Thread regarding Intel Corp. layoffs

24/7 working hours with a sparingly few number of friends that will have your back. Sad existence at best.

I've been at Intel for 20 years, most of that time in TMG. Most of TMG has ludicrous work-life balance. PTD is zero, ATTD is not much better. The only decent work life balance groups are the ones that don't touch the bread and butter of Intel... and of course those are the ones that get redeployed every few years. As my recruiter told me 20 years ago... 'flex hours'? Yeah, we've got those. You can come in any time before 8am and leave any time after 5pm. If only it was even THAT good...

All the whiners are losers and low performers. It is great place to work. If somebody is doing repetitive work year after year, then the person is at fault for not automating the work. I had worked in fab, managed a group and has been working outside fab now. It seems like sour grape for OP and whiners.

Seems like many fab workers not happy. Maybe move to post silicon - it is very challenging with a constant need for learning.

For all the people that complain about working at Intel, please go ahead and take the VSP. No one forces you to be here.

Something peculiar in my experience at Intel was how little actual technical development, especially external development, was encouraged. Very insular culture.

"Utter rubbish..Intel is definitely a great place to work."

Ahh, no.....that used to be the case. Now, as somebody else so eloquently stated, it's a great place to wither!!

Utter rubbish..Intel is definitely a great place to work. Just because a layoff comes by people start getting against the company. If peiple are so badly treated why don't they leave? They don't , because there is a great work life balance, great pay and you can work in what's interesting to you. Not sure about which field you come from. But at least if the fields I know of there is a very good balance. Note that your friends got the job because they are better than you. And if they wanted they could have got the same job you are in now. Bug what's keeping them back is that they think it's a better place to work. So stop being delusional. The same friends must have maybe 5 patents in their first year. But unlike you don't want to beat their drums. If you are happy elsewhere good for you..but please do not say that Intel is not a good place to work. If any Intel employee with years of experience says that Intel is a not a good place to work..they are just being hypocritic. Sour grapes..

When I started last year to look for new jobs at another company they all laughed when I described the job role I performed at intel as a phd process technology development engineer. I was though able to convince them I am looking for a change and get more involved in research and development. Finally I got the job I was interviewed for. I was very well prepared as I spent more than a month to refresh my technical knowledge and fundamentals.

I am working with intel health center now as I got sleep disorder and hypertension after working more than 100 hours per week with very little sleep while on all at nights. Doctors suggested no night on call and work with ADA to find out another internal jobs. But the way my manager behaves with me I am sure they are going to ruin mu next focal and kick me out before I change the group. Who knows may be I will get a CAP for not doing oncall duty pagers anymore. Manager is scared because couple of seniors moved from his group and he does not want to loose more ppl. Horrible condition now. GPTW slogan is nothing but a joke.

@lhc -hire all the PhD, give them Tech jobs, keeps competitors from hiring them.

It's an awful company to work for. Your health will suffer. The fabs are filled with toxic fumes from proprietary chemicals. (don't worry about that smell, it's harmless hehehe.)

On the good side they always paid me on time without fail. And they pay was very good!

Intel does hire the best but a PhD does not seem necessary for sustaining process tools in the fabs -- even a development fab, though in the longer term I can see how deep technical knowledge will play into difficult process development.

There are not many PhDs at the top level - less than a handful at MCM.

I work at Intel and I do not believe Intel hires the best. They randomly hires people in PTD and D1DR with very little to zero semiconductor experience (from biochemistry, biophysics, protein science, particle physics, organic chemistry, inorganic chemistry etc.). Sometimes they hire the best, then destroy their career with repetitive work. What i heard from my friends at other semicon. company that salary is nearly comparable (outside the Portland area is also very expensive)..

@HjTa0H1-nqs LMAO you wish. With the lay off sword still looming.. yeah I wish I was at Intel! I was sad for not getting offer (who wouldn't want to work at Intel?) but now I believe my stars were aligned that day.

My current work schedule is 9-6 and that includes 2 hrs work-out in early afternoon. You can always put in more hrs if you want to. Long lunches off-campus are a norm. Never worked a weekend. I have more responsibilities, bigger challenges though but have technicians working under me. 2 patents out in one year and a conference coming up. I get paid exactly the same as my friends at Intel but I don't get treated like a day laborer. I have heard stories of how harsh some managers can be at Intel and have 'my way or highway' attitude to their subordinates. Intel seems like an overall bad deal for PhDs. Glad I ddin't end up in the PhD plantation.

I disagree. Intel's the best place you can work and have a good work life balance. Pay is among the best and you can grow alot. And yes once you have Intel in your resume, any company will hire you. The OP is just bitter he did not get the job. Because Intel only hires the best.

I have 15 years in the industry and can honestly say it is by far 1) the easiest work there and 2) it allows for no knowledge growth. They also prefer to keep people stagnant in development. My skills and experience far outweigh the role, unfortunately there is zero development path at this time. Typical for a corp of this size.

I agree with the OP. I a doing the same over and over for years. Sending passdown emails from home by 6:30 am, go to fab by 7:30 am for verbal face to face passdown to a bunch of managers, another meeting inside fab (for 1hr) checking SPC charts, tool faults/alarms FDC charts, lots at the tool, tools UP/DOWN, clean/quals., O-rings, stainless steel kits, ordering VCR gaskets etc. ARs assigned in the morning, some are so easy that are doable by 9 am the same day. Night and weekend on-calls, constant slavery for mangers. Everyday we talk to each other why did they hire us, PhDs..they do not need PhDs to move-in and move-out a lot from one operation step to another, cleaning tools and running quals do not require a PhD degree, complete waste of talent, can not do much, stuck to H1Bs and green card pending (may take 6 more years)... GPTW has become a standard joke for all of us. HRs do not understand the definition of on-call. I talked to them, they think it is just one/two after 5 pm meetings of get paged..anyway can't help much until can get out of this hell..

sounds to meet like a hater who is bitter at Intel for not extending job offer, and a veteran who couldn't hack it?

Completely agree. I'm an 18 year Intel veteran who left 2 years ago and now have more challenging work, making more $, with much more work-life balance.