In Intel, every team is bigger than what is required. Years of market domination and naked profiteering has bred lot of inefficiency. All the job cuts that happen also are not improving efficiency but just reduce work. Managers are so incompetent that they just think when jobs are cut, they just get less work done.
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Oh please, 'doers' is so 1996! We don't need any doers, 'doing' was devalued, outsourced or offshored long ago and so now who can blame people for trying to get ahead by 'not doing'?
Heh, I always observed the opposite. Take mobile, or Atom, or any non-microprocessor development: they were always understaffed, didn't have the best people, and had unrealistic deadlines and/or feature sets. Really half-assed efforts. One EB goal was typically tape-in by "x date" -- so the division would tape-in a crappy A0 to meet the bonus. Maybe they'd get something marketable by C1. The only group that consistently had their sh-- together was Q&R.
Low efficiency is because of too many talkers not enough doers. Layoff makes it even worse."
That's very true. The promotion process encourages talkers and frustates doers who leave at the first chance. That is why company leaders now make great presentations but are very poor in getting products to the market.
Low efficiency is because of too many talkers not enough doers. Layoff makes it even worse.