I had to climb down Intel's management pecking tree for a technical issue, and it was eye opening. I passed through 6 layers of management to reach 1 engineer.

Worst part of that was the management sucked up to me when an SVP was copied on the email, and low-key ignored me when she wasn't.

This political cesspool cannot compete effectively against driven companies like NVidia. Intel seems to be the new Blackberry.