Those who survive this round of layoffs must be prepared to get drowned in more work, I don’t see any backfilling happening anytime soon.
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The brain drain already happened a very long time ago. The senior talented people, who don't pretend to work, all moved to Apple and helped create Apple Silicon. Apple is almost all ex-Intel. The only people remaining at Intel are the ones with no ambition who just want to milk the company for an easy paycheck. Intel's lack of competence in the market is completely predictable.
As a company, we've spent the last 10 years focused on social engineering as a higher goal than getting quality product out the door.
The "red carpet" program is probably the most egregious example. Over the last 10 years, if you were a URM with reasonable skills, you could write your own ticket. And yet we have this program for those who are universally unqualified to come in and get speed-dating interviews with hiring managers.
Meanwhile, seasoned engineers are being leeched out like crazy, when AMD offers them a huge pay bump to come over and the Intel response is to offer them 5% to stay.
The net result is that our best people leave for the cash and we hire in those who couldn't keep a job to save their lives to replace them.
And the brain-drain continues. This layoff will be no different, they won't lay off people based on seniority or value to the teams, they will layoff based on some demographic recipe, because to those at the top, it's just a numbers game (they don't care who goes, just that operating expenses go down), and to those executing the task (HR) it's a social justice program (they don't care about expertise, just that the group photos have enough "diversity").
Can't wait to train a bunch of new incompetents... again.
So many oldie timers just sitting around and playing games. They don't do the work nor let others bring in change. Boot them out and pay for their remaining services and hire young gen who know newer tech from Google etc
@pan+1jbo026z - Because they don't let people hire their own family members and members from their own community.
It’s management’s fault if the rank and file are lazy or unproductive. They setup the rules which can be taken advantage of.
There should be accountability.
Sadly, management is very corrupt and/or incompetent which leads to perverse incentives and poor results.
Lol. Everybody at intel works < 2 hrs/day. Now they will work < 3hrs/day. Still paid extra for 5 hrs/day.
It’s not just mgmt at fault, look at all the lazy useless engineers who politic there way in life.
How can AMD, Qcom, nvidia and Apple churn out higher quality products at a faster cadence with a fraction of the staff of Intel?
Really poor management.
Wow would you stick around?
ZBB will be the new buzzword… again.
There’s so much busy work during downtime’s I don’t think it will be that big a deal, honestly.