Musing here on a lazy Sunday morning and haven't been back to this board in awhile. I was laid off from Intel in a political hit piece around April 2020 right before covid. Was a G8. Joined another large tech company and never looked back.
I remember I was afraid to leave because of geographic reasons and thinking I wasn't "good enough" to get another job due to how Intel can actually atrophy your skills. I was better than I thought and landed on my feet quick. There are still good people who are stuck at Intel, but vast majority of the best engineers all the way up to Fellow I know have long left. Yet, it is cathartic to see this absolutely cesspool of a company get demolished by the likes of AMD, NVIDIA, Microsoft, Apple, etc. The politics, backstabbing, land grabbing, nepotism, lack of accountability, information hoarding, and incompetence are all NEXT LEVEL at Intel. Like, you will experience some of that at any other big tech company, but my lord did Intel take it to a higher plan.
Most of the people left at Intel I warrant are those that are just trying to make it to retirement and know they don't have the skills, or the will to learn anything new to start over at another company.