Thread regarding Intel Corp. layoffs

Constructive confrontation is long gone, as are most of the original intel values.

In TMG, the feedback about manager performance was being done every once in a while. Though the feedback was done anonymously, the managers still attempted to find out which employees were responsible for writing the critical reviews. This was more important to them than actually resolving the issue that had been stated. Incidentally the managers never seemed to complete their ARs as they demanded their subordinates to!

@4ypa That might work if HR or senior execs gave a damn about feedback.

So called anonymous feedback is a trap to find uppity employees.

Anonymous feedback on the manager is the way to fix focal misuse by managers.

"We all know that FOCAL creates a back-stabbing and brown-nosing culture and is a totally subjective review by the FLM. It is never a fair process but HR fails to come up with something better."

That's the other broken part of Intel culture: being too arrogant and/or ignorant to see what's working elsewhere and adopting it. So many senior leaders at Intel have basically only ever worked at Intel.

BK and the h1b who are now senour manager level are making sure competent people including those granted the VPness are allowed to stay. Wr used to gave some decent vp level people but I don't think any are left because competence became a threat under the BK/Indian h1b era

We all know that FOCAL creates a back-stabbing and brown-nosing culture and is a totally subjective review by the FLM. It is never a fair process but HR fails to come up with something better.

@1kqz said: "So, didn't Andy ask for the process that has been steadily consuming Intel?"

Absolutely - and Grove deserves responsibility for not anticipating the (presumably) unintended consequences of what he wrought... but it was the responsibility of subsequent leadership to anticipate and make changes to win the proverbial future. And all since have failed.

Nearly all of the companies that implemented rank and yank rating in the 80's and 90's have since ditched them largely for the reasons that Intel should. For some it was too late and for others change plus the right leadership resulted in rejuvenation and reinvention.

My time at Intel was relatively brief but it was like no where else I've worked. The culture really, truly is broken in a way to will take some amazing leadership, grit and time to fix. DB, for whom I worked closely, is no where near up to the job, by the way.

@1wct - I believe you are correct as to the root cause, focal. Just a little more history.

Andy Grove felt that Intel had become so powerful that comparisons needed to be made inside of the company and not against the competition. He asked an HR leader to design a focal process that stressed internal competition. That HR exec did so and later became the very first female CIO for Intel. (No, not who you think.)

So, didn't Andy ask for the process that has been steadily consuming Intel?

And then you have those Principal Engineers who wake up at 2 AM to respond to an issue. They come into work the next day having concocted a story about how they were inflicted with an ergo injury while typing on their keyboard in bed. Poor baby! Then recognized for resolving his own made up injury. What a joke the place has become. Oh, and the real issue wasn't handled.

corrupted focal turned into a gang war and the cliques took over

absolutely vile working environment

With virtual monopoly, competition turned from competitors to among Intel employees. The FOCAL process exacerbated this and soon there was a whole generation or three of Intel "leaders" who weren't really good at anything other than working at Intel.

Yep

Forget VP, even directors are nothing more than politicians these days. The last director of the group before I left was a horrid engineer that everyone hated because he treated everyone like dirt as soon as he entered MBA program.

Word.