Thread regarding Intel Corp. layoffs

fully agree with this view.

1. Very correct observations.

2. The "political" non-performers will stay.

3. Current process will make the good nin-political guys leave.

4. Current process will eventually kill Intel mobile part (50% today).

5. Intel will become a server company.

OP is only partially right. The cuts this week in my department seem arbitrary. Some low performers got cut, but just as many really valuable & productive people got cut, too. There are now big gaps in our workforce with no qualified people to fill them.

Wow... I agree with most recent, you shift roles and spend time training and a stock level 4 is given doesn't mean you weren't a good/ hard worker...

Now labeled a poor performer when all you were doing is broadening your scope to move towards other jobs. These jobs required that.

Doesn't each manager have to give a sl4 or 5? By "ranking" so you may have a great team but this year you missed 1 more day due to a sick kid and now ISP.

Sad.. BK is ruining Intel.

Most of us can understand the necessity to trim the workforce. The issue is how deceptively it was done. Instead of active performance management by the managers (identifying poor performers, giving them warning and a fair chance to correct themselves, then firing them if they don't perform), they made the cutoff the stock level which was given to people for lots of reasons other than poor performance. People who changed teams to do something new and interesting, people who went took FMLA, sabbatical etc and older employees. It is worse because they are labelled as poor performers and now have to explain themselves in next interviews as this is so highly publicized. There are terrible mid level managers at Intel who cost the company millions of dollars in salary and millions of dollars in lost productivity who have managed to keep their jobs and continue to drain the company. What is it that company gained now by ISPs? People who had to leave are still here and people who contributed to the company are gone.

@qrf they work harder than must at Intel including you LOL!

Let me guess. You must be the employee of Pride industry cleaning our toilets.

I also agree with the post, but its unfortunate that some good people do get caught in the cross hairs.

Too many grade 9,10,11 etc making sh-- load of money

I don't know why people are bitching so badly here. No company can guarantee you a job for life. If you want that, go get a union or government job.

As far as I'm concerned, Intel is generous enough with their ISP or VSP packages. If you think you're so important and Intel made a mistake in terminating you, then you should have no problem getting a job at another firm.

actually, i do agree with this post. i worked in Intel for 10 years, i d seen all these and all the points are true. i left intel and joined another company...

i am a shareholder of intel stocks (from my employment last time and i bought some in the open market), i hope intel can cut those fats out and make intel great again!

keep it up!

can confirm op observations inside intel

They can start with you