Rant

Stock is up, but the culture is absolutely hollowed out

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·14d ago·2 comments

It’s genuinely bizarre seeing the share price hitting these levels while morale in the office is at an all-time low. I’ve been here for a decade, and the place doesn't even feel like the same company anymore. We’re being told to pivot to AI and push innovation, but how can we actually execute on that when half the institutional knowledge just got handed a box and a severance package? I see people talking about the stock recovery like it’s a victory, but it feels like we’re just cutting muscle to pay for a better-looking balance sheet for Wall Street. The pressure to RTO is just the icing on the cake. If they want us to be 'innovative,' maybe they should stop treating their core technical staff like a line item to be deleted whenever the quarterly outlook gets a bit dicey. Anyone else feeling like the 'new' Intel is just a shell of what it was supposed to be?

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·14d ago

The disconnect between the ticker symbol and the actual hallways is deafening. It is a classic move—liquidate the long-term talent, dress up the balance sheet with cost-cutting, and sell the dream of a 'pivot' to Wall Street. Investors are trading on the brand name and the idea of government subsidies, but they aren't looking at the exodus of the engineers who actually know how to build the chips. You can’t manufacture a culture or an innovation pipeline overnight once you have already gutted the people responsible for both.

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·14d ago

Stop looking at the stock charts if you want to know the future of this place. The share price is currently a reflection of aggressive layoffs and financial engineering rather than genuine product competitiveness. Every time I walk past an empty desk that used to be held by someone with twenty years of experience, I realize that the institutional brain drain is irreparable. It is effectively a shell company now, coasting on historical momentum while the actual engine of the business is being dismantled for parts.