Given the post about people abusing the system - coming in late, leaving early, cronyism, and postioning themselves to look good instead of doing a good job, is this unique to Intel? I get the impression that all large established companies will have the same problem like IBM, HP, AMD, Apple, Nvidia, micron. It might be worse if they don't have a way to get rid of known deadweight.
What has people seen or hear about other companies?
In my experiences at GE, IBM and HP, large corporations tend to be terrible, political places to work, especially if they're going through lay-offs and re-organizations, which is nearly always in this day and age. Places get so big that the overhead of decision-making, corporate BS and politics s---s up all of the time and energy that would be otherwise be (better) spent on understanding and serving customers, developing innovative products and solutions and properly developing employees.
At the end of the day, though, GE, IBM and HP aren't monopolies the way that Intel has been. That's led to a special kind of cultural dysfunction at Intel. Energy that would/should have been spent on competing in the marketplace has turned into competition between fiefdoms at Intel, among senior execs for internal resources and among employees for good focal ratings. The external competition and the needs of the customer have almost become an afterthought. Kind of like working for the old AT&T. I've never worked at a place with as many pointless meetings and as operationally inept as Intel. I attribute this to the broken culture and internal focus.
Slackers and dumb*sses are really good at dodging the bullet @fhd. I've had a WTF list at every single company I've worked for. I don't know why management doesn't just come to me for the list. It would make their job so much easier on them, and they'd actually be rid of the problem people, not the poor souls that got spit out with an algorithm.
I hate to say it, but in the team I left, ACT eliminated some of the best and hardest working just because they hit the magic algorithms--age, time in grade, colocation, single SL4--while the one real slacker was left standing. Employee has been able to dodge all the bullets.
Intel gets the gold medal for corruption in this area. Unfortunately, it has run rampant. They can easily get rid of 15K more useless mgrs if the system was not so fixed.
It is unique in developing irrelevant technology for the Jurassic era.
I was at Cisco older white men talked held meetings, went to Lunch/golf. Our VP got a women director she cleaned house got stuff done. White men grab power and blame everýone else.
MOST WOMEN WORK HARD DON'T PLAY POLITICS.
OLDER WHITE MEN AS A GROUP ARE MOST LIKELY TO PLAY POLITICS AND ALWAYS GRIPE. THEY DO THE LEAST, AND CONTRIBUTE NOTHING.
Never seen anything like this. For other companies there might be a couple of people doing this, but at Intel almost everyone does it. Even if you wanted to work, there's nothing useful to do...