[general_re]

But then again, you'd have to be working for Intel, one of the least-liked companies in the Silicon Valley - very compartmentalized, very secretