Intel has announced record revenues and profits. But IT is laying off employees! Announcement has been made of 200 job cuts in Costa Rica. I am sure there will be impacts at other sites as well. Get serious and please post any news or rumors so that anxious IT employees can get an idea of what's happening - Admin
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@9ohd: What I said was about Meltdown which would have been trivial to find. The Spectre variants are more subtle and more difficult to exploit (beyond simple JS). Have to wonder what you're validating and where, SSG perhaps?
@4buh Actually, I am in validation. Your understanding of validation and/or the nature of the bug seems to be nearly non-existent though.
@ 2tww: Inquiring mind wants to know why you think Meltdown was not caught in validation?
It is such a blatant error that I cannot imagine it not showing up several times. If the news are correct it's been there for a very long time. Somebody above validation with no technical clue has decided it not to be a problem, which now will cost Intel. I for one want a refund on a defective product (does not perform to spec) I paid premium for.
People, it was clear this was going to happen. BK implied this himself. All the groups and tools that we had developed and could not flag the spectre and meltdown holes we obviously have big gaps. A new way of thinking is needed. It’s provably the shake up that’s needed and looked for by our shareholders.
You all need to move to another country. Butt plug.😂
If the tool team is not so good, should they be moved to another org? What worse would happen?
@1rud Yep. I feel iCDG tools are the one main reason why we have eaten up so much money. But top management keeps ignoring this. If you need one week to integrate a two-liner change, if the execution of the same test runs on the same software keep yielding different results and if a trace tool is not just unintuitive but counter-intuitive, then you know that the inmates are running the asylum.
Nobody from iCDG tools team would get hired in customer facing software development, because they are so dumb. Huge savings potential there!
IT budget is not well managed. Some IT site are so short in budget while some other IT site are so bloated that they can’t finish their budget and resort to unnecessary traveling to use up the bloated budget. IT is one of the department with the most office politics and buddying to higher ups. Drinking, partying and cycling with IT Director will get you promotions and more.
IT Management is trying to achieve one thing. Stay within budget, and keep their jobs. Whatever it takes, that is what they can be counted on to do. IT services will get worse as the current business models are unable to support the impact of these changes as they happen every year, so internal business units the require IT, will simply need to generate their own embedded expertise.
Note to business groups: If you want a solid performer that will move heaven and earth for you, start hiring veteran IT folks. Any IT person who has survived since 2007 is going to work harder and have more flexibility and resilience than you can imagine.
I wish Intel had the same courage with the tools teams in iCDG. The tool development there should be completely outsourced. Instead, the utterly incompetent people in those teams are allowed to keep failing year after year. I really want to know how many million Dollars have been burned there, not to mention the money the incredibly buggy and completely inefficient tools have cost us. At least we continue to give our customers and competitors a good laugh.
Yep. Cut throat industry now. Dog eat dog.
I’m sorry for people losing their jobs but IT is a giant black hole of money s---. They don’t contribute to the bottom line and the organization is way over staffed for the awful service they provide. Hopefully they keep cutting in IT so the groups that bring in revenue won’t have to be cut.
@1xxh What?!? Which research is happening in IT?
Layoff is a bad sign..slowing down research
They are not shopping any jobs to India they are planning to outsource all the it and support jobs to accenture
High margin days are over. Ship it all to the third world like cheap plastic toys. RIP.
Intel will choose cheap labor such as india. Intel already selling nand wafer to china. Why many people still work for this greed company they try to take away your jobs soon. They dont care about usa people they only care about the money
I don't feel sorry for the people in CR considering when Intel opened that site, employees were losing jobs in the US because of it. Wherever these jobs go to, that site needs to be careful because Intel will move them to a country where people will take less money. What goes around, comes around
Your new career in fast food is waiting.
Few in low cost geo site IT layoff but these are self volunteer for the package, and only a few. But at the same time IT in low cost geo site spending like crazy, huge numbers of IT folks flying biz class to US. This is not a recent thing, it’s been going on for several years, large amounts of money spent on traveling. Don’t make sense what management trying to achieve!