Do you love it?
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I’m honestly too stupid to get anything comparable elsewhere.
Monkey loves bananas and Intel too.
I only work 152 shifts a year and my job is interesting and handy and I have great team.
If Intel closed tomorrow, no problem, I have a trade and a degree so I'll be in work on Monday. I choose to work here. Can leave anytime but I like the balance. An extra 10-15k means nothing If I'm working 2-3 more months a year to get it.
irm - you and many xerox and kodak employees are my favorite people. useful id--ts. i love them.
Intel has tons of great things going for it, especially for folks early in their careers. You can treat it like a well paid post-doc. Its super easy to switch teams and learn new skills. If you jump over to Google or Apple, they aren't going to teach you a thing, they will expect you to be an expert already. If you want to go from being a PTD dry-etch module owner to an EMIB assembly TCB role, Intel will let you do it and they will provide mentorship and training for you to succeed. Want to leave ATTD then and join GSC and learn the business side? They will let you and teach you. I had three distinctly different roles in 6 years at Intel which allowed me to learn a niche and high demand skill that allowed me to gtfo for 2x my salary. Utilize what Intel has to offer, enjoy playing with the tools and the labs and getting your hands dirty. Its a unique opportunity that doesn't exist elsewhere.
Because even if I chase tail and sniff butts I can feel important to be around top dogs and benefit from famous industry’s leaders like Andy Grove and PSO and the result is my feeling good about myself.
Go buy bananas from your local groceries please Intel cheap people. Let someone else do business inside Intel.
Free banana
I like living indoors
Good money, great coworkers, fantastic WLB
@irm Word salad.
You can’t overcome a lack of capital with ‘perseverance’. Semiconductor manufacturing is all about economy of scale and Intel lost it a long time ago.
To test my resilience, patience and the determination to move forward despite all the odds. I am building a story here, and I already have so much to tell to my mentees, colleagues and future employers. My narrative is all about perseverance, and how it always pays back in unexpected and impactful ways. I am also compiling a ton of materials to potentially publish a book in the future. Depending on how you look at the picture at Intel, you can see very different things. I am not happy with the lack of promotions, my current pay level, the dirty politics, and the never ending incompetency of "managers". However, it's not always about money or the negativity I experience everyday. To me, the value I am getting from Intel at the moment transcends all that, which is the key reason why I am still staying. A job will always be a job for me. I personally feel confident about finding a new job. I have changed many jobs before Intel and I have even been unemployed during the 2008 crisis and managed to come through just fine. However, I feel I am experiencing a historical moment in the history of an industry giant and I don't think I will be positioned at such a time in any of my future employers. Therefore, I am trying to make the most of what I already have until the very end.
The conference rooms are comfortable for sleeping.
Of course I do, I get free fruit every day
No, I don't love the stress, uncertainty, and looming threat of layoffs. But I'm loyal to my manager. Intel has been very good to me for many years, but I know they'll lay me off in a heartbeat, so my loyalty isn't with them, it's with a trusted friend who has been through a lot with me. As long as I'm still getting paid, I'll stay.
It’s not your business kid