Intel

Sabbatical: After working for 4 years, 4 weeks. After 7 years, 8 weeks.

Pay and benefits: Industry standard.

Bonuses: Two parts (quarterly and yearly), which usually make up 8% of your base salary.

Work/Life balance: Okay.

They are pushing the forced diversity and inclusion narrative too much and too focused on being social justice warriors. Since BK was CEO, we have been having delays in our technology, and now with Bob Swan, we are going to have another delay of 7nm. This delay is not by days or months; it will most likely be years if history repeats itself.

Instead of doing stock buybacks, focus on retaining talented employees and fixing the process and product. AMD and NVIDIA have a plan, and they've been executing flawlessly and on time.

Quotas for hiring URMs are not good for the company. People will focus on hiring based on external factors, not on what they are qualified to do. This leads to more money on hiring bonuses based on whether someone is a URM or not.

I would say disband the board and get folks who know the semiconductor business. Too many finance and medical folks are on there.