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"Calling me a moron is one thing, but accusing me of having an MBA is really too much." -pg, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10670
Damn, that whole comment section is an amazing time capsule of sentiment regarding Microsoft and other tech companies! Well worth a read.
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Oh man, this. I remember I worked at a major defence contractor, and we absolutely bombed, like failed through the floor an employee satisfaction survey. And when the VP finally sat down with people they expressed how shitty the computers had gotten. And he's like wait a second. No one ever told me this. I can solve 90% of my morale problems by writing a cheque for like $200k?!? It was astounding how large the discon…
> how large the disconnect had grown between management and the front line That's just the nature of leadership positions. As people get high up in the position, the view of the company is shaped by their staff and reports. The VP never hear of the problem simply because no one ever told the VP. VP never asked about it because again no one ever told the VP. That's why corporates seem to ask a million surveys and repo…
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I'm kind of questioning whether it even makes sense for Intel to try to compete with Nvidia and AMD when it comes to GPUs or deep learning accelerators. They just need to really win in one area in a sense, or at least to have a product with a really compelling price/performance ratio. Though you could argue there's a certain synergy between laptops, desktops and servers (people will generally favor running the same a…
I think Intel SIMD (AVX-512) is still best-of-class for vector math. Run Length Encoded algorithms in column stores like SAP HANA are currently the key use-case (revenue/market wise). What I've learned since the release of Apple M1 is that ISA extensions for Matrix math, as incorporated in Apple's AMX, complement the Vector-centric SIMD ISA and are probably a key battle front for ML/DL. A good Vector/Matrix SIMD-like…
While all this is a good news, microarchitecture is not the bottleneck for Intel. At least now there are guys in charge who are only one level away from the real problem and used to talking to them.
Intel failed in foundry business.
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Intel FY 2020 results just came out
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That's what I make at my full time job in NJ with 7 years of experience. Damn.
You have to ask yourself if the raise is worth the COLA as well as quality of life in the Bay Area which include housing stock quality per dollar as well as nuisance crimes you have to deal with (garage, car break ins and dealing people suffering metal health issues in the street, etc.) It works out for some people but it will not work out for everyone.
And, honestly, I think that after the pandemic companies are going to have a lot of trouble trying to pull employees back into in-office full time work.
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Err. shouldn't the real competitors be viewed as ARM and M1?
ARM: maybe. Intel would be smart to make an ARM CPU. M1: probably not. Apple never really knew how to sell servers, and having a premium brand means they can't sell low-end laptops, so the market for something between a Chromebook, iPad mini, and low-end Macbook Air will still be x86 (maybe Intel, maybe AMD, whichever's cheapest) until ARM Windows is a thing. ARM in the datacenter should be Intel's main fear.
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I left Intel years ago to get almost 3x the salary as a software developer at... a bank. At Intel engineers are paid supposedly similar rates at similar levels and similar locations. And given my level (two levels above Senior Developer) I estimate I was paid better than at least 90% engineers. Where I worked in R&D the doors were constantly revolving and many people admitted they wait to register enough of prestigio…
I've been approached by headhunters for contract work at Intel. They want all kinds of machine learning knowledge & experience and the pay is.... $45/hr. I kid you not. I just sort of laugh and tell them that that's about 1/3 of market rate for that kind of thing.
A bit off topic but I remember when Intel set up a special career fair presentation for my major. I forget the specific role the manager was hiring for, but it sounded like a quality/reliability engineer. Basically run a bunch of tests, identify and analyze errors on newly manufactured equipment. I immediately lost interest when the manager said the role would either work until 9 PM or start the next day at 4 AM due…
So I spoke to a recruiter and opened with: so what's the work life balance look like for technical ICs at your company? The recruiter literally laughed at me like I was doing stand-up comedy. Well, uh... ok? Waste of time, lol.
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His point is, when you go from being practically the only game in town in 2014, to being a joke-ass also-ran "competitor" being trounced by the underdog processor company[0] who damn near went bankrupt and had to sell their fab just to stay afloat; and when your two biggest allies 1) make their own System-on-a-Chip that fucking slaughters your best offerings in a ton of benchmarks and real world tests, and also does…
This feels like a distraction from what I was driving at. Whether it’s Intel, AMD, etc. any large company needs a lot of work to be done. You don’t need top engineers for that.
If you have good engineers the relationship between amount of work and number of engineers needed is non-linear.