The thing that gets me about Intel's culture, as someone who worked there, was that Intel as an organisation was completely unable to actually accept they'd done anything wrong. Ever.
There are lots of cases where Intel has either screwed up or done things that were unarguably anti-competitive. It happens at every company, I don't like Uber, but I'm not going to blame Uber today for the fuckery that Kalanick got up to.
In each case you could ask the Intel HR, or Intel senior management what they thought about it and it was never Intel's fault. The answers to any questions about this sort of stuff would be full of pettifogging, passsive voice, and legalese. The result was the internal culture was an extremely low trust environment since you knew people were willing to be transparantly intellectually dishonest to further their careers. I haven't been there since Gelsinger arrived but I hope that changes, I wonder how much it can change in the legal environment we're in.
There are lots of cases where Intel has either screwed up or done things that were unarguably anti-competitive. It happens at every company, I don't like Uber, but I'm not going to blame Uber today for the fuckery that Kalanick got up to.
In each case you could ask the Intel HR, or Intel senior management what they thought about it and it was never Intel's fault. The answers to any questions about this sort of stuff would be full of pettifogging, passsive voice, and legalese. The result was the internal culture was an extremely low trust environment since you knew people were willing to be transparantly intellectually dishonest to further their careers. I haven't been there since Gelsinger arrived but I hope that changes, I wonder how much it can change in the legal environment we're in.