Hilarious. They got this guy from Nvidia in to lead a company wide DFT group and he's out just after 2 years of being at Intel for "other career opportunities". Bet he was just initially hired to take some beatings so that some of the Intel lifers underneath him could take the same job now.
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That's just greed @7vlo. The company would be better if they embraced change & efficiencies. Too bad the greedy have the power to protect themselves which ends up taking down the company they work for. The same example could be used in politics (greed and protecting themselves at the risk of taking down the country). Just sayin'
I believe this. I'm not in DFT but was in a senior level position at AZFSM and lost my job in the ACT due to presenting ideas on efficiency. As soon as I showed my proposed plan to the higher ups, I was gone after for fabricated things and told I wasn't performing and then got SL4. I had been a high performer for 3 years prior to this. It's obvious that the upper mgmt was just trying to protect their own positions.
No diversity at the top echelons. All from of country only.
Intel is a Great Place To Walk away from.
@QiEwAWt-3jcu - I disagree. If the hostility is all at the top, then all that would be needed to right Intel culture would be removal and replacement of BK. That's simply not the case.
Years of monopoly robbed Intel of an external competitor, so competition focused internally. Inept leadership, rack and stack FOCAL and seemingly arbitrary layoffs made internal competition into a Hunger Games and destroyed any vestige of teamwork or trust on teams.
Look, at risk of pointing our the obvious, I'd like to add the following: The hostility at Intel STARTS and originates at the top so it is not especially surprising to see new externally hired senior employees not last long... The external senior employees that are brought in are forced to work in the most hostile and most political environment. Further, most come from fairly normal companies so they do have training in lying, deception, shark-tank politics and the other required skills that Intel leaders already mastered. Senior level 8+ employees provide Intel with the least value and do the most damage. ACT 2016 is a great example.
Yep, that seems to be the way for at least 5 years.
As someone who was recruited from a customer and given an S/SL4 and ISP for "being new to Intel" after just over a year at Intel, I can attest to how hostile Intel is for senior, external hires. Our leadership churned through all but one of the externally hired people in our group - all now gainfully employed at Intel competitors and customers. The sole external hire survivor is clueless, scheming and toxic. And seems to be making an Intel career. Until his political cards are up. This is what Intel has become and why the competition is eating its lunch.
I wonder if the temp leader SB (and senior PE AC) had anything to do with the backstabbing. I've heard some bad things about him in terms of politics from his old CCDO days. SB will probably be the new leader, despite the looking for a replacement.
I agree. It is a valid post. There are a lot of people at Intel with no real expertise, background, competency, original thinking but with abrasive personality. This is true across the board from finance, hr to engineering. Attending meetings, politics, saying something, mostly useless, stupid things in meetings, fighting over unnecessary things are what they know and do best. It is extremely disheartening to see most of these types of people are considered “high performers” by the company. Sad thing even they may not know how bad they really are after spending their lifetime at Intel. In most other companies these types of people - no talent, brains but bad attitude- will be fired. But at Intel these people select who gets fired.
@mdy - Lot of pent up hostility have we not? You must be one of those passive agressive managers that abound at Intel. This is a perfectly valid post and discussion.
I'm a senior DFT engineer. The VP in question (AS) really brought some good ideas for org efficiency and innovation (no doubt from his time at Nvidia) and, as expected, was mercilessly and relentlessly backstabbed by the Intel establishment until the moment he quit. Hope he goes back to Nvidia and takes me with him. Intel is going down.
How is this related to layoff news or discussion? Get a life, loser.