Seeing comments on multiple threads from Intel employees essentially saying diverse employees are the reason Intel is failing is incredibly terrible. I’m so disappointed in this company. I was excited for Pat’s return, and so disappointed when he left almost ten years ago when I first started at Intel, but if anything is going to drag down the company now, it’s the plethora of racist employees who would rather make racist comments on an anon employee website than do their job and work with teammates who don’t look like them. Sad. Just sad. Your enemy isn’t the black or Hispanic coworker on your team, it’s your unwillingness to see them as your peer who deserves to be here just as much as you.
I was honestly disgusted by the comments in that thread, it’s unbelievable... really need to gtfo.
Ex intel here. What happened?
Look at any of the posts about diversity at Intel, most of the comments say that Intel is drowning because “all diverse employees are incompetent”. Multiple employees used that phrase word for word
I think that thread is only visible to Intel only... but I know which one you are talking about.
Racism was, is and will be, you can’t do anything with this. People think that diversity can bring changes - they’re completely wrong since this is not going to work (people think same things though they don’t express them in public). I came across this a few times in the past so I’d recommend to get used to this no matter what.
Sadly, you’re right. I just believed that some of the best talent in the world would be more concerned with doing their job than childish, bigoted feuds with their Black and Hispanic coworkers simply because of the color of their skin. Ridiculous, but realistic
Diversity works when people are mature and competent
One reason for that is diverse people get promotions and paid more during focals compared to non diverse group with similar impact. I was told by a VP to increase rating from successful to exceeds for a diverse candidate and drop rating from SL2 to SL3 for a non diverse.
But the issue is: how do you know that your “diverse” peers aren’t having a greater impact than you? How do you know that their output isn’t stronger? That their communication isn’t more superb? That their ideas aren’t better? I believe a lot of us assume that just because someone diverse got a better review that it’s because of their skin tone when in reality, perhaps you need to step up your game.
As a manager I set the level of ratings. If they performed better, i would have certainly given exceeds myself. I was showing equality and keeping ratings performance driven. But was arm twisted to change it.
People are racist and will continue to be when they can't mingle or think outside of their bubble. There needs to be more promotion of diversity and the benefits of diversity rather than allowing people to remain in their bubbles.
It's funny I once heard a senior member of leadership at Citi saying that they are simply firing white guys in markets because they're white... I found the message particularly tone deaf and told him that maybe they're firing white guys because all of them are white to begin with. He didn't speak to me after that.
That moment when you realize that there are no non-white employees to fire to begin with... lmao, but we all know who would go first if they had the choice.
I always felt that lack of diversity brought intel down . Way too much nepotism going on. The only problem is yeah some promotions etc were very ura centric which shouldn't have been the case, nor does the 🥜 help
Do Indians and Asians count as "diverse" employees at Intel?
I would still consider them diverse if they coexist together else they are not.
I was trying to understand the viewpoint at Intel. Were the employees complaining about diversity also include Asians and Indians in that category?
Most of the employees at Intel are white, Asian, and Indian (@Asian and Indian people on this chat please do correct me if it’s more appropriate to use different titles, I.e. grouping everyone under the “Asian” group, or specifying regions etc.) Black and Hispanic employees are a serious minority in Intel
I thought the vast majority in engineering were Indians? Is this not the case
This post is in reference to the overall major demographics at Intel specifically
Unfortunately that racist perspective is common for white and even Asian people. They try and blame the one black person in the company rather than owning that they themselves aren't that competent.
This is sometimes the case. But if Intel is anything like Microsoft this is the case maybe 5%. We promote first based on diversity and then everything else. It also depends on the org though. Your experience is crafting your response to this. Trust me, I've seen both. Orgs where non-diverse people who perform better are getting thrown under the bus. Orgs where nepotism runs. Orgs where people are being treated fairly.