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So cut headcount and pray that things will get better! Inspiring vision! It will definitely work !

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It wouldn't be the first time an Intel CEO resorted to prayer[1] as their business implodes.

1: https://www.threads.com/@masiosare/post/C-SoS6qJbU6?hl=en

lol I forgot about this one, Intel have a very big collection of weirdo execs I guess.

"Well actually..."

That wasn't a prayer. It was a quote from Proverbs, a collection of pithy sayings and life advice. Other quotes from it include "above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it" and "pride goes before destruction, a haughty spirit before a fall". It's literally a book of, well, proverbs. Many are religious, but plenty of others are general life advice.

You're missing the point. Sure, they're going to just keep doing what they've always done, but this time they're going to do it HARDER and with 15% fewer people!

So just like the plan they executed in 2023 and 2024! It must start working at some point right?

Admittedly, just because something hasn’t bourn fruit doesn’t necessarily mean it’s a bad plan. All they need is a major stumble by TSMC or AMD or some tailwinds themselves and they could start looking much better.

"Our plan is perfect, it's the world that's messed up!"

It worked for Twitter, very well from an IT point of view.

It works great for Twitter. Every other month there is a strategy failure to get some media attention.

I still remember the doom preached at the crossroads. Guess what happened over the next years.

They didn't go down, but the lack of staff is starting to show in some areas. For example, clicking on certain links in their developer docs leads nowhere. There are also API issues, such as disappearing likes. Everything has its consequences.

Did Twitter get any better?

It wasn't a total collapse like some were expecting, they haven't really done much new however. Cutting some of the fat was a good idea but they might have gone a little too lean in places.

Twitter fired all the advertising account managers, and no longer makes money because it essentially no longer has ads.

It definitely has ads every four tweets and in the comments.

Those mostly aren't ads, those are promoted tweets by literal crazy people or crypto scams. They aren't paying millions for them.

Twitter doesn’t make a profit. It’s propped up by a billionaire so he can have social clout.

Genuine question: what makes you think Twitter is profitable? As far as I can tell, the numbers are a secret.

I mean hiring a lot over years did not make things any better so why not try the reverse.

The beatings will continue until morale improves. Layoffs and Return to Office!

Imagine doing what all your competitors are doing while being one of the least desirable big tech companies to work for.

What could possibly go wrong? /s

> Imagine doing what all your competitors are doing while being one of the least desirable big tech companies to work for.

Good thing you have very few of them because your industry is way too capital intensive to start a competitor now.

I am generally curious what capitalisms proposed solution to this problem is.

Offshore. There's your solution bud

Of course, not sure why I didn’t see what’s plainly in front of me

Every large tech company is a competitor for Intel's talent.

How much talent is really there today?

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