Linear Technology Corporation (LTC, home of the analog gurus) was like this too, except they rewarded engineers with appropriate salaries, options and amazing profit sharing. They allowed engineers to take the design from beginning to manufacturing release. Under those circumstances great design engineers had massive pride and job satisfaction, and magnificent products were created. Of course there were negatives there like any company, but for technical people who love the life, LTC was awesome. Certainly worthy of an Asianometry video! RIP LTC (bought out by ADI).
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As an engineer, I'd only agree to this if I knew by contact I would be rewarded proportional to the value I bring. If you want me to be that serious about work, you have to be that serious about pay and benefits.
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This explains so very much about the legendarily toxic work environment and poor management practices at Intel.
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That mentality is outdated when companies treat you like you're disposable and pay you like shit.
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My work experience is that people having fun are twice as productive as ones that dread coming to work every day.
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Work is where most people spend most of their waking hours and also where they make friends and meet romantic partners, and so is a substantial part of their life. If you remove relaxation, socialisation & play from people‘s work environments, you remove those things from their lives, and so make life much less worth living. This corporate hustler‘s ‚no-nonsense’ mindset is incredibly toxic and makes life much much worse for millions of people in the US. It‘s completely backwards if you think about it for just one moment.
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That type of attitude is only seen with people who own equity in the company. Everybody else isn't too interested in spending 8 hours of their lives making somebody else rich. If I have to work, I'm going to try to enjoy it.
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I’ve worked places like that. Now, I work somewhere where the pay is better and it’s actually fun being at work. When companies only want drones, that’s what they get, which shows after some time…
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All work & no play is a perfect way to promote burnout and turnover. It is best to promote a balance between the two. I've worked for employers at both ends of the spectrum. The ones that are all work all the time always have massive issues with turnover and brain drain.
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And now they are cancelling the last bits of "fun" that company has to offer.
7 months ago | 80
First things first, make sure to hold the rail when going up and down those stairs
7 months ago | 2
I've only met one person who worked at intel, and he was so mentally damaged from his time there that he was basicly useless. When i put an X in a checkbox rather than a slash he stopped all work and called the building cheif to ask if that was acceptable or if he had to go to the office and print out an entierly new MOP. A US prison is a more healthy and fostering environment than intel lol
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I used to be part of management for a company that had this mentality, low pay ( I always pushed for higher pay for workers) guess what they fired me for " bringing animosity within the team " for disagreements on pay, favoritisthon employees they wanted, and they even lied about company policies. Honestly I was glad I was out of there, and they wondered why on year on year their profits were lowering, they failed to adapt to their surroundings and innovate, they even betrayed their customers.
7 months ago | 0
My dissapointment in intel in its processors started from 2015-2017 when all they did was the fic tac, and actually lost their grounds to amd. It didnt have to end like this. They had the upperghand even when zen1 was released
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Asianometry
Former Intel CEO Craig Barrett in his oral history talking about Andy Grove's attitude to work: “You come to work to work. You don’t come to work to have a good time, or play, or anything of that sort.”
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