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Engineers with Intel on their resumes are handicapped due to the piss poor performance of typical Intel employees.
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Focal culture at Intel creates high achievers?? Before I joined Intel, I used to think of Intel employees very highly. I have never seen such a combination of lack of talent, bad attitude and no self awareness of how bad they are. Attending meetings is not work. Creating a perception of work is not the same as doing real work, creating results that add value is. Unnecessarily arguing about trivial things adds no value, really it is wastes of time and energy of the organization. Elbowing, back stabbing, politicking may be ways to get ahead at Intel and sadly encouraged, but only in bad companies these types of behaviors are allowed. Promotion process for technical people seems very political. It requires getting support/references etc from a bunch of people. After years of implementing this process probably resulted in weak, political technical leaders at the top who then make the promotion decisions on the next generation leaders. It is not based on strong technical contributions. It is based on loyalty, support, a-- kissing, being a yes man or woman, you name it. Just look at the recent technical (senior fellow, fellow, principle engineer etc) promotions. Probably most Intel technical employees couldn't even pass a smell test outside. Even if they do, they will not last long. In one of my earlier companies, we had an ex Intel person in the team who added no value and was just toxic. He was fired. At the time we all thought he was a bad example, didn't represent a typical Intel employee. How wrong we were.
Yeah having Intel on the resume is kind of a mixed thing. All depends on how you spin it - I tell people I had to fire them for incompetence and if they want more details they can just look it up on their Intel based smartphone or tablet...
Intel just dreams of being another Apple or Google. Sadly their time has expired and will be relegated to the technology trash heap of history.
Hey who is calling it a company led by a stupid clown
Yes
This is BS. Love it or hate it the focal culture in Intel, if anything, made us always think of what else to do on top of our regular duties to survive (noted that for some people it was more about perception than reality). Now being away of Intel I can see the difference in other companies when all they focus is on their duties and I can also see the plus Intel or ex-Intel employees can bring to other companies by being 'trained' to always achieve more than the normal duties.
Qualcomm is even worse in that regard. At least Intel engineers are capable of letting someone speak without interrupting them in the middle of the sentence. I mean how can a Qualcomm engineer find a job if they interrupt the interviewer after 30 seconds: "Nonononono you are totally wrong!"
Sorry. not believing that for a moment.
The majority of hiring managers wouldn't consider Intel to be a sinking ship.
I suppose you have to get your kicks somehow.
Yes, having Intel on my resume now brings up more questions during my interviews. Performance concerns, lack of execution, why stayed so long at sinking ship, etc. FML.
Intel=do not hire.