In Bay Area where many options are available to employees intel pay ranges forces you to hire leftovers and mostly 3rd tier people stay with intel. in other low cost sites like Oregon people don't have many options to switch I think.
People who are young and trained talented will go to other companies with double salary.
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The single most deadly reason is that Intel's management really have no expertise. They may have advanced degrees, they may have been good in their early years, but after they are promoted, the are told to give up technical work. This is done in order to protect company's knowledge base so that they can't hurt the company if they leave.
When these people get into senior positions, they are very vulnerable to the flattering optimism of the Indians. They have no idea of their own, so they latch on to DEI for easy promotions. They are insecure, so they are constantly in-fighting. They don't know what to do, so they hire "head counts" like taking hostages. When the time gets harder, they are paralyzed by fear and don't even know where to cut. It's a sitting duck.
Probably Kodak, PanAm, and the like are all like this. It's an aging process. They can't look to their younger days for solutions. It's not the same thing anymore. But that is all they know.
Too many, don't know where to start...
- Good decisions produce good results, bad decision produce bad results.
- Arrogance.
- Stubbornness.
I can have my pick of Google, Apple, Facebook etc and I choose to work for Intel.
Only the best can work here.
Just kidding…
Software engineers at Intel are bottom feeders that can get outperformed by Bay Area high school students.