There are too many candidates who apply for an open position.
How much does having Intel on resume help? What are your experiences?
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The older you are, the less patient you will be with grad school. The reasons are:
- A good chunk of the content will be stuff you already know
- Another sizable chunk of content will be useless and irrelevant to what you want to do
- Some professors will just rant their political views and other irrelevancies because they are tenured and can’t be fired
Look for focused certifications to gain specific knowledge of value, and consider smaller companies to apply to. You’ll be better off.
@1ics, I understand the rational behind your comment but nothing you said applies to my situation.
I don't know what your skillset is, but as soon as I found out I'm going to be laid off, I updated my Linked In profile to let potential employers/recruiters know that I'm looking and I started getting messages daily. Jobs are out there. There's practically an epidemic of employable workers that are simply refusing to work right now.
On the other hand, I've been at Intel for almost 30 years and I've been on redeployment five times, but this time is very different. I don't expect to find another job at Intel this time. Looking at Workday, the lack of job openings within the company is worse than it was 2002. Combine that with the huge shift in direction toward foundry and you realize that internal jobs for non-manufacturing positions are going to be near-impossible to find.
Many industry outsiders don't follow the industry or how delayed intel has been for years of product releases. Kinda depends what you're going for, it can easily look OK on your resume if you're changing careers. I would not bring up any company shortcomings or failures, and move the focus to your own skills. Playing it down helps, it's easy to come off as too arrogant coming from intel given your real skills.
My experience - as a business tech person not a SWE or HWE etc - was that a lot of big name companies (Amazon, Facebook, Google, Microsoft) and glittery startups (Databricks, others I’ve forgotten) were like “whatevs” to my having Intel on my resume. Still got offers but Intel wasn’t impressive.
Mid-tier and smaller companies- particularly outside of the Silicon Valley tech set- were like “Whoa!” Salesforce, Allstate, Instacart, & a couple other insurance companies, some banks, etc.
Having a connection in the company willing to refer me was the golden ticket to interviews.
Don’t go back to school, you’ll just add years of lost income and debt. You don’t need yet another degree. Find a job, contract, start a company.
You don't know who is swimming na--d until the tide goes out...
The only thing on my resume is that I am an experienced Encore user. Encore doesn't really do anything. It is an internal tool that sort of does what a more expensive license tool could do, but most of the time we are just fixing Encore.
The job search got really difficult around the beginning of Q3, prior to that I had no problem finding a job.
My solution? Back to school full time.
Publishing an open position unleashes a huge tsunami of applicants.