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When I left Intel, it was already going downhill and this was almost a decade back. Good employees will also see through and make a move and we all know how the negative spiral works.

FWIW, my previous comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27597749, more than 3 years back. It seems they have hit real rock bottom with no way up!

Do they value any employee at all? As per the latest grapevine, they have stopped giving RSU refreshers as well; I guess that may be a smart decision if they know all the smart horses have left the stable.

If there is one company that is neck to neck to win the title of a toxic workplace, it should be Intel. Very similar passionate hatred when you talk to ex Intel engineers especially of the past decade.

I had made an observation about this in a past comment of mine. [1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27597749

If this is what they mean by shakeup then it’s just the regular stuff in recent Intel past.

When I was at Intel in 2 years I saw at least 6 reorgs and had 4 managers. You can imagine my career growth or the lack of it. Unfortunately it needs a real deep clean of non technical power pint happy management and clueless engineers.

And the politicking is so deeply entrenched in culture now that the new CEO himself might be a victim of it if he is under false illusion that restoring Intel to past glory is just about turning a few knobs.

Thankfully I left for a FAANG before it was too late with a wonderful hike, better colleagues and working conditions. The most irsksome thing for Intel to attract back those who have left is almost no one of those I know and in touch with who have left wants to be back and it’s not the money but the poor experience of working there.

If anyone can give Amazon a run for its money in treating its employees badly, my bet is on Intel.

I think another HW (Semiconductor) company is facing the same problem; its competitor is surging ahead full steam and the future may put the smartphone as one of the inflection points where it all began, connecting the dot backwards of course.

I am working at the leading edge of both 3D gfx HW and SW.

It is worse in Europe, but try getting a FANG job in Europe and they still pay extremely well.

My base pay is 150K pounds and not in London! Definitely I have a very niche skill in demand and I had to work really hard and be luck at the same time, to land at this role, but I will any day pick Europe with all the other benefits that a European country gives me.

Why did Apple not release their new MBP 16 with the 3950X? [1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21523780

I had a Meltdown ;-) after an exactly similar process. Hmm, what company was that?