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Intel does not value software. This is well known, especially by SW people who worked at Intel and had to learn the lesson the hard way.
by foobiekr 4y ago
Intel does not value software. This is well known, especially by SW people who worked at Intel and had to learn the lesson the hard way.
- PaulHoule 4y agoI had a business partner who was impressed with Intel in a way that I just couldn't understand. In my own area of software expertise Intel was hiring freshers to make half-baked projects that were even more half baked than my own half baked projects and I could never get him to understand how it was a software person would find it almost impossible to be taken seriously in a company that thinks its main competence is hardware. (That said, NVIDIA is a bit of a counterexample. As much as people complain about their drivers a lot of the brilliance in their product is in the CUDA compiler. I wound up having to fight with NVIDIA's drivers to make a family of machine language learning products deployable and came to have a lot of appreciation for the release engineering work that goes into their drivers even if, in the end, the drivers seem to be just another way to build a mailing list of people to spamannoy)
- th-miracle-257 4y agoDo they value any employee at all? As per the latest grapevine, they have stopped giving RSU refreshers as well; I guess that may be a smart decision if they know all the smart horses have left the stable.
- foobiekr 4y agoIntel basically just gave the whole company a substantial raise back in November, so I don't know. The RSU thing is news to me.
- bcrl 4y agoJust look at their track record on the BIOS for server boards. A company I worked with ran into the exact same PCIe probing bug in the BIOS on every new generation of Intel server motherboard + CPU. And it always took 6 months for the BIOS guys to get around to reimplementing the same fix because the next gen CPUs fork off before the production fixes are complete.