when i was a manager we were monitored by the HR "parity police". Didn't promote enough URMS? that's a problem. We must have parity. Didn't give enough money to women versus men ,.... uh oh. WE need parity!!
The only place "parity" doesn't exist seems to be in our layoff policy. I ask Intel HR, did you ever raise a hand to say that Intel's policies impact older employees more than younger- where is the parity in that??
@1ztm Assuming you are a true RCG, I'm glad you think Intel is fantastic. I was forced to leave Intel in 2016 and I felt so bad to transfer the work I was doing to the couple of RCGs with whom I completed training. The struggle and learning curves would negatively impact their career path. If they are smart and lucky enough, by now, they should have already moved to different position/group/company. Anyways, I doubt they would have the same impression about Intel as you do.
@1ztm, the most important factor for you to get promotion is not VSP to get ride of old timers. it is your race and gender.
As an rcg I think intel is fantastic . The amount of career opportunities open to us is amazing. I know there have been a lot of old timers that have left but they have gone with cheques that I can only dream of. If VSP was open to all it would clear out more to allow for more promotions as b k himself said.
Go change your self-identification to black female. It does not matter what you are, what matters is your identity group. The company will be violating EEO regulations if they question you change of status.
Voilà! Problem solved. I am so glad I got Intel to pay for my MBA before I left.
At Intel for some time, there was a period if you worked hard, you tended to be safer from getting fired, we have become a culture of contractors. I hate what BK has turned Intel into. I despise this place, and hate going to work. I used to bleed blue and was loyal. My influence level with sr. leaders remains high, I still try my best and work hard, but I no longer care if it prospers. I hope to be out within a few months.
Oyo/cpp this is exactly what’s happening to me now. Except for the vsp part and jumped straight to focal. They did offer me an opportunity to find internal job (not redeployment) but would proceed to performance manage (totally bogus) me.. thus forcing me out .. 17 years of loyalty. Weeks of hard self reflection on where I went wrong only to realise I’m not alone in this unscrupulous practice of removing a member when there is headcount pressure and changes in the org that renders a persons job obsolete.. that whole org and span of managing at least 8 for a ppl manager even if the members’ work is not directly related to the manager’s scope, is causing havoc and more unfair practices ..silent layoffs are happening and as I said I’m not alone.. take a hard look around you and see how many of your comrades are affected ..
Yes, cpp. Sounds like you are being targeted for removal. Part of Intel's game is to first make you feel "uncomfortable" in your present environment. They hope that YOU will make the decision to find another job and resign. The job market does not bode well for older, experienced applicants, and they know this, but if they can succeed in you removing yourself from that group, they have met their goal. The first part of this discomfort may also come in the form of offering VSP. They will explain that "three years ago you did not receive stock options so one of the consequences is to offer you an opportunity to accept VSP". This is their "kindness" to not fire you immediately but to see that you are convinced the writing is on the wall so you need to take the matter into your own hands. Next year they will simply fudge the Focal report and lay you off. It's all very unfair, especially for someone who may have dedicated years and years to this company and given it the best you had with many personal sacrifices. This is their heartfelt "thanks" after you cross the age barrier and are no longer needed.
I have spent my entire working career here at Intel. In recent years the environment has got much worse. Maybe it’s due to the length of service of most in my group. It’s like the hunger games. I have had an IR and feel I am being frozen out of the group. I am reaching an age where I know it will be difficult to get a new employer. Anyone been in a similar position at intc?
The culture has always been bad at Intel as they have no belief in respect for the individual or family values. Since BK has taken the reigns, it has only gotten worse as people are being treated more unfairly as ever before.
My org in SC promoted 3 undeserving, Ind female engrs to fill a diversity quota.
I was a manager at 3 different times across two orgs, and never heard the term 'parity'. However, I was forced by HR at one time to promote a female because 'Intel didn't have enough technical females'. Apparently my argument that there were more qualified men as well as other females that were more deserving, HR still forced me to promote her with the additional argu that she had been in her grade a long time. Apparently, meritocracy means nothing when the company has an agenda. To make matters worse, the raise they gave her put her above anyone else in the group, including me.
Stats are the only thing that is significant to HR. They have a direct corporate pipeline to corporate so they do and say whatever corporate wants. These people are complete sell outs and are as bad as any management anywhere in Intel. All just to maintain a job and visibility to executive management. They now call themselves "people engineers", hiring and promoting quotas to corporate demands and flushing others when appropriate.
@TsBWx5l-ypk Yup in my tenure the Hispanic, African American and Women promote w/o any resistance but if you were White or Indian or worse Asian challenge if they were worthy and told to wait nore than not and promote the URM
All for statistics, really sad, not parity at all but preference
Our organization was a couple hundred people. Once focal was inputted by us the data was sliced and diced by HR to see how promotions, stock etc. were distributed by race and gender. If our numbers were out of line we had to have a good answer why, many times we didn't want the hassle of fighting it so would for instance promote a women to make HR happy. Meritocracy I think not! It's called a quota system.
What a farce, I was asked multiple times can I promote a women or ERM to increase the level of higher grade number of URM.
I was like what is the problem I gots 1 black and 1 Hispanic out of 100+ and 20% women, you really think they are faster and more deserving than the 80% males?
BKs goal of URM % at all grades match US general population has resulted in a total farce
Intel HR has absolutely zero credibility. They claim that when an employee has a private conversation with them about an issue at work that it remains confidential. There have been many instances that the information shared has found its way back to management almost instantly. For this reason,bthe average employee has distrusted HR for a long time and it's become quite useless for the good of the employee. Their favorite skill is working with corrupt management to fire whoevere whenever.
Funny, I have been a manager for seven years, and the word „parity“ has never appeared anywhere.