Thread regarding Intel Corp. layoffs

You may not like BK

BK may have made mistakes, and which human does not ????

BK ✋ 😐 😐 is not to blame for the current bad culture !!!

WHY no one blames the real MASTERMIND Richard Taylor of the 2016 layoffs 😐 😐 👉 ... ACT

HR is the org responsible for people management!

Richard Taylor likely told lies, provided wrong accomplishments to top management about him managing and having all HR in order.

It is now, in hindsight the l0ser Richard Taylor has been kicked out (with a retirement) and we realize how bad it has become - because we had an incompetent person leading HR.

It is not true that Intel Culture got worse under BK. Intel culture has always been bad.

BK is the person trying to fix the Intel work environment ✋ 😐 😐 With company size of Intel, transition and transformation takes time. Changing people's behavior is not an overnight process. He has introduced Diversity hiring. He has introduced Micro-inequity courses to educate the employees. He is trying. He didn't say it is fixed. Recognizing the problem and acknowledging it is the first step which Intel has done and trying to fix....

Earlier it was a time where not many people were talking about people problems at Intel.

There was not awareness and open forums (such as this one) where people bring out the issues for discussions as a group and learning of other people's honest experiences in the company. Anonymous pseudonym here allows us to do so.

😐 😐 😐 I won 2 ODIs at Intel against two jerks who still continue to work at Intel with no consequences or loss of benefits. Following that, I talked to many Intel people - including in HR and others who have been at Intel, ranging in 10 to 25 years. They informed me that :

Intel culture has always been bad. There are no consequences for Managers who are always safeguarded, some of who stayed at Intel decades after.

I would love to leave Intel, but my high Tcomp just cannot be reproduced at any other company. Just going to s--- it up for a few more years.

What a group of entitled brats.

I agree with the OP and those who say that the culture at Inhell has changed and absolutely not for the better. I also agree with those who say you can't sit back and take it in the arse. I do take issue with those who say fight. F that. You won't win. My strategy is to give them what they want, to go Galt. They want a workforce of yes people and URMs, fine. Have at it and good luck with that.

I am on my 2nd and final sabbatical and plan on returning after the beginning of the year and quitting. I don't have another job yet and don't at the moment care too much about that. I plan on finding something that has far less BS and isn't compromised by SJWs. Will I get paid as much? No. Do I care? No. Intel has become a company managed for dashboard lights and SJW BS. It is nothing like the Intel of Andy Grove's day. It never will be. You can't change it and to fight it only screws you. As Andy said - "You own your employee ability. Do what is right for You LLC" and F Intel.

I agree with comments about ungrateful employees. If you have been at Intel 10+ years and are at mid pay scale or above, you have done much better than most in industry. Every company has issues, but just complaining and not doing your share of work is unacceptable.

Apparently because the BOD has no balls @1mly.

Paycheck guy...

If you can't get similar compensation in the freaking BAY AREA, you are dead weight and can't cut it on the outside.

11 years here. Agree 100% that the culture under BK has become toxic. This used to be a great company where people cared about each other and their work (as much as you can under a focal-type system). I hardly recognize the company now. Agree with OP, execs are now elites, which never used to be the case. We've completely lost our laser focus on results and replaced it with social justice (which is bringing us all kinds of new problems by hiring lesser-qualified people just to fill out quotas). I remember back when circuit highlighted new products, new technologies and major milestones. Now it highlights "BK the rock star", controversial social causes that we have no business being in, and the latest trendy thing in technology that we're trying to get into (at least today, we all know we'll cut it in 6 months).

BK has failed this company miserably. I have no idea why he's still CEO with so many blunders. He rose to power on the promise of tablets and smart phones. How is he around now that the promise was broken and those were all cancelled merely 2 years later?

the Intel HR legal vp has this statement for the group on LinkedIn:

"the HR legal group supports Intel and its employees by conducting a world class litigation management, ensuring fair but firm employee treatment, ...". I find the additional "but firm" language strange and troublesome. How about just fair employee treatment??? Fair, respectful, dignified ...as long as we have these types of people, departments, thinking at Intel, employees will never give their best.

I am only staying at Intel for the paycheck. 25 years in semi industry, 10 years at Intel. Making most $$ right now. Everything else is cr*p, but the 35% bonuses keeps me here at RNB.

All you whiners should just leave Intel.

Solve the problem or GTFO.

Regrettably, Intel is full of lying, backstabbing, cheats who will do anything to get themselves ahead. Again, ad most people have stated, how does this attitude help the future of the company? The moral had certainly severely declined during the last 15 years with the most rapid decline in the last 3 years. The company environment us getting worse and worse and yet these people still play their little games and have no accomplishments to show.

I agree with you OP. Also @tjh. The culture and the work environment are toxic. We are managed by incompetent, weak leaders, who get all the tools and support from HR and legal to make employees miserable. There is no fairness, no recognition for real results and performance. GPTW - they must be joking us...far from it. I have never seen a company where the gap between what the leaders of the company say and what the company actually does is so large. The management team and the awful work environment they created have caused such distrust among employees, it is really difficult to see how the company will survive. I worry...

@KPRGbR5-gjm what intel did with silent ACT of 2015 and ACT wasn't a strategic and thoughtful layoff. It was a top down pure numbers positioning BS to give WS some happy number while not changing anything really broken. If there was real change great, hasn't happened yet!

