Just sharing my experience in one of my interviews. I was being interviewed in a mid-size software company.. The company has cool project for space communication.. then one of the directors asked me: "We are not a big company like Intel, and here people really work hard and they need to produce. Do you really thinking coming from Intel, which is big and has a lot of space to people hide their incompetence will fit here ? I am not saying you are incompetent but here you really need to be a real engineer.".
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Intel still does world class work, but as another poster has said 90% of innovation comes from 5% of the people and about 80% of the work from 50% of the people and the job of the interviewer is to fish out are you the top 5% or 50%. If you are not forget it unless your interviewer is desperate or retarded.
For the bottom half better look before ACT2
Sounds pretty fake OP.
Intel was great on my resume. Anyone who says differently is simply disgruntle.
Look around the good people are all bailing as they know the end is near
No real hiring director in their right mind would say something like this if they really wanted to hire top talent AND are in an area where there is are other companies that are hiring for the skillset.
I'd give the finger and move on. Oh wait, I have. That's one of the reasons I avoided joining Intel and HP out of school 20 years ago....And it worked out for me since I ended up going to a scrapy dot com that ended up IPOing very well.
On the flip side, an honest interviewer might be a sign of a great company.
I initially suspected that the interviewing director was ISP-ed from and resents Intel, but then I remembered that very few employees at the director level or higher we're ISP-ed at Intel.
OP so how did you answer?
And did you get the job?
Or are you one of the deadwood hiding ?
That's one of the virtues of working in metro parts of CA. There really isn't an excuse why you cant find a good opportunity if you are reasonably competent. If you have or jackass director, walk across the street to a competitor. Average stat of a well qualified software guy in silicon valley is about 2.5 years at a company, especially if the company is getting stale and not throwing a bigger none at you. You are doing yourself a disservice if you don't hop around, and let a company pigeon hole you into some bullsheet job that isn't current.
Finding a great job is like dating... Since you are going to spend all your time wooing the prospect...
Invest time to lose weight, get fit, shave, get new clothes, work on your interpersonal skills, and go after the hot looking chick. Because the effort to get the hot chick will be the same as trying to get the one that isn't...And since you are going to be spending time and resources anyway to make yourself presentable, you might as well spend that extra 20% effort for a much better opportunity.
Well, if true, the director sounds like a d--k, and you probably don't want to work at the company because when it comes to compensation he will be a d--k too.
Pass.... Plus working for defense/space and comm, your career and compensation upside will be limited moving forward.....My dad was working for space and comm. At his twentieth year, his total comp ended up being the same as mine 4 years out of school at a tech company..Granted, he also had a pension which we don't have a anymore, but I had stock grants...