Why hire me for one thing and then throw me on something totally unrelated? It’s frustrating and exhausting. Instead of building the skills I need for my career, I’m stuck spinning my wheels on a project that doesn’t even help me grow. This whole situation is wearing me down.
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The OP sounds like a kindergarten teacher that was moved to teach first grade and is crying about it. Just quit if all of this is too much for you to handle. Get a job as a toll booth worker - that will bring some consistency to your life.
Intel do not value engineers. The managers think they are privileged than others.
Intel cheap sh it will hire you as lower grade pay then assigning higher grade layoff work for you as a rotation.
Work the 70+ hours a week and learn the new area ... or go find a new job in something your good in. The worse thing to do is cruise the web and complain. Just trying to keep this real.
Yes, dig in and fight when the company tries to assign you to an area that needs help.
You should not stand for it. You have rights.
On the other hand, you are being selfish and short sighted.
Your work with the company is 'at will'. This means if you don't like it you can leave.
The company is struggling and doing whatever they can to be sure they don't have to lay you off and instead you complain the job fit isn't perfect.
This is why American companies are falling behind. There used to be a work ethic, you work for the company not the other way around.
This is nothing unusual, more-so after a huge RIF. They put you in a position where they probably lost more than they were expecting
Please prepare for interviews and leave.
Why have poor leadership.
Look at me, director level for xeon and no technical background.
Intel puts people like me in decisions making position when I should be admin😛
OP: why not ask your manager if you actually work for Intel? Intel is not a person to do that.
"butts-in-seats" guy is totally correct. I started in MIC, then HFI, then federal, the gfx.. that was the last call. Found a better job and never looked back except this site. lol
This is one major reason that you should leave. Following the order of the clueless leaders put the end to your career early.
I am in the same boat right now. They did it to me as well
I totally fell into this. They have large issue with losing people. Throughout my time I covered and took over positions and never got to become an expert.
This is the Intel Way. From the perspective of mgmt, engineers are interchangeable. The literally term used at Intel is "butts-in-seat." Intel doesn't care about domain expertise, specialization, etc., if you're an software engineer then you're a software engineer. If you're a hw engineer then you're a hw engineer.
Examples of this: we bought a networking company, and oops we're shutting down the BU, so all the "butts-in-seats" engineers can go work on graphics. Sure, they can learn, smart people can grow their skills, but in the meantime, you're burning daylight while the competitions are running away with actual graphics experts, not networking experts ramping up to graphics.
Best example: we let the person in charge of HR become the leader of DCAI, then in charge of the FPGA spin-off. Cuz an exec is an exec right? Domain expertise doesn't matter at all.
Rings a bell. For many years at Intel my direction swerved like crazy: wearables, autonomous driving, user experience etc etc. The problem is on the product side there are way too many employees than meaningful jobs. Therefore, most managers play games to keep their headcounts high as that is an indication of influence and impact for them. However, employees at the bottom of this food chain suffer as a result. Suc mismanagement lef Intel into this mess!
I spent my whole career derailed like that. Hired for one thing, switched to another on first product.
Sorry to hear that, but such thing no only Intel related, all depends on business needs