Thread regarding Intel Corp. layoffs

Have to put a few things right:

• Sandra has a bona fide technical background, and she was instrumental to bring IA into the telco infrastructure market (not to be confused with mobile devices!)
• The real surprise was seeing her lead HR ... can't reflect well on the HR professionals
  at Intel
• Sandra vs Renee - from my personal experience, I'd put my money on Sandra for drive and business acumen any day, yet that experience is from a few years ago ...

Time to short $INTC

Probably the only one who wanted the gig.
Rats and ship'n'all.

@nzw+1nm28vhq. The standard of HR posts is falling fast.

It has not been a competitive environment and the unscrupulous people in power want to get themselves greased. They have enough money and no vision except to inflate their egos and other body parts. One passable personality is a very willing volunteer so why bother to exert any effort to reward and restore whatever is left of a dead cat’s trajectory. For anyone in any position of influence which is not Intel ‘influencer’ you know this is true people. I have 2 million dollars of paid mortgage of average size and intelligence i don’t need a di--head to tell me I’m not that great.

I'm really surprised how she moved from head of failed mobile efforts, to head of HR implementing disastrous move to Rewards to head of datacenter leading massive Icelake/Sapphire Rapids delays and struggles, to whatever she is now. I don't think we have ever had an executive with such track records of failures, and yet getting promoted so quickly.

'Why is Sandra given more and more responsibilities?
She is so inept. She even got koduri's group.'

Because Raja was a failure

Powers that be work em byatches

@yrt "Renee is intelligent and effective" ... haha ..

you know nothing

It is only a matter of time before VPs with nothing more than paper pushing qualifications fail in the hi-tech orgs.
This is what is wrong with Intel- People with HR background are leading orgs like data center and graphics and depend fully on some subordinate to make decisions!

it seems before DEI policies she was many years time in grade... then the new DEI policies were implemented and time in grade was extremely short through multiple promotions... a meteoric rise... what would explain that?

'Sandra, some say you got your position because you are a DEI.. others say you are an engineering wh-z kid... still others say you never had design or silicon manufacturing experience... how should we think about this?'

Bad interview w/ SR... since then she hasn't been allowed to speak to press it seems...

Intel's Datacenter Fight: A Fortt Knox Deep Dive with Sandra Rivera, EVP Datacenter & AI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzhMchlUHT4&ab_channel=ForttKnox

He says, last time we spoke you were chief people officer... Sandra replies and says, 'I can build businesses, I can transform cultures... I am a utility player..'

‘‘She procrastinates all decisions until the market forces or the customers make them inevitable.’’ Sounds accurate

She does not have a vision for AI. Her strategy is wishful thinking summarized in empty phrases. She procrastinates all decisions until the market forces or the customers make them inevitable. Then she makes statements about strategic moves to focus the business. Has a track record of promoting her minions, resulting in a complete destruction of silicon development capabilities in her organization, which is framed as savings. And anecdotally uses he same standard answer to any question on issue plaguing her org: "I acknowledge that we have a problem, this is not where we want to be, but I just opened a position for the right person to fix it".

Because Intel thinks Ampere and AMD are winning simply because they have women at the helm. Intel still harbors a lot of racist/s-xist views, and employs a lot of people that engage in black and white thinking. A lot of these people also come from cultures that objectify women. I’m all for DEI principles, but the way Intel goes about it will only make the problems worse.

Lisa and Renee are intelligent and effective leaders. Role model that, don’t just show up with a “wE hAvE wOmEn ToO” attitude

SR is given more and more responsibilities because she is a brilliant genius. She is particularly clever, not reliant on her emotions, totally objective, and has unique skills and competencies that no one else possesses.

Trust in lack of leadership to support political positions until like a morbidly obese creature the organization collapses from its weight

The DEI Force is strong with this one.

An outsider question, how did she switch from HR to data center and AI?

I thought SR had cleaned up and validated all SPR bugs?? Looks like not
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/bug-forces-intel-to-halt-sapphire-rapids-shipments#:~:text=Sapphire%20Rapids%20hits%20another%20roadblock%2C%20the%20resumption%20date%20is%20unknown.&text=Intel%20has%20confirmed%20that%20it,to%20a%20newly%2Ddiscovered%20bug.

As odd as it may sound, there are no leaders in the company.

Moreover, at that level its about results, but also more about trust. So whoever the CEO trusts.

You know why