Left Intel thought it be easy to get a job. Early 50s, took nine month basicly used up the package money. Still have kids in college so have to work. I never realized how good intel was. Now I work 60 hours plus. Calls to Tiwan and banglore on their time zone. I am going to die with these hours. I am by far on the oldest side of range. Get out now if u can
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if you are an employee you ALWAYS will be terminated... no company, department or biz is forever..
@tpx Do you know what a "self-contradiction" is? The post contradicts itself. Perhaps the English language isn't your forte so you couldn't tell!
Where do you work now, OP?
The world needs ditch diggers too
@wcw It‘s not nonsense just because you are too dumb to get the point.
Intel is "GPTW" only because sometimes you do nothing for days (like a plant). Everything else is terrible - politics, politics, politics...
@RtVvsii-lmr Good for you, my thoughts and experience like yours, good to be out of that hole, even as Gr10 so hapoy
OP is senile and can't make up his mind whether Intel is good or not. The post is complete nonsense.
I was laid off at > age 50 and with > 20 years when I was just shy of reaching retirement rule of 75.
At Intel, yes the historical compensation was good and there were GPTW perks and awesome paternity care with great benefits. However, I there was A LOT of work, long hours, too many meetings all day but with the expectation to do tons of work every single night. I worked 60-80 hours per week. My mind was working on Intel day and night and it was rare if I had a single day in a week that I wasn't online in the late evening or weekend. I was expected to be reachable 24X7. Most nights I was on -line working until 12 midnight and some days I started the day with a 6am global meeting. I had to cancel personal vacations and sabbaticals because of Intel priorities. And when on a personal vacation with my family, I worked and worked for Intel - it didn't matter if I was in the Bahamas or Europe with my family, I was on line, working for Intel on and off through out the vacation, all the while apologizing to my family for spoiling our personal trip. At Intel, there were no business class trips every quarter as the other poster here mentioned The intensity and expectations at Intel was beyond normal and I accepted it as "normal" and assumed that going to be the way of the world no matter where I went.
After being laid off, I found another job outside Intel and I found something odd occurred. During the interview folks were actually super engaging, friendly and nice to me. When I spoke about my children, the interviews wanted to know more about ME. When I shared that job security and family/work balance was important, they didn't write me off. I took the job and found that I'm working <50 hours a week. And people are NICE! They are caring and kind. You aren't competing with your co-worker or your boss, trying to survive and climb your way to the top. You are appreciated and they tell you every day. Folks stop by your office and introduce themselves and welcome you to the company. It's like a whole new world out there beyond Intel. And yes, I'm over 50 and it was scary and not easy...but it can be wonderful on the other side of Intel. I agree when it comes to compensation Intel is a GPTW. But only a GPTW in reference to compensation When it comes to work-life-balance, treating employees like human beings, truly appreciating people and recognizing how important people are in order to achieve the company's vision / mission, Intel is not a GPTW. There are genuine GPTW's out there beyond Intel with solid corporate values that put their employees high on their list. You just have to find them. Like the Harvard Biz Review on corporate culture mentioned it is "results" that is the #1 cultural trait, but the #2 culture trait is "caring for your employees". Intel may have #1 culture trait when it comes to results (accomplishments focused culture, climbing stock price / strong balance sheet, etc.) but when it comes to cultural trait #2, in my opinion Intel doesn't have it.
The young and ambitious should leave ASAP unless su€king €0ck is their love.
The old of they are good can score a job, but the thing is they might actually have to work instead of B$ like what most old people do at Intel.
Ain’t no wonder the company ain’t going anywhere and still milking the x86 monopoly and failed at everything else
Intel is GPTW although many don't realize it. Very little work, lots of meetings day in day out to chit chat, whatever little work you have just delegate it, very good tcomp. Biz class trips every quarter for shopping and nice hotel, dinners, drinking sessions. Unfortunately most just complain instead of seeing how easy things are in Intel.
You got fired OP because you can't spell and you are a lying troll.
If Intel's better than your current situation, then why would people want to leave? The OP asking people to get out doesn't make sense. Useless troll post.