Thread regarding Intel Corp. layoffs

@2Jtzz - That's right. Also evil managers assigned their SSL4s and SSL5s to people they didn't particularly like or saw as competition because of their technical skills/experience or both. This usually ended up removing the best individual contributors from teams (also the most expensive, which was the primary purpose of ACT - cost cutting). People who were workhorses and experts in their particular areas were walked on the whim of a clueless manager, all because they were not political players or members of the boys or girls clubs. That's all Intel is right now, race and/or gender based clubs plotting and backstabbing each other. Meritocracy and customer orientation are completely dead.

racist gangs used ACT to remove opposition.

F--- im working there, disgusting, crazy baby management, they tried to control my whole life, they tried to hack my personal email account from oregon, and many other shameful stuff... trying to get a job in my country cause this place s---s!

Oh yeah, managers quitting and replaced by other managers would have certainty helped somehow. /s

Agree. Intel mgrs are nothing but slime. The only way they get promoted to management is by first buddying up to mgmt, becoming friends, attending barroom discussions with them, golf course play and conversation, meanwhile sticking it to any former friends they may have used and abused to get the pleasure of transforming themselves into a scumbag mgr. Doesn't matter that they ultimately lose any engineering skills when they can simply fire those below them to maintain their own job. Disgusting.

Don't hate the player; hate the game.

ACT - and the silent layoffs since - should have been a wake up call for everyone at Intel, manager or otherwise. No one is safe. You are one S-rating or re-org away from being walked out the door with or without any severance.

Good times are not ahead for Intel and cuts are assured. When? Where? How? Roll of the dice. But they're coming...

You're probably stuck in Hillsboro or some other company town. Maybe been working at Intel so long you have golden handcuffs. But the writing is on the wall: Start figuring out your exit options before you're on the street.

@1xra. Good write-up.

Feel for the poor overcompensated managers who have no skills but to ACT and su€K their boss c0ck and are trapped.

The worst is the head of HR (then RT), who orchestrated ACT while accelerating hiring of young, recent college graduate students. ACT wasn't about head count reduction, it was about cost reduction. Fire more expensive employees, older employees while simultaneously hiring younger. We still do this today. IT is firing this week, including individuals with advanced CS degrees, while lobbying for HIB visas because Intel claims there is a shortage of CS, then hiring young, recent college graduates to backfill.

Craig Barrett wasn't the friendliest person, but he sure as hell didn't go on a hiring spree while firing people, now for two+ years running.

Meanwhile the CEO who shorted INTC, and trails the S&P 500 remains employed. Go figure.

I am an Intel manager and I loved ACT. Was a necessary evil.

I saw someone that works successfully at Intel for 36+ years walked out the door on Monday morning with no advanced notice and with no bad performance review. This person was an absolute expert and helpful to everyone. There are incredible stories from 2016 that Intel should be completely ashamed of.

There's another simple test OP for those that were walked in 2015 and 2016, if you are still without a job whining about it, trolling on this board, YOU DESERVED IT!

Lol..you are seeking a Gandhi ? Everyone has mouth to feed and will not sacrifice their career for yours

OP, Intel manager, at least most of them, can not quit because they don't know how to do any engineering work as an IC.