What skillset do you need to become one ?
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You need to be from the right part of the world. If you look at the statistics for who's an an existing PE... you'll know which part.
You don't need any special skill. Just know how to network with upper managers and kiss their a-s to get the tittle
My manager basically stole my work behind my back and got the credit she didn't deserve. Shame on you!
I have since left Intel, but I thought the PEs in our team were pretty decent.
Well-developed facial extremities, nose and tongue in particular.
Power Point?
I was on a patent committee for years. I finally quit because intel was filling useless patents PEs and VPs were filing and declining the useful inventions submitted by G6-G9 engineers.
PE = Political Engineer. That should be self-explanatory. And if you are a URM, you automatically go to the top of the PE list (Hint: Intel is not a meritocracy).
Lie cheat steal
Wow. So many experts on how to climb the ladders the old way.
steal someone else's idea
join one or more minority groups
a-s kiss
be from the same village
there are plenty of options here except by merit
america sat its fat corrupt a-s on merit and suffocated it
A good su-kera of di-kera
MUST::/ assa kissera of managera. check some candidates of promotions email. SHAMEShameSame
A long nose that can't or won't smell.
Politics and DEI
DEI Tech admin in our team was selected earlier. I argued with my 2nd and 3rd level managers and that's what they told me or admitted
- By having lived in the same village as the othe principal engineers.
- Brown-nosing.
- Smoke-and-mirrors product and/of feature-set.
- Copy-paste someone else's work, change a few words around, call it your own.
Politics.
You MUST have the art of
- Effectively shooting down other people's ideas
- Find a problem statement that someone else has found and make it yours
- Develop an incredibly complicated solution to that problem. Simple wont work.
- Do groceries, walk the dog and other chores for current fellows and SR PE.
This will get you half way there. Then if you are DEI, thats the other half.
No technical skills required. You can become Principal at intel by creating processes that are decades old. Write patents that no one will use.
To become a Principal Engineer at Intel one must become highly proficient at PowerPoint.
That's it.
Title is valid only if the person can prove they/them can get principal in other competitive companies.
Even some non technical folks get it. They only need to have their hiring manager out in the “right” compensation codes.
Able to drop an Intel made chip on a board and fire it up until smoke or fire the building
It is a popularity contest of a powerful people nominating you and another set of powerful people voting for you. Do the math!