Something must be really really bad inside Intel? Where were the golden time of Intel inside? What happened to Intel inside?
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Intel is like a tree full of baboons. The lower branch baboons compete with each other on who can lick the as--s of higher branch baboons and feed on their droppings better. The better you are, the higher you go.
Products matter less than baboon a-s licking because only a-s licking gets you ahead. For products you need to focus on working with your peers but since their focus is on the manager, they only have toxicity for peers.
I don’t work for Intel but I guess everyone is trying to climb up corporation ladder. When the dump & id--ts climb faster than everyone else to sh-t down on the head of the lower climbers you will see obvious corruptions.
Nothing surprising... just same corporate issues all big businesses have. Favoritism, nepotism, and lots of back stabbing (and sometimes face stabbings).
One big malpractice that has affected Intel a lot is the PE pipeline. Managers & PMs who have limited technical skills are promoted into PE positions probably because the higher level managerial positions aren't available. PE promotion process has essentially been used by Senior Management as a progression tool indiscriminately, leading to depletion of Technical capabilities in the entire company.
VP+ are held to different standards than the rest of the employees. Grovian principles, OKRs, PIPs for employees while there is zero accountability for execs. How on earth you provide q1 guidance in Jan and not meet it in April and there is zero consequences. This is dismally below expectations, improvement needed but they are called the “dream team”.
There are friends and family hiring and promotions. Over and over again, I have seen VPs and above bringing their friends on board without any scrutiny and giving them titles, promos beyond their capability level and unfair to internal talent. HR and finance only act as enablers. No questions are asked. But when it comes to employees producing real results, it is impossible to get beyond meet expectations and 3% salary increases.
One time, I worked for a jack a-s VP. His children worked for intel. He shamelessly used one of our staff meetings to have one of his children present to us before presenting to an SVP. Basically a dry run. This VP did nothing other than attend meetings and use others’ presentation. I noticed that he used every imaginable diversity check box and various diversity HR initiates for his advantage.
There are lots of other examples. An Indian exec had intel capital fund a start up he invested. He was so cheap. He used company Amex to pay his lunches in the office.
Discriminating about female CEOs and female in general.
Running by the same old mind of non technical high paid individuals with lack of knowledges which we call as id--ts by modern engineering standard.
Therefore join a political party where there are real rewards instead of one fool after another feeling “influential”
"The top 3 level of managements are either lying or spreading the lies."
They don't know any physics or engineering.
Maybe some of them once did but not now.
They hire folks because they are cheap or because they are not a threat to management
(also with some DEI cr-p).
Intel now consists of mostly of these types of employees.
What did you expect was going to happen long term?
This company has been and will continue to degrade over time until it dies.
Higher management want to hear good news and only reward people talking and lying. The top 3 level of managements are either lying or spreading the lies.
Too many id--ts made wrong decision.
Real talents pi---d off and just left. Where is Jim Kelly?
MIT engineers disappeared
Managers setup to fail because of lack of knowledges.
I think the worst problem was lack of R&D investment, especially in manufacturing, in favor of stock buybacks and bad investments. That’s how we lost the lead to TSMC and AMD.
Wow.
People said Pat would change things.
Seems like it’s still a major sh?tshow.
Working less than 8 hours daily is also a type of corruption.
Intel pays for the business travel and some senior employees from the same country origin schedule a business trip and add vacation to the trip.
Easy hiring process and giving promotions to known extended family members of colleagues is also corruption.
Intels constructive confrontation was an opportunity to fight in atmosphere of mutual respect and it worked well for years. What changed? Entitled pricks. Look in the parking lot and find the abundance of BMW's and Teslas. Want to fix the that problem, start with the "Special Fancy" people who treat business decisions with the same attitude they use to get laid. Why are we tanking? EGO is the fatal flaw
Managers will block your career advancement once they find out you got a different better job in other groups. Some of them even fired employees that they don’t like even if you got new accepted offer.
I once saw a Code of Conduct video which described 10 patterns of bullying. I was amazed. These patterns describe a powerful bully I know of, 1-to-1. Everyone knows it. His manager knows it. HR is aware of it. But no one with any real decision-making power seems to care. Because like with everything else, Intel only knows how to talk the talk, not walk the walk.
Save cost by passing broken hardwares to other groups to get credits and waste people time.
Supreme ELT idiocy to block and tackle Google when Apple makes 20B for Google search.
What a bunch of stupid ar$es and fools!! Marketing AI PC and they can't grow brains and ba11s!
I was "written up" for making a joke about running with scissors. Note: No one actually ran with scissors. That's when I knew the stupids were in charge.
Not equal employment because most dump guys and a-s kissers got paid higher than average workers
Lack of management accountability, burden deferring, scapegoating , bureaucracy, not rewarding talent but rewarding a-s kissers , lack of transparency
OP is a keyboard warrior. You want to investigate corruption, go form a union and be on a strike till demands are met. Otherwise don't moan & b--ch
At G8 and lower levels the Rewards and Recognition program allowed people to recognise each other for cash payments for as much as 100 dollars or more each along with a silky little certificate. I led a team of 12 people and it was rife . I was G11 and told my G12 boss about and he said just authorise them, dont rock the boat as motivation is so low it’s the only way we can keep them . I reckon my team alone was creaming about 10 k a year on the back of this fiddle …. money wasted but more importantly an accepting widespread culture of complete corruption. At least CPM put a stop to a lot of it
How about when BK took over as CEO, not only did he tell VPs and above that he didn’t like any of them , but he actually paid several of them as much as 1m dollars to stay loyal to him.
Report fake and false test results to impress and hide real problems
Like a request from marketing to fake benchmarks or fake a pass on a failing test? No comment.
There was the time when I was asked to break international trade laws. I'm sure there are many who won't comment on this topic. lol
You must be asking about Brian Krzanich? He was absolutely not the only one in leadership who couldn’t keep his pants on. Someone should really write a book about the secrets of Intel management.
When we were winning, Intel was a cult and everyone drank the koolaid. This unquestioning devotion to the company wrecked many individuals and their families lives. Generations of individual contributors and low level managers thinking they could climb the ladder and be Uber wealthy if they just worked more and more overtime. This was all a fairytale promoted heavily by the “Intel Values” and “Intel “Culture”.
We ended up with a cabal of narcissistic executive pricks who ran the company into the ground while everyone adored them as heroes.
Pick some of the 7 deadly sins…
I’ll never forget the day a high level manager told me this:
“why spend all this time and money testing software drivers? Let’s just get it out the door and let the customer find the bugs like Microsoft does”.
That was the day I felt earth the shift in corporate culture.
Complacency and lack of true interest in leading edge technology. Barrett (1990s) marked the first of a long line of solely money motivated executives.
Making and selling interesting solid quality tested leading edge technology was replaced by leadership chasing bonuses for meeting roadmap deadlines at all costs.
Quality and reputation went out the window because of it.