Once again they managed to skip every single slacker I work with. Who the he-l do these people know to survive something like this?
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@b8 Nope, people are being cut based on internal politics, kingdom building, and nepotism. We're seeing it play out now. You can be a waste of an employee, but if you know the right VP you're safe. You can be doing great work, but if you don't have the right connections, they'll hand the work off to someone who does and drop you in a heartbeat.
If you were so smart, you would be the boss, but you are not. So, a reasonably smart person would look at this post as sour grapes from an underling.
Private equity race to the bottom
@am you and me both. We are eternally 54's so when it comes time to lay offs they don't mind keeping us around because we don't make anywhere near 6 figures.
They must go to Lip Bu's dinner parties
@a1 we had F-K struggle modules that were impacted more heavily than mature modules. Seems like they were just given a number of people to cut
Trick is staying “under” the radar, not on the radar…
People are cut based off their role and whether the company believes that role is needed. You can be an excellent employee, but if your on the wrong team at the wrong time, you can get cut. Entire teams were let go using this strategy. It's very unfortunate. Intel is basically working under the assumption that everyone is equal in performance so you only need to cut roles and teams you no longer need, without regard for the quality of the people.
You will know Intel leadership is serious when all of the top "leadership" in graphics is swept aside.
LP would be a start, followed by a 30%-50% reduction in resource - mostly in management hierarchy. Decision making is overly centralized and subpar products are delivered.
There are places in the company where the old culture of "whoever can yell the loudest wins" still prevails. That needs to be removed. Good ideas are snuffed out in that type of culture.
Last, get rid of "we always did it this way" mindset.
Next time spy and turn in those slackers who are bringing the whole team down. It's tool late now.
same in my module. under performing slackers safe while ppl who were productive were laid off
Because we're like roaches, we will survive a nuke
It's been know, they aren't gonna reduce staff from needed modules that were struggling to keep up.
This is why it's important to quiet quit and not take the work from those who were laid off.
Of course you would still be working with some id--ts, because that's not how layoffs works.