Thread regarding Intel Corp. layoffs

I was at Intel for 23 years and retired just before layoffs were announced (no buy out :( )… I busted my a-s for most of those to include working on my days off (I was exempt) on projects. Most of the people I’ve seen bad-mouthed here did too. It wasn’t for lack of effort or dedication that we fell from grace.

We believed our own propaganda: we were going to advance Moore’s Law and it was a destiny to lead the industry just because we were Intel. In truth, we made the wrong bet on Lithography technology and couldn’t deliver on 10nm…in 2015/16, we gave up the lead. When they merged D1 Ramp, PTD and D1C, they lost most of the Ramp engineers and line managers who knew how to bring up a line. The PTD engineers weren’t used to having limited tools/people and working within a budget. We became focused on hot box performance rather than tool availability and fleet health and our yield was cr-p when we tried to go to high volume.

Even still, TSMC just ki-led us on costs. They can make it cheaper, they spent money and they had thousands of wafer starts per week to improve their processes rather than the hundreds we tried to ramp with. I think we were doomed for the past 8 years…didnt’ know it then because I trusted the judgement of the people I worked for who were very smart and dedicated….but, in restropect, wrong.

I had techs who would obviously sham and take 4 hour breaks…but I had more that I was worried about NOT coming of the factory and work 8 hours straight to finish a PM.

DEI did su-k not because it’s bad (we actually needed it to get the workers we (thought ) we needed but because we were just so bad at it. It was more performative than effective. It was all about numbers and taking the right pictures for our advertising rather than finding talented DEI candidates and keeping them. I can’t tell you how many female managers we lost from the fab just because they weren’t challenged..most them went off to Google, Microsoft or the defense industry with one or two years at Intel on their resume (which was a good thing then).

Jealous?
Go build something for yourself and stop blaming others.

OP, you are welcome.

I worked at Intel a long time and helped make it grow from nothing to something big. I fought the changes and was not fitting into the new Intel. We retirees were forced out too .... Intel has been bad for 25 years now, why did you pick such a poor company to come work for and think it would last? Why did you not work the 60+ hour weeks that we did? Take some ownership of the poor position you are in. You guys really should go work for a better company.

@vun

Slink away in shame and fade away. Your 30+ years amounted to sh-t. Just go away you ki-led an American institution.

I contributed 30+ years at Intel and couldn’t shi t anymore. What do you want me to do for Intel OP?

@wni+1uYjZtNu well now I know who is receiving their severance pay first. Looks like those who made $$$ did, as I'm hearing MET's have yet to receive theirs.

The blame belongs to the ELT/senior management. The 7 figure a year people who contribute nothing.

The new people actually make the company bankrupt. They could not do much work. but swamp in to increase the headcount, made mistakes to low quality, some brought in the bad culture of telling lies (since they do not have technical skills, marketing and high-talks are the trick to hide their incompetence).

I'm glad the $129,095.03 in taxes they took out of my severance pay will help pay your welfare.

The OP is just bitter

So much energy is spent on hating and blaming. I completely understand that this is not a good situation and many are having a hard time dealing with it. I just don't understand what the blame game accomplishes at this point. Personally, I've spent the last 9 years at Intel with a focus on career and personal growth. I'm in a position now that if I wake up tomorrow and find out I no longer have a job at Intel, I'm going to be ok. In fact, it might even be a relief, considering how stressful work at Intel can be. I think a lot of people here have some deep personal issues they need to work on.

Stop complaining about the retirees! You have no idea of what focal was like 20 years ago. All it took was for one backstabber to send out a negative 360 and you were gone.
The blame belongs to the ELT. It is always senior management that is responsible for the downfall of a great company.
Just like Boeing, the problem is not the worker bees that have been given only a 1% raise spread out over 8 years. Whereas the CEO received a 35% raise after just one year.