Paul and Thread - ~OT: Found this post on YAHOO interesting. PB.
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Sorry, you dont understand how we work!
by: Technician_Inside_Intel (38/M/Portland, OR) 55468 of 55605
Stocksguru_1 said:
:KNOW only what Your BETTERS at Intel want you to KNOW.
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:Now go do your job as your supervisor tells you to do it and :STOP trying to think, leave that to your supervisors and other :staff.
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:INTEL is SCREWED BABY...
100% untrue. Internal to the company, we are kept appraised of the good, bad and ugly. We are told what is going well and what is not, what the problem areas are and where we are kicking bootie. All employees attend update meetings on a regular basis to keep us appraised as to our company performance, our individual business unit performance, and how it all ties together. An informed employee is much more likely to work hard, because they know the cost of failure to everybody. Because of this I feel I am surrounded by the most highly motivated workforce anywhere. I feel my contributions are recognized and performance rewarded. One of our corporate values is "A great place to work" and Intel has exceeded my wildest expectations.
I do not have a supervisor. I work as a member of a team. Our team has a charter and a set of common goals we work towards, with our goals being agreed upon by ourselves and management. In my area there are less than a half dozen managers with several hundred employees working for them. The managers do not manage in the traditional sense, their main concerns are how our operation is running and not the day to day lives of the employees. They help smooth operational issues, my daily activities are decided upon and agreed to by the members of the team. Some team members are a higher job grade than I am, some lower, none of that comes into play on our team. They are paid more or less due to experience, level of contribution, etc. As far as our interaction every single day in our team, we are equals. We elect our team members, changing roles and responsibilities several times a year. Being the "team leader" has NOTHING to do with your job grade. They provide coordination with different teams and groups.
Ill bet you think either I am full of garbage, or working here must be controlled chaos. Well, its niether. When your responsibilities and expectations to and from your team are understood, when you treat each other as equal and integral parts of a larger whole, you eliminate most of the petty bickering and backstabbing that seems so common in other jobs. If I have a problem with a member of my team, it is expected that I will confront that team member directly and in a constructive manner, that we will work out any differences between us. Involving managers in our problems is seen in most cases as a failure on the part of both people.
At other chip companies, a technician fixes broken semiconductor process tools. At intel, we run them, we fix them when they break, we teach classes, we design and run engineering experiments. Those closest to the equipement, the technicians, are treated as people with brains and ideas. Every one of us, including myself, has made improvements to our methods of chip making and the hardware used to make the chips. This is probably why Intel leads the _world_ in line yield and die yield.
There may be no utopia in the working world, but I think working at Intel is as close as it gets.
As always, my opinions are my own and not those of my employer.
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