As a long time PTD engineer, the recent structure of PTD (officially there is no PTD though), is more than enough to put the last nail in the coffin.
A bunch of large number of incompetent GL’s and AM’s who have no knowledge and understanding apart from providing some meaningless AR’s to engineers totally unrelated to process development.
Can anybody imagine that a process class is offered to Engineers in some quarters, which is just 3 hours long? The whole semiconductor FINFET process in 3 hours? Is it for dummies? This totally speaks about the culture at PTD and the Intel Management.
However, new RCG’s are pretty happy. Most of them never thought they will ever in their life get the amount of money Intel offered them after school for the skills they have.
This the only company which does not care for what your expertise/major/interest is. In your whole grad school you may have never heard of the word lithography, but still get hired in PTD/D1 litho. Why not?, after all at the end of the day, what you are expected to do is to maintain some tools, nothing else.
Who is the biggest achiever in this company, a engineer who can baby sit the tools..... If that makes you happy, your manager will be happy.
So why we are trailing, the answer lies within.