Intel can't move forward by continuing to have managers that don't deserve to be managers. Managers that don't listen. Managers that don't understand. Managers that make their own employees that start to be seen as the next generation of leaders look bad. Intel has created a culture of backstabbing and lying to destroy reputations to save their own jobs. They need to clean house starting with directors and below. Maybe higher if the poison goes higher. The company will rise to be almighty again if you remove the problems and road blocks. This company was built by good employees that had stability and a sense of ownership. None of that exists today. The poison for bringing in employees from outside is through the roof and there is very little chance for them to succeed. Poison under the Information Security team is unbelievable. The infosec managers are angry, they try to make other managers and other employees fail, so they can be seen as successful themselves. Employees fear retribution and punishment so they never tell the truth on the surveys because the survey data is shared and not anonymous like it should be. The CISO was asked if he would do something about bad managers that don't deserve to be managers and he said the survey doesn't match the statement. The survey asks about senior leaders and their own manager, but it should ask about that and other teams managers that directly affect their job. It should ask about partners, the whole one team, it should ask if that great saying is actually put to use because it's not. Anyone that answers a question in person like that where that employee in the open forum put their neck on the line by stepping up for all of us, anyone that answered a concerned question like that with basically a "you lie" and buries their head in the sand is not a true leader!!! Poison starts at the top of the security org, down to the directors and managers. The employees all pretend life is great for fear of retribution. I hope other departments or orgs don't have the same problems. Clean out the managers and above and fix the culture. Send out a real anonymous survey to everyone instead of a controlled sampling to skew the results. Do a video that promises to use the info to fix the org and that the results are truly anonymous, make a believable and true commitment for the results to be confidential and not shared with the management.
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They want to bean count their way to success. So sad.
I didn't know the surveys were not anonymous, (The smirk on one of the managers in a AHM while asked about anonymity is suddenly clear) I remember giving a blunt survey feedback of the situation there an year ago, with my employee id as the signature. One should not worry about the retaliation, You can not live in fear and enjoy doing your work at the same time. Retaliation simply suggests your manager's tolerance to the true facts. I am better off without Intel, Enjoying the work, building myself up instead of s---ing up to the insensitive/non-sense decisions my management chain took.
Intel doesn't train managers, but promotes managrts based on performance as an individual contributor or to fill a diversity checked box. Of the 8 managers I have had, only two had the skills to lead a team, and the last one was a diversity checked box... True leaders don't have to be the smartest person in the room. Seems Intel and those promoted to leadership feel the leaders should be the smartest people in the room. When that doesn't happen, you get micromanagement and leaders tearing down their teams to make themselves look good.
@sed - They are absolutely NOT anonymous! HR truly employs gestapo/ stazi tactics. Never, never, never trust them. They are not your friend. Not answering is the best policy, but even that will get you flagged.
This person is HR by the way - @OnFxQgM-ooh
Just do your job, look for another one, and don't be the nail that is too high or too low.
I don't even answer these surveys as i feel it is extremely doubtful that they are anonymous
I'm just dying to see what happens.
Exactly! I Left last year, but I felt the pain of the change in Intel that caused me to want to leave. Another thing is when you walk the halls and see what hiring people to check the diversity check boxes or the "this is not a white male" check boxes for the sake of checking those boxes instead of hiring any skilled people based on their skill is bringing down the skill level and making the skilled people more burdened with work the other employees can't do. Stop the bleeding of talent! Treat people better. Make better hiring decisions. Otherwise the poison will continue and spread like cancer until other companies take Intel over in all of our lines of business!
Exactly! I Left last year, but I felt the pain of the change in Intel that caused me to want to leave. Another thing is when you walk the halls and see what hiring people to check the diversity check boxes or the "this is not a white male" check boxes for the sake of checking those boxes instead of hiring any skilled people based on their skill is bringing down the skill level and making the skilled people more burdened with work the other employees can't do. Stop the bleeding of talent! Treat people better. Make better hiring decisions. Otherwise the poison will continue and spread like cancer until other companies take Intel over in all of our lines of business!