I was surprised with all this women diversity crap going on in Intel. Women were given an easy way towards PE and Sr. PE ..Some women who should have been kicked out long back are still around as they think thry will never be remived I think they should stop all this crap and give equal credit to folks and promote them based on performance rather than they having a hole or a pole. Hopefully BK realizes this soon enough orelse all the good talent will be flushed out in the near future
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-2; one spelling, one punctuation. Check your work and resubmit for half credit. You'll pass ESL yet and get that call center job with your uncle.
Shut up you ignorent redneck
" Intel talks of reservation with one breath and equal opportunity with the other. "
Well, if that is not enough, various women career advisors and WIN conferences at Intel have been teaching a new mantra to women employees: "work less, network more".
"It boils down to the assumption that they needed the bar lowered because they couldn't accomplish as much as men"
Intel has been walking the legal gray zone as far as diversity hiring goes. Time and again we have been told that we can fill a position only if the prospective hire brings in diversity. While job advertisements and open publicity does not say it, what they are practising is discrimination against anyone who is not "diverse". If disallowing an open application process for open jobs is not "lowering the bar", tell me what is. If these female employees feel that that their merit is de-recognized, they should write to BK and the myriad of diversity forums not to practise discriminative hiring and discriminative promotions. Managers get brownie points in their focal for giving higher ratings to women - this is how bad it has gotten under BK.
We are often told to obey the letter and spirit of law. Here is an example how Intel follows the letter of the law, while violating its spirit with an intentional policy.
I see very few female engineers but I see lots of female managers. Why?
The lady employee in my group does not have bandwidth to complete her job and she leaves early and I am cleaning up the mess in her work by working beyond office hours. Intel talks of reservation with one breath and equal opportunity with the other. What a paradox!
I don't blame women for anything that's wrong, it's not their fault. But lowering the bar so that more can be hired is bad for everyone. I've got 2 women teammates in engineering that actually told me that they hate the diversity initiative. It boils down to the assumption that they needed the bar lowered because they couldn't accomplish as much as men do on their own (which for these two is NOT true).
Sad thing is, they're as afraid to speak out as men are, and for the same reasons. So ironically, all the good people hate it, and the not-so-good people who benefit from it love it. Seems like the opposite of what we're trying to accomplish.
There are smart females in Intel... However there are some dumb ones too who have been taking the diversity to their advantage and are surviving on it. Hope there will be proper assessment and we remove the bad ones and replace them with good ones
"And how's the white-male-run Intel done so far? Oh yeah, losing market share in PC's, can't get 14nm out on time, pushing back new products, nothing spectacular in mobile, threatened in the data center. Great job, Mr. Folsom Engineer."
Take a look around you. The brash little start-up that took the DRAM-to-microprocessor shift (monumental risk taking BTW) was founded by and rose to be the #1 semiconductor company on the planet was not by the inept and largely diverse buffoons who have indeed crashed the bus in 10nm, PC market, missing mobile, and all the other ills the company is facing today.
I"m diversity. Check your privilege, you white males scum. You make everyone poor! Didn't you learn about diversity in college?
Intel is actually a toxic culture for capable, smart women. The good ones leave because they can.
Lol at these white male losers blaming females for their failures. Enjoy unemployment!
I have seen and interacted with super smart women engineers . Ofcourse better then me . I am just few years experience . I am EE background . My data structure is poor but I have seen women CS engineers completely dump working in SSG . I don't know how Intel hires them !
And how's the white-male-run Intel done so far? Oh yeah, losing market share in PC's, can't get 14nm out on time, pushing back new products, nothing spectacular in mobile, threatened in the data center. Great job, Mr. Folsom Engineer.
Have to chime in that a tech company run by the so-called "under-represented", will never compete against a global cut-throat industry like ours and remain competitive. The playing field in real life is not level, and those that are first to fall to the politics of diversity will be the ones that fall to competition. Good luck with the charade Intel