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If this is what they mean by shakeup then it’s just the regular stuff in recent Intel past.

When I was at Intel in 2 years I saw at least 6 reorgs and had 4 managers. You can imagine my career growth or the lack of it. Unfortunately it needs a real deep clean of non technical power pint happy management and clueless engineers.

And the politicking is so deeply entrenched in culture now that the new CEO himself might be a victim of it if he is under false illusion that restoring Intel to past glory is just about turning a few knobs.

Thankfully I left for a FAANG before it was too late with a wonderful hike, better colleagues and working conditions. The most irsksome thing for Intel to attract back those who have left is almost no one of those I know and in touch with who have left wants to be back and it’s not the money but the poor experience of working there.

If anyone can give Amazon a run for its money in treating its employees badly, my bet is on Intel.

> If anyone can give Amazon a run for its money in treating its employees badly, my bet is on Intel.

For sure this, but for me it is the money. In the last year I was promoted and gained 11% at Intel. I left for a startup, and gained 40% more.

I'm pending an offer from a FAANG now and I anticipate that within a year I will have 2.5x my previous total comp at Intel.

Further, Intel markets to its own employees in an extremely disgusting manner. Great Place to Work, Overpriced food branded as healthy, Programs for meditation and whatnot, which all sound nice, but mean next to nothing.

Just provide some decent comp and remove non-technical managers from managing technical people and processes. Pitching a project was always a nightmare of whether the non-technical manager would get the idea (or understand the possibilities) or not.

> When I was at Intel in 2 years I saw at least 6 reorgs and had 4 managers. You can imagine my career growth or the lack of it. Unfortunately it needs a real deep clean of non technical power pint happy management and clueless engineers.

My experience at Intel as well. Just about 4 years and had 7 managers through 6ish reorgs. Oddly enough, they never changed the director level management. They did an other reorg the week after I left.

I think Intel's problem is a senior leadership problem more than anything. They keep shuffling the pieces around just to get the same results.

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