There are fewer and fewer people left at Intel who have more than a few years with the company under their belts. We are losing institutional knowledge at an astounding rate - I'm not even talking about layoffs, I'm talking about attrition - and nobody seems to care. Can somebody please explain the logic of this to me?
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This started in 2016 with the big layoff mess of BK and Kim Stevenson, and has only gotten worse.
Real talent people cannot work along with Intel id--ts. Retain them for what reason?
To Intel, you're just another number. If you're tied into the politics, even when you're a mediocre employee, you're less likely to be impacted. Intel doesn't care about those that have the knowledge or are committed to the role/company. Someone else can or will be made to do your job. Doesn't matter if you're the best at it. It all comes down to how much you're costing the company and whether you've managed to play along. Sometimes it has to do with the elimination of the group.
I think good talent leaves for elsewhere. Either a person is considering retiring or does not have the skills to get out. 'BK' and to some extent Paul Otellini really set the company on a long slow path of mediocracy. Over hiring of cheap, but 'good enough' is a death sentence.
This is Bidenomics.
Talents got laid off. Only id--ts left. No need or reason to retain.
Its great to lose institutional knowledge. Only then you can re-think the institution.
I miss the Intel that I went to work for 25-years ago, I don't miss the Intel that I left recently.
They have a point about the most valuable and skilled employees being surrounded by support employees that don't do sh1 t
@1zlo+1rPjOKqR. Oh the horrors of being "Software Engineer" and doing the work. Get over yourself dude. You are the weakling these jobless are talking about.
As a Software Enginner from the IT perspective it's pretty frustrating. Intel's infra team, cloud team (always redirect to Microsoft, not sure why this team exists), internal data science teams, are mostly worthless... The software engineers have to stand up their own infra, setup their own cloud environments, figure out the networking quirks, setup our own databases, plan our own redundancy mechanisms, work with the high-school level data science groups that can't write a line of code to save themselves, work directly with the customers and BU's on project criteria and road map, perform the project management, because the PM's don't know what Jira is, lead the scrum since the PM's and managers don't understand the business requirements or what a wafer is, then they increase your scope and augment your team with indian contractors that pretend to work for weeks and take several weeks of vacation as soon as they are assigned to the project, then you waste time getting them up to speed because they don't know how to SSH into a linux machine, then they get swapped out for some fresh contractors and you start again, and then finally you get to write a bit of code at night.
Then your OKR's come around and they ask you to jump higher when they should be paying you at least 3 combined salaries.
I wonder why anyway stays.
There are so many dysfunctional organizations full of dead weight that literally contribute nothing.
As others have pointed out DEI (Didn't Earn It) is a huge issue. The managers are truly not technical and pitch dog and pony shows with no merits when they aren't stealing others work.
For my organization, the managers are new to Intel, they like people who can obey them like a slave. They do not care about technical work because they tell lies to Ann to make Ann happy and get promotions. For example, they tell Ann they did a great project which is fake, Ann can only understand colorful slides which are fake.
If you are still at intel at this late stage it is because: 1) You're close to retirement and waiting it out; 2) On cruise control as no work is required; 3) Praying for the layoff payout; 4) Can't make it anywhere else; 5) DEI hire, see #4.
HR is so smart. They are saving on both salaries and not having to do CPM work.
Intel has gone nuclear with DEI. People are tired of being passed over for promotions while watching incompetent DEI people being promoted.
I know several G10/11 that are completely incompetent that have gone from G6 to G11 in very short times.
Meanwhile I know some awesome engineers that can't get passed G9 after 25 years. Younger smart engineers have seen how things work at intel and they are leaving.
Intel can’t afford to keep good talent around.
It’s just simple economics.
Companies that make more money can afford to pay for better talent.