A friend at grad school was asking me for advice -- he had an "in" at Intel -- make $250k and do nothing. A friend had promised a basically no-show position for him. My friend was debating between this $250k/yr no-show position at Intel (no growth) vs something elsewhere which was more demanding but would provide more growth.

This isnt the only no-show position I've heard about at Intel. That is why Intel cannot catch up. You probably cannot get away with that at Apple.

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mixmastamyk 6 days ago | parent | next [-]

I’ll take it, hard to find any work now… ;-)

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jmkni 6 days ago | parent | prev [-]

How could Intel possibly benefit from that?

	▲	woah 6 days ago \| parent [-]
		Could be some manager who needs to show a certain headcount to maintain their status, but involving more people in the actual work would just be too many cooks in the kitchen. The friend probably had a degree that looked sufficiently good on paper to make the manager look good.