Intel was good company and there are still some good employees, although fewer and fewer.
The higher on the pyramid the more clown like it is.
Vicious cycle, where clown hires alike, is one of the roots of Intel deterioration.
Other root is that demons of broken values roam and spread like disease.
Third root as engineering standards deterioration lays in what some call power points and engineering detached or vision reality detached smoke and mirror primarily driven by clowns self interests milking what is left of Intel's monopoly cadaver. High level technical employees are progressively reality attached as their skills are smoke and mirror. Management chain is even worse measured by their required mix of expertise or rather heavy lack of. By internal numbers less than 1 in 10 PE's has any hands on skills, while in other small-mid-big high tech companies this ration is reverse 9 in 10 or more. Often employee with hands on skills is increasingly looked unfavorably and pushed to convert to bad culture and deteriorated standards to produce same smoke and mirror power points.
Fourth is heavily political HR that constantly fails to address things in correct way.
There is nobody to from above, like former founders, to see this and clean it.
Other companies can be found to have similar problems although not at this level and mix, except likes CISCO and Linkedin to which nobody wants to look up to.
Suggestions and corrections to this picture welcome.
Sante!