Working in companies like Intel and AMD, you need brains and politics.
The politics is way too heavy.
If you dont perform, you are out.
If you perform very well and become a threat to your immediate superior, you will be played out.
If you perform so well and the superior of your superior (say regional in charge) likes you and weed him out, you will thrive at first and soon be a threat to him and he will still play you out.
My dad was already very high up in Intel, the whole intel International only got 4 in charge of this department (cannot name) - that time these 4 are in Portland, Oregon - Santa Clara, California - Shanghai - and Penang
2014 or 2015 USA economy was bad, retrench all high rankers.
Dad got played out by his superior, his superior after one year got played out by his own superior who directly ans to the CEO.
That moment forced him to move to KL.
That was a cold blooded moment bec dad served 20+ years in Intel. VSS and out you go. and before that, they ask my dad perform training for all the freshies like all these new /ktard strawberries. 1 to train batches of 200, cut the 1, and replace with the 200 low salary people.
No doubt,
Job salary is good
Annual increment and bonus and u get some shares
Get to fly internationally for meetings and cuti cuti with family at same time
Got allowances
But dont expect it to last very long, my friends who worked in Intel got shown the door quite fast, usually within 5 years.
20months VSS not bad weh. Why didn't jump to broadcom and continue the money printing?
My friend got 15 months VSS in 2015, joined another company in Penang and has been promoted 3 times since then, now director level already.