Every other person that I worked with at this company was a total freeloading douchebag - engineering, management, sales - you name it. God what I would give to see if certain names appeared on list of 12,000. I'm sure there's plenty of good people... — read more
Laid-off IT workers muzzled as H-1B debate heats up
http://www.computerworld.com/article/3027640/it-outsourcing/laid-off-it-workers-muzzled-as-h-1b-debate-heats-up.html
Moore-T's law
Moore's law: Increase the number of transistors per square inch by 2x every year. Moore-T's law: Layoff the number of employees at Intel by 12K every year.
Why not open VSP for everyone?
I have seen so many posts from people wanting vsp's. Also many people I meet from Intel show alot of interest in taking vsp's and are waiting for them. Intel can just open it to everyone and see who wants to take them rather than pushing someone to... — read more
What all ethnicities posts here?
I know it's not just rajev Gupta and John Doe.
Anybody got unwanted meeting invite in Santa-Clara? I am little worried. BK sucks
Am I the first one to get out or it is just one normal meeting invite? Please share if anybody Santa-Clara got any unusual meeting invite from Director
6 month insurance runs out in November... then what?
If I understand it right, the 6 months of insurance runs out in November. But the qualifying life even happens may 31st (when you officially get laid off). That means you can't switch your insurance at that point. And you are legally required to have... — read more
Fire BK!!!
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/intel-finally-admitted-failed-miserably-200224965.html
No more employment? No problem! But how about some human dignity that every one deserves.
If you don't believe any anonymous complaint about how Intel treated the laid-off employees, read this story. I can understand Intel could lay off people in some changing new ways depending on its business and management condition, but I can not... — read more
Rest Easy! BK and Diane Bryant got fat raises while 12,000 people are losing their jobs.
One person posted on the internal website: "It overjoys me to see that both BK and Diane are just now getting rewarded for their years of hard work. It's a wonderful thing when the company makes an effort to recognize the 0.1% of its employees whose... — read more
when do we need to sign up for COBRA?
got ISP. do we signup right away or on June 1st? Still waiting for paperwork to arrive in mail. Did anyone receive it? During my walkout, HR did not have answers to any of my questions. Just handed me paperwork and said go home and read. What are the... — read more
Anyone intending to appeal?
I just submitted an appeal. Is anyone else planning on appealing, or have appealed?
Intel Security / McAfee ??
What is the impact to Intel Security and related sites (Hillsboro, Ayl, Plano)? Is security still the '4th pillar' in Intel's strategy? it is not looking that way ...:(
Where can I find $200k+ management position in Oregon
I am manager at Intel and need to start planning my scape plan. Below are skills I excel at (most of those learned at Intel): Political Squeeze every once out engineers Make management happy (yes man) Throwing people under the bus Socializing, spend... — read more
INTEL should and must buy MediaTek
This company? https://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=2454.TW+Key+Statistics Actually, Mediatek as such has $167 Billion USD "cash in hands" (20% more of whole INTEL value, and 8.5x of INTEL's cash). In Y2014 MediaTek shipped more that Billion SoCs... — read more
Vicious Cycle
The last time Intel restructured like this was in 2006 when they gave up the smart phone market. http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1162184 This is your virtuous cycle. http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1161031
Did anyone get VSP offer in SINGAPORE?
Did anyone get VSP offer in SINGAPORE?
Murthy's Plan
I heard that he's gonna use all the office space left bc of laid off people to start a giant curry factory. Which then will be used as propaganda to hire Indian contractors from Infosys.
after killing SOFIA and LTE dev, what about the old IMC division ? (Sophia antipolis, munich... )
Site closure or big layoff ?
AB sold 185,470 INTC shares this week before quiet period ends, and so it begins...
Intel Corp. (NASDAQ: INTC) had the chairman of the semiconductor giant selling stock this past week. Andy Bryant shed a total of 185,470 shares of the stock at prices that ranged from $31.93 to $32.05. The total for the sale came in at $6 million... — read more
Any news as dawn breaks in PG/KM/CD?
Wondering what is going on? Several emails from key partners voicing concern last week.
GameofThrones at intel
GameofThrones at intel here's what I heard from an level 10 mgr in HR...for ANY grade level, if you are past mid-point or median for that level and in previous 5 years, had NO promotion or NO exceeds, (so 5 satisfactories) then focal tool will... — read more
Folsom site Closure - Almost certain now .
Intel clearly told that No further site expansion Laying off people on slow path. Intel would like to consolidate CA to only one site - Bay Area SC Few Manager might already got notification for justifying next 5 year for their group to be in FM... — read more
Anybody knows the ISP COBRA package is just Intel cutting you a check, or Intel is paying COBRA directly ?
If the former that means one could pocket part of it by not choosing some coverage (e.g. vision, dental) that one can live without.
Intel is really painting a rosy picture to those thinking about working at Intel in their "Life at Intel" section
Intel should include the thelayoff link to provide future candidates unbiased views on Intel work culture and ethics in http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/jobs/life-at-intel.html
An unbiased look at the problem.
http://spectrum.ieee.org/at-work/education/the-stem-crisis-is-a-myth