
Also, cut the number of management layers. Any manager with less then 10 people should be suspect.
Next, look at all DEIs that have below average time in grade with multiple promos over 3 years. These are pool where you will find the ones that are overpaid and not qualified.
Intel needs to follow Elon’s lead in reducing headcount because revenue and the product roadmap don’t justify current staffing levels — sad but true.
Intel needs to follow Elon’s lead in innovating as well. Using Twitter Spaces for high attendance sessions, actually monetizing services provided to customers, etc. … this is risk taking, a nice contrast to the previous management at Twitter which incurred losses and focused primarily on censoring non-leftists.
If Intel doesn’t take some prudent risk and invest in talent that can actually produce, it will continue to shrink.
Yep how many points, whats the say do, Product Owners that don't own or take ownership of anything, all part of the problem in my organization. Too bad senior leadership wont take account
Maybe paying attention to "user story points" is part of the problem.
It aint just indian H1Bs, Israel, Costa Rica are on the list and just as bad
Intel is just a welfare company for Indian H1Bs at this point. Keep on referring your cousins and wives! I'll keep going long on NVDA and shorting INTC.
More than the largest stadium intel should be so lucky that so many want to tune in. Not a failure but a showing of overwhelming interest
Firing for the sake of firing without any proper analysis to back it up can back fire really fast. Elon has been bitten in the a**. Yes Twitter may have had too many employees alright, but Elon fired recklessly and he is now ripping the benefits of it… so no Elon is not the leader to follow… Example: https://www.foxnews.com/media/teeny-tiny-audience-elon-musks-much-hyped-twitter-spaces-disaster-draws-fraction-moguls-followers
Again. Intel has more employees than TSMC, Nvidia and AMD combined.
Go to another company and you will see every director does not have a chief of staff (or 2).
Everyone at Intel things they are “strategic”. This means they do no actual work.
The golden t-t that supplies the BIC benies and salaries is over folks!
Intel doesn't know who is working and who isn't. Even in the good old days, Intel engineers are mere "coordinators". The real work were done by two groups of people: 1) the vendors who, once broke into Intel, can easily sell to other chip companies. This kind of motivation don't exist anymore; and 2) new college graduates and summer students who can do busy work with their raw energy.
That was even before DEI, lol.