We can't hire anyone worth their salt anymore. I don't blame anybody for not wanting to join this mess. We have built a reputation for being terrible over the last decade and people know by now that anyone who works here is going to have to put up with a lot of cr-p. I don't see a bright future for this place.
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@csd+1lmqTWxR I don’t work on a factory floor, but if someone tried pulling that with me, they’d find themselves on their back, looking up at the ceiling, wondering what in the fuhk just happened. I’d be waiting for my escort off the premises out front after turning boss’s lights out.
Went to Intel with the intent of staying there a fixed amount of time and it
worked out that way.
Most of the manufacturering work is not interesting enough to motivate top talent in my opinion.
I don't think top talent is passionate about doing repetitive menial tasks. Just my opinion. They want to be creative and build something cool and have lots of autonomy.
It's not about pay, the pay is fine, it's not about the brand, it's strong historically. The work itself is really boring, so much so that the environment is toxic because there is not much else to do. It's really easy to sniff this out when you have an interview, and even more so when you start working.
vjx+1lmqTWxR is right on the button. Facilities "engineers" with art degrees. Plenty of "engineers" that never heard of a control loop, know what a pump curve is, or ever heard the words fluid and dynamics used in the same sentence. Openings being filled by HR with no input on the candidates by the manager.
It's been broken for over 15 years and what was sown is now being reaped.
Loved the place in the old days with Grove. Barrett started the sift to sh-t. I wouldn’t go back for a million dollars a day. F* Intel
Lots of RCGs with liberal arts degrees got hired to do engineering work in the last few years. People with barely a high school degree as well. That is the current state of Intel.
Intel doesn’t need more employees. It is overstaffed with current HC total 130k. Max intel needs is 60k employees. 70k employees need to go.
When you only hire RCG or people who follow a Messiah and are fanatical believers you creat a poisonous and closed culture
It looks like lots of folks graduated from school, were hired by Intel and have never worked for another SEMI company. I worked as a Litho engineer for several years at a Silicon Valley based company. To say the environment was toxic is an understatement! Every day there would be two passdown meetings between engineers, mfg supervisors and plant managers. I have seen other engineers berated, red faced screamed at and effenheimer thrown around in these meetings. It was a pressure cooker to say the least. I understand taking folks into account, but there is a much more professional way to do this. The work environment has changed quite a bit in the last 15 years, since those days. Intel is a job, but overall my experience has been mostly positive. YMMV
Yep, and that's why I have just resigned :-)