Get over yourselves!

If two third of the world's female billionaires are in China, a country that doesn't give special favors to race or gender, female in this country can make it too. I, too, do not support special treatment to URM. Meritocracy lives!... — read more 

Much like the HBO series where 140 million people vanish from earth (due to heavenly rapture), in the coming weeks the effect of another 4-6k leaving Intel will shock, awe and traumatize "the Leftovers" that had to stay. So begins the drama of... — read more 

http://www.lightreading.com/components/comms-chips/tsmc-arm-look-to-break-intel-data-center-hegemony/d/d-id/723487

Nobody in Europe lost their jobs

Followed by management layoff and real flattening reorg

Please suggest candidates for Intel CEO/leader[s] that you really believe can revamp Intel and realize most or all of potential that lots of us see untapped for so long time. Internal and external, provide their name and rationale why you think they... — read more 

What is the rationale for forcing hiring of minorities even with bad skills, like in no other company that I can see. For a while A+ candidates were rare and I was disappointed seeing low quality candidates being hired, but what we can see with... — read more 

Whatever you speak or write to them goes to your FLM/SLM immediately. You should be careful writing anything against your manager to them.

There are SSL 5 that HR is safeguarding in their sham job re-deployment programs. Having already exceeded the time that was alloted to these candidates. ...A SSL 5 should not even be chosen for re-deployment... Is it fair to the many that were laid... — read more 

I went on long vacation. I came home. Things were still the same. The issues I have seen before I left were often in the same state, as if time has not passed. Customer get tossed around for months with little to no answers. Most people in Intel... — read more 

Keep it up and get out the popcorn, people really going crazy as the last pay checks arrive and others need to decide on VSP / ERP, makes god entertaining, go go go But let's post down good rumors that those that work can take to talk about when they... — read more 

There are certain people on this board that are under the impression that HR actually cares about posting on this board, Intel's reputation, spying on employees, entrapment and setting people up, and yada, yada, yada. HR is just like any other group... — read more 

https://medium.com/@jocelyngoldfein/the-innovation-dead-end-ee25f8aa090f#.gpgo6py4e

You study hard. You get through college and land a job. Work very hard to prove yourself. You start trying to live a normal life, wife kids and all that. You hardly have anytime left for anything. In the meantime technology passes you by. You become... — read more 

If I was simply counting on a W2 + bonus + RSU like now, it would have sucked bigtime.

It is obvious that BK lead to this flustercuck but how can the board reward the CEO with a raise even when a series of missteps leads to 12K layoffs??? It is only asking for more. Even if they eventually fire him who is going to fire them unless the... — read more 

I see a lot of dumbasses posting here. There is no better education to prepare you for the real world than engineering. You're taught to think logically and solve problems - not restricted to the domain of your specialty. For smart people - these... — read more 

Then I'll go on disability... You think it will work?

Think it will work?

If I didn't have anything else and was just an engineer that had to put up with this political/CEO crap all day long, I probably would have already gone insane and blown out my brains. literally

Only in America people are brainwashed by greedy bankers in wallstreet to think this way. What innovation does India, Korea, China, Taiwan, Singapore have? none, but they are prosperous because they are not stupid to believe that innovation is... — read more 

It's not clear from the package, is it 14 days or 30 days from receipt of package? Also if u decide to go with the default cobra package( 6 months and $9000) do u still need to call cobra? Or is it by default from jun1st?

Tell them to look around the company, look at the miserable look on people's faces. Drag them into a meeting or status review. And you get bonus points if you bring them along to the HR meeting you have if you get laid off, or "the talk" with your... — read more 

Is there a way to report a manager for creating a toxic work environment without them knowing that you reported them? Our org has a voluntary attrition rate that's three times the norm.

and cost $50 in parts... Aside from now learning how to change the capacitor on my unit so I don't need to hire him anymore......The more important lesson I learned? Why the hell did I become an engineer again, hoping for that 2-4% pay increase every... — read more 

I want my son to spend as much time with their son so that my son can learn that it's much better to be a doctor, and hopefully never follow in my footsteps. Considering my friend's house is this gnormous McMansion, that's a good start....

I told him, he was wasting his time, because it's not a good idea to make a career out of it. He turns to me and says, "aren't you an engineer"? I said yes, and If I only counted on that to pay for this house, this car, your extracurricular activity... — read more 

Focal was done before layoffs were announced. I wonder if FLMs and SLMs were instructed by HR to give dripping raises.

My dad was an Aerospace Engineer for 25 years. He worked for Hughes Aircraft, TRW, Northrop, Lockeed, Martin Marietta....He tells me that he was very unlucky. Unlike his peers, he was never laid off. His friends and peers were all laid off very early... — read more 

Granted, that the 8 cylinder Bi-Turbo engine takes 8 quarts of synthetic at $8/quart, and an oil filter is like $10. That's $136 for 1/2 hour of labor. How much do W2 slave engineers make per hour again????? And you want to listen to CEO's telling... — read more 

Simple supply and demand. Why on earth would you want your kids to compete in this cesspool moving forward? Med School, Law School, Business School.. But Engineering School??? No fking way. CEOs are happy with the cheap well educated labor moving... — read more 

Engineer = slavery Earning potential = suck doggy butt

If the CEOs were allowed to do that.

Doctor pay has been steadily increasing, especially with more patients seeing doctor under the ACA. Minimum wage workers get almost a 40% pay increase when minimum wage ends up being $15/hour. Public sector employees get a guaranteed pension with an... — read more 

A doctor's starting pay (family practice) is $175,000, with maybe a $100,000 sign on bonus. More, if you practice in a remote area where no one wants to work.... A PHD engineer will be lucky to start making $175,000 10 years later. Both spend about... — read more 

spent the same amount of time in school to become a doctor.

Fortunately, the alarm company didn't charge me anything to do the upgrade. But, they subcontracted the work out to a technician...1/2 hour job.... $150..... Why do people go to college for 4-6 to get an engineering degree, only to be outsourced by... — read more