Thread regarding Intel Corp. layoffs

Intel strategy is busted, I am padding my resume and getting out when the first good job comes around.

It is clear, I don't trust my manager or his manager, and BK will anyone who has a clue can figure out he has none.

once I get my green card I am definitely out of this Intel hell.

My advice to you is to leave now and build your skills and expertise in more productive places. At Intel there are 4 people to do every simple task and 10 more managers of different denominations to oversee what these 4 engineers do. It typically takes 10 project meetings of 10 or more people to determine if their is "ROI" in spending an engineer's half day on a silly bug fix. Among the many things, this is another root cause of Intel's downfall.

I'm in ISECG girls... I don't know what is ACT, hahahahahahahahahah. yeah!, go mcafee!

What I learned if you are out of favor with your boss and a S they can find ways to position you very well to get to boot!

That if you are offered a VSP, take it. Because if you don't you will eventually get an ISP. In 2013 in my group of 9 people, 5 were offered the VSP. Only one took it at that time. By 2015 the other 3 of us were gone. Luckily for me the ISP I was given was as good as the VSP I was offered. Bet that doesn't happen in the future.

This isn't new news @hrh, but it is a very good reminder. They were VERY clear that those that were offered VSP should SERIOUSLY consider taking it or the next round wouldn't be so nice on them.

That wasn't worth the gamble in my mind. I'd have been gone had I not been offered the ERP I waited over a year to be offered.

I am still on the inside and I talk occasionally to my HR friend and basically it is this. If you were / are offered VSP - it does not matter if you are a technician, engineer, PE, or manager, you WILL get your ISP. Intel has an agenda to get rid of perceived low performers and make room for URMs. Sorry, but you should have taken the VSP or if you qualified the ERP. Your days are numbered. Sorry for bad news folks.

I learned that BK would rather everybody feel good about themselves and be called "successful" then give an actual "below expectations" review to people who deserve it. Note that either way you're fired, but only one of those ways is truthful and respectful by delivering a difficult message.

Oh, and he'll lie through his teeth and say that stock level has been used in the past for performance-related layoffs. It hasn't. Ever.

What did I learn form Act?

That if you have a 40h/week contract you should make it a 40h work-week.

Even if you work your arse off, run up overtime like mad and are really successful in your area of expertise that doesn't stop formula xyz that fits "business objective of the the day" being applied and bang you are walked out.

Summary: Just be realistic and adjust your loyalty to the company according to the loyalty it show towards it's employees.

I am really sorry for everybody who believed it is a meritocracy and got kicked out.

Still trying to do a good job here, but not playing the hero or rocking the boat.

Yours worker drone #12341234b.

@ISMpbUm-wux well said, it is sad how bad it is at intel with their insular and arrogance.

I agree ACT validates that management is lost in sonny ways, sad and not encouraging at all for the future.

"At any moment you can receive an email from hr and be walked out the door in 30 minutes..."

for being "successful" or "new to Intel". Truly a GPTW!

Seriously, what I learned from ACT is that Intel is really in a much worse place in terms of leadership, culture and strategy than I even imagined.

I was recruited to Intel less than two years ago as an experienced, highly accomplished person - explicitly - to bring positive change and new ideas to an area that (at the time, at least) was considered important. I had a truly awful manager and a petty, vindictive (and clueless) VP who permitted (encouraged?) dysfunction.

I had a glimpse behind the curtain and it is worse than you can imagine: arrogance, ignorance, cronyism, small-mindedness. A company so accustomed to monopoly that it has lost touch with the customer and primarily runs against itself. The competition and key OEMs know this and have also lost faith in Intel.

Intel has painted itself into a corner in so many ways.