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| ▲ | trenchpilgrim 7 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| On her website it says she is working on GPU drivers there - I wouldn't be surprised if that's something she greatly enjoys and Intel gave her then opportunity to work on official, production shipping drivers instead of reverse engineered third party drivers. |
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| ▲ | neilv 11 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| If I were Intel, this sounds like a great person to give an R&D skunkworks dream job. Potential lottery ticket win, they are available for consulting internally anywhere that can add value, and they're not working for anyone else. |
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| ▲ | whizzter 11 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Maybe she was given a huge signing bonus to avoid her working on making X86 irrelevant? Combined with perhaps some interesting project to work on for real. |
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| ▲ | forgotoldacc 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I imagine there's also some challenging work that would be fun to dig into. Being the person who can clean up Intel's problems would be quite a reputation to have. |
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| ▲ | ikety 12 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I'm sure most would stay at valve if they could. The just do so much contract work, and I'm sure a stable job at intel is better pay, benefits and stability. |
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| ▲ | bigyabai 12 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Would it shock you to hear that many/most engineers don't pick an employer based on brand reputation? |
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| ▲ | collingreen 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | Would it shock you to hear that famous engineers with their own personal brand power have different opportunities and motivations than many/most engineers? | | |
| ▲ | vasco an hour ago | parent [-] | | Their point is even made stronger by your comment. Engineers of this type don't experience megacorps like regular engineers. They usually have a non-standard setup and more leeway and less bureaucracy overhead. Which means brand isn't the biggest thing, the specific projects and end user impact are. |
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| ▲ | KerrAvon 12 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| usually a combination of money/benefits/locale is the answer to this question |
