Thread regarding Intel Corp. layoffs

O promo, 12% raise, $200k+ tcomp, feel pretty good in a lower cost geo. I’d be annoyed if I was in $SC$ though; Intel pay is not great there. Friend at Apple makes $180k for a Grade 5 equivalent position.

Successful, 3% increase, ssl 2, $123k, 4th yr in grade 8! How underpaid am I? 16 years in, 2 more til rule of 55.

Grade 6, 1.8% Raise, SSL5... not a warm fuzzy feeling about the SSL5 or increase. Manager says "you're on track".. since this is only my second review period at Intel, not sure how this impacts my mobility within the company.

i got a raise and realized I am still underpaid compared to others in the industry....go go Inhell.

Gr8, Successful, 2% & SSL3. 4th consecutive successful....

@9yft as I understand things there’s a target on to squeeze middle management. Need to create areas for the millennials to grow now. There will be some irate managers about as a lot wont like it. It’s this way or cut 2/3 k like before.

@9yft sounds like you have hit your ceiling. You are probably doing a great job and are happy in your role but ambition is what matters in Intel. If your not ruthless to get to the next grade then the clock is ticking. With comments like you got it sounds like there is something coming down the line. It’s nothing personal. But as the saying goes only the paranoid survive.

4% and SSL3. Was happy with it but was told I am 5 years on same grade and be conscious of this. Anyone get similar feedback ?

2.4%, SSL3, G8 (3 years since last promo), 131k, pay range in G8 is 101k - 151k and mid is around 126k. If I don't get a promo is the next 2 years - I am gone. In a frustrated dead end job with no scope to move up. Actively looking for an internal or external move. Got a typical Intel manager (my 19th in 13 years) who is new to the team and plays it safe as usual. I have had 2% raises and SSL3 in all the years except my promo years. Started in G3 13 years back and moved quickly to G7 - stuck in G7 for 4 years and now for 3 years in G8. I think I am done at Intel....Unfortunately, not too many jobs in Phoenix, AZ with 160k+ T-Comp and I cannot move due to family reasons....

GL57(non-exempt)1.98%, Successful, SL3.

Good news was boss said I benefited from some kind of special adjustment. I was silly and thought i must rock to be "special". White male with 33% boost, OMG! Upon further study I'm still about mid of the grade range. I think my pay fell so far behind the market some computer in the HR cloud arbitrarily noticed the bone in my behind.

Now i am watching happy h1b diversity peers high five their promos and I realize I am nothing special after all. Same old l3 stock, same old s rating with 1% merit, same old not quite your turn to move up, .... Now I'm getting paid more and as an OWG drone I fear I will soon be expelled from the hive. That's OK, I can join the other dude fishing for steelhead. That sounds pretty good.

There must be easy math formulas to give fixed amount of total money and stocks to a group. Maybe somebody can figure it out, so no guessing.

somebody mentioned that stock allocation for 2018 is lower...

@2bag It is really difficult for a manager to give SSL1, because the allotments nearly double from one level to the next, and managers get an overall budget for their whole team. So if they give SSL1 to one team member, then the whole rest of the team has to get SSL4-5. And as managers know now, SSL4 marks team members for the next VSP/ISP round.

Why is it that hard to believe that some of us actually like our jobs, feel appreciated, are paid well, and have a work life balance? Not all of Intel is a terrible place. I’m sorry your career didn’t pan out well here.

Compare the comments on the Intel Layoff board to any other company and you will see the stark difference between Intel people and other companies. The Intel board tells you all you will ever need to know about Intel, its employees and former employees. After I left Intel I realized in the first week that my freedom is immensely more valuable versus voluntary corporate slave labor. I feel sorry for the people that are wasting their time and lives. One of the most incredible things to see is that people actually convince themselves that they enjoy their work, the commute, the time away from their families, competing with co-workers for slight increases in annual pay... Good luck. I'm planning my steelhead fishing trips for Northern Idaho today and I truly hope people will wake up soon and find their escape from self-induced corporate slavery and achieve true freedom. No one in your company cares about you or your family.

@2bag Promo stock is based on your pre promo grade, plus an amount which I believe is the difference of SSL3 of the two grades. G7 ssl1 is around $20k and ssl2 is $14k.

Any idea what's the median raise % this year?

Outstanding, Promo to G7, 13% raise to $114k (no differential), SSL2 = ~$11.5k

Overall I'm pleased, but I'm kind of disappointed with the stock: 1) What does it take to get SSL1, if not Outstanding and promo? 2) I feel like $11.5k is actually SSL2 of G6, whereas I thought they announced that stock grants for promos would be at the new grade. I was hoping for SSL1 at G7, which AFAIK is ~$23k.

How much did you guys get for ssl2? G7

@1dtf. One doesn't need to be a brown noser to get along with their boss and co-workers. Sadly it is a culture that only brown nosers stay on their jobs, as mentioned many times in this site.

G7, $115K, 3.2% increase, SL2, Successful

10% or even 20% is absolutely possible. we all know BK got 47% increase in 2016 in lieu with big layoff

@1nur Let me fix this for you:

A--holes: SSL 4&5

Non-a--holes: SSL 1&2

Of course, the a--holes often don‘t realize that they are a--holes and think they are just „speaking their minds“ or some BS like that, while they think that non-a--holes, i.e. people with at least basic social skills, are brown-nosers, just because they are capable of getting along with their boss and co-workers.

I am just laughing about all the people here who go „10%? That‘s impossible because I never got 10%!“ Don‘t these people realize that it says much more about them than about Intel or the Focal system?

My assumption is that the higher end of each pay grade is intended for those who stagnate in that grade (everyone plateaus at some grade eventually).

If you're being promoted frequently then you don't spend many years in each grade, you may not get above the mid. Typically when you're promoted you'll start below the mid in the new grade. But when you spend more than a couple years in a grade you'll move to the higher end.

Edit to previous post: not median, but “mid”. Pay range does not give info on distribution.

I wonder how many people are actually at or above the median in the range; and the high seems excessively high. I’ve been promo’d 3 times and not once did I ever get above the median base pay pre-promo.

I have seen the pay scales for US engineers, and they have increased about 6% compared to 2015 (less for higher grades), so there are no large across the board increases.

I'm guessing that either 1) some people are being moved from the very low end of the scale up a ways, or 2) the geo differential for the Bay Area has increased considerably.

For the G7 guy in SC, what is the median listed as for you? The US median for G7 is $119K.

10% bump without a promo? I've never gotten that much in all my 20 yrs at Intel.

Sounds like some folks got good raises in their dreams, definitely outside of Intel. In reality, it is about the same as the past few years ... you know what it is if you are still at Intel.

There was a lot of noise in the past several BUMs about Intel’s salary uncompetitiveness, especially in $$ Bay Area, and HR was supposedly looking into this more. If this Focal cycle reflects improvements, then it is a good thing for employees.

Brown nosers ---> SSL 1 & 2

Non-brown nosers ---> SSL 4 & 5

It has always been this way.

No, managers can get a special budget if their team members were outside of the pay range for several years. The budget can easily be 20%.

It‘s one of those many components of the Intel rating and salary system that you have to game as a manager at Intel.

Whatever the outcomes are, the Focal process is as opaque as ever. Favoritism and bias rampant. Actual performance means nought. BK is an idiot to think one training class will make the managers competent.

27% raise? 20% without a promo? Those are definitely lies.

Why did OP want to know the results?

In reality, all just singing Mambo No5. "One, two.., three, four, five."

You trolls are full of it with your made up double-digit raises.😂

same here..got a 27% hike with a promotion