If an employer gets to choose between a former Meta engineer and a former Intel engineer, who do you think they're going to choose? Spoiler alert: it's not Intel. It's never going to be Intel. Twitter engineers might not have been a threat, but those let go from Meta certainly are.
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They will not pick up Meta engineer! probably, they may have very high salary expectation.
The question really is, would they hire a wothless fat mouth lifer indian from Intel over anyone from anywhere?
This garbage poster doesnt even know that meta/twitter/amazon never produced a solid hardware product. Must be a typical CS bachelors or masters from a garbage school. Intel is mostly a hardware company. Any day a hardware engineer from Intel will win over these other hardware engineers from software companies. The real hardware competition lies with Apple, and AMD. I am excluding NVIDIA since it is like half software and half hardware.
I actually had this same concern (I would be competing with these other big-name layoffs and my Intel brand wouldn’t stand up to their insert SV tech company here brand, so I talked to a friend the other day who works in recruiting/hiring at a tech company in SV.
She assured me I would be fine and that some of these tech/app companies actually throw a yellow flag for many recruiters - Meta and Twitter included. She said despite everyone wanting to work for them, in most recruiters eyes, they don’t really produce S tier Alumns. Something about the culture and competencies - they kinda live in a bubble.
Intel is still well respected by recruiters as a company that produces very strong, driven, diverse, and intelligent Alumns (though that may change over time as our brand continues to erode). She said we are more on par with Amazon, Microsoft, other semis (AMD/NVIDIA), big 4 consultancies (I’m in finance so this may be more specific to me), and perhaps a step below Apple/Google/other huge brands like McKinsey/Bane.
Entire operations does not run by just SWE. You need hardware engineering too !!!
Candidate : "I worked on the metaverse."
Employer : "The meta-what? Why?"
Right they will pick a Meta HW eng that has never worked on a commercialized producct.
Here's an idea .. try getting a life and stop being a boring troll.