Thread regarding Intel Corp. layoffs

11) All US sites are gray, boring, with long coriddors looking identical accross all buildings.

They never have any TP in the bathrooms and the soap dispensers are empty, along with the towel dispensers. Perhaps Intel suffers from some form of bacteria entering the general population that eats and degenerates the brains of its hosts.

Hate is a really strong word. And Intel isn't worth the energy that it takes to truly hate. I've moved on.

That said, my short experience as an employee at Intel was nearly uniformly negative.

From being recruited from a good job to a job at Intel on false premises (it ended up being very different than what was advertised), to being treated like a child despite having nearly 20 years of high-level experience in my domain, to being thrown into a really difficult position, doing everything I was asked to do and more, then questioned on whether I was "aligned with our strategic goals," to using my personal network to rapidly bring on an amazing team, to my own boss undermining me with my own team (they told me), to being stabbed in the back from HQ (I was remote), to seeing the handful of employees that I trusted and respected quit or be run off by incompetent politicians doing stupid things, not making necessary decisions and being disingenuous. Finally to be ISP'd after my first full year FOCAL for the sin of being "successful" (despite all of this).

There were just hundreds of ways that working at Intel was just a negative experience. Maybe some people thrive in that culture. I certainly did not and was planning to leave - like so many of my former colleagues - after the next annual bonus. I got a severance package instead.

I can hold my head high in that the work that I did (and tried to do, despite meddling, ignorant as*holes like my boss and her boss) was excellent. It received external awards and praise at the highest levels outside of Intel. And I acted as a professional throughout, despite really being treated poorly and being lied to nearly endlessly.

Do I hate Intel? Nope. Will I do everything in my power to buy other-than-Intel products for the rest of my life? You betcha...

1) slow, because of multiple approval forums.

A. Some are good, such as CCB, as long as Sohail stays out.

B. Balls cut off of engineers - can't make decisions without one more approval forums. No authority for engineers.

C. New, reorged, organizations are designed and configured according to how the multiple approval forums will interact and not according to how to best get the work done.

2) Zero recognition. I would recognize the engineers I coached and have them show some of their best work to their peers and other GLs. I was the only one who dig this.

3) Opposite rewards - would get rewarded (including promo) for work I didn't think was that great. The work I did think was great was not recognized.

Here's a model: MAP

M - Mastery - the engineer can master his craft, and learn new st kills to advance his knowledge

A - has authority to make decisions in the scope of his work.

P - Purpose - he is working on projects that will make a significant contribution to society.

Intel doesn't support M or A; P is a strong area for Intel .

Agree that people are placed in management that have no business being there.

1) Monopoly sales wrongly attributed as inherent commercial competitiveness.

2) Account teams with no idea what's happening in the market because guess what no one wants to tell Intel what's really going on.

3) Finance who would like to substitute for sales.

4) OPEX generated by Moore's Law meant pretty much whatever anyone did there is more money next year.

5) Job descriptions with no impact.

@djt - If we measure greatness by Jim Collin's book "Good to Great" standards, then Intel doesn't meet the threshold for greatness. I sure hope it can in the future.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_to_Great

This is very easy to fix: @HkOMxVo

11) out of work retards posting on layoff boards. LOL

WhenI first joined Intel, 5 years ago, I prepared a ppt presentation for a project I was working on. I gave a quick preview to my manager prior to presenting it to a wider audience. The first slide was colored. As soon as he saw it he turned pale and said:' Change that slide and any others which have color to BW or they will think you do not have enough to work on". I will never forget it!

Intel is great - why hate it?

Would you buy a PC or Server from another company?

Bureaucracy.

Too much work to stay average.