@qjj What a horrible work life for you😭 😭 😭 so sad !!!! There are plenty of Intel managers that are slave drivers and have mentality of abuse and taking advantage of employees they can. If you allow them they will. YOU CAN'T SURVIVE AT INTEL WITHOUT FIGHTING BACK, have not come across such an aggressive company.

Same kind of managers that probably go home and beat their wife and kids TOO !!??? ✋ 😐 😐 Many such groups within Intel exist.

Even though MCM is aware and trying to change the culture by hiring outsiders to bring in a positive culture - it will be atleast 10 years before Intel improves.

There is no way to accelerate a transformation unless Intel reduces to manageable size, less 50% ...and eliminates each group and group-within-group trying to be their own company, have their own ways of managing people and culture.

First realize you don't have to tolerate this 😭 😭 😭 You are the driver of your life Have you considered changing to a different group within Intel or considered outside opportunities???

Remember you..

... own your life and career...

so it is upto you

.. to choose and decide how and where !!!!

After some time - money at expense of your family, health, peace ✌ 😎 ✌ and personal life is not so important and worth it. You can earn few dollars less and still enjoy your life. Live within your means , being minimalist, debt-free and enjoy the one life you are blessed with !!! #lovinglife #lovelife

@qjj, it's your own damn fault that you stuck around to endure the abuse. You are like an abused woman who sticks around with a guy who beats her.

OP, I 100% agree with you. I am sure most of us feel the same way. Down here someone said people who don't appreciate should be kicked out. I pitty him. Did we create this poison like culture?

Is this our fault to feel unhappy? It is the compnay driving this way. Are we bad bcoz we dont apprecite Intel's generous pay? Hell, even if paid less i would be happy as long as the culture is good enough to feel proud, there is a little hope to grow career. I have PhD electrical engineering, but it was useless as i always had been asked to do some garbage like works, works others don't want to do. In did it only becoz someone need to finish the task. In the end, no credit, no appreciation not even a $10 cudos.

Most of the delicious parts of the pie were always taken by the mgrs and their minions. The rests were just slaves cleaning their pxxps. My only memory for last 14 years is just a nighmare, abused, no life but working 24/7. I delivered everything on time, all worked well. Darn it, still mgrs were saying that is not enough! I was working all nights and weekends while mgr was on vacations, enjoying weekends. Screw them! I also had seen many other mgrs unbelivably not qualifed, so mean and back stabbing employees, so rude on top of those. Now they are just a garbage to me. If they come to my work place for interviews, good luck. So, do i still appreciate for this so called generous company which insults and threatens so dedicated hard working employees? I am so happy that i got out of that hell.

@gjm Too right 😎 👏 👏 great minds think alike !!!

Instead of repeated complaining which isn't changing anything -

Try changing your circumstances to improve it or get out of the bad situation.

Take the next package (if there will be any) in 2017. Life is too short to go into a job that you are unhappy with. In the meantime, look for another job after the holidays because Intel may not give packages on the next ACT.

It's all about the management. They have made the Intel environment truly unlivable. Pair that with the fact these mgrs cannot make a decision to save their lives makes any other company a better alternative.

@ivd stupid old man living on this website in different identities, using the same lines he learnt from someone else.

OP - Then get out of Intel, it you have any employment options.

OP, you are the type of employee Intel needs to get rid of. What irks me most about long-time Intel folks are their ungrateful attitudes. Intel has above average compensation, has not had as many layoffs as other companies in our industry and has many great perks. Somehow, these ingrates believe that Intel owes them something. Layoffs are just a necessary evil in our business. With Intel on your resume, you should be able to find work easily.

Just ask yourself if a constant thrash of managers and a constant thrash of re-org after re-org is a healthy company? I took VSP in June - 18 yrs and at least 16 or 17 different managers. I know everyone who has worked at Intel knows the constant change of management. This is not a healthy company.

I was ISP in 2015 after 19 years at Intel and absolutely love my new job. The culture and people are fantastic. Best thing that's ever happened to me.

Honestly, I don't know why it took you 14 years to finally feel that way. I was there for 16 yrs (ERPed in June, THANK GOD) and I felt the way you feel now since day 1 (I kid you not). My first day I realized what a mean person the guy who hired me was. I was also told ""Now you know why we had to hire from outside. No one would work for him".

There's more but I'm not going to go into it. I only stuck around, hating the culture and company, because it was a well paying job. I bought whatever CPU I felt like when I needed a new computer because I didn't give a sh|t. They sure didn't give one about me! Then after several years I thought I should just get out but the SERMA kept me there (I HATE leaving money on the table and wanted it, darn it! lol). So..... I held on, waiting for my 'Rule' to come up so I could get the heck out. What was agonizing was being eligible to retire, yet trying to hang on a little longer for a package. I ALMOST didn't make it and came this close to leaving without one.

I am SOOOO SOOOO SOOOO happy not to be there any longer. But it is interesting to be on this board to see what's going on in the inside.

I wish you much luck and hoping your last 4 months isn't as hate filled as mine were.

You must work at TMG cause us FSM'ers are partying like it's 1999.

Yup intel has passed the tipping point, that is why no matter where you look the dark side overwhelming exceeds any bright points. Having spend a good two decades never have I seen it so sad what has become. Very happy I was forced out or I'd be one of he many that should but couldn't walk away because of the money, selling my soul to the devil a little more every year.

I ask those that stay why? For many they have little choice.

OP, happiness and pride and feeling good is worth far more than one more bonus or stock grant.