When LBT quit the board, he expressed that intel middle management is the problem.
https://semiwiki.com/forum/index.php?threads/intel-board-member-quit-after-differences-over-chipmakers-revival-plan-reuters.20863/
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My manager has been here for 25 years and probably knows less than a new grad. She calls meetings and is in meetings all day long and portrays the "im soo busy and important" vibe. If I were her manager she would have been fired a long time ago.
Too many useless Directors, and 4 types of VPs (VP, Corp VP, Sr VP, Exec VP). We could definitely use a SET like cull of the fat and useless AR generators and PPT presentors.
And so is upper management
lots of fat to cut
Exactly! Middle management blocks any new strategies from higher management and blocks innovative ideas from lower levels. Middle management is like the deep state - it's own welfare is most primary even if it has to cannibalize on rest of the organization
He is 100% correct.
Middle manahement was a HUGE problem in my time there. Way too many of them whose survival depended on getting some program implemented with their name attached. The people doing the real work then had to go through the training, learning, and implementation for something that didn't really work any better than what we had, on top of the costs created. Then get ready for the next one coming a month later.
Need to cut 20K managers and increase the span of managers to 20+ hard workers top to bottom.
New ceo could look at places with more than 5 layers between an engineer and the ceo or groups with people not doing hands-on engineering work.
My group could have had far more DOE data if not for middle management. Which means much better decisions could have been made with the direction of our projects.
Get rid of power-bi dashboard warriors--they will copy what everyone else copies and putting their own names. There are many teams who just recreate same dashboards to present as weekly "updates" to id--t d-mb managers, who will be mezmerize by cool colors and theyre fancy graphics.
Anyone who makes their living doing nothing but meetings and power points needs to be (mostly) gone.
The company needs a limited number of people to keep the work organized, but frankly why isn't a lot of that automated?
Every big company has this issue, the difference being that Intel can no longer afford the overhead from hosting so many useless breathers.
He absolutely needs to do this. Start hiring from all the top companies and offering lots of stock, if the turnaround is successfull, they all become millionaires. Only way to entice talent in the current market. Oh, and they'll want all the low IQ engineers gone too.
But then there would be no people left to eat the Indian cafe food
@aeu slackers and no skills people are abundant here. People who do 1 or 2 items a week think that's enough to say they are burnt out. Those need to go
A good measure of a bureaucracy is the number of layers between the top and the bottom. Intel is likely to go through a massive restructuring similar to what the US government will experience with DOGE. I wouldn't be surprised to see Intel go towards leveraging a more contingent workforce that can be turned up or down with little impact to the company. There is a lot of overhead with full time employees. I could see not just Intel but American companies in general moving away from full time employees in favor of contract workers. You are only as good as the last work you submitted. Slackers and people with obsolete skills need not apply.
If he can remove the many superfluous first line and second line managers in OCTO / SATG that would be great to streamline everything, less politics, less nonsense and get rid of dead weight
That would be a good first start. Sadly, didn't see any of those guys removed during CPM.
He is absolutely correct! If he could see that in his short tenure at Intel, he would be capable of fixing it in no time.
because middle management and the board IS the problem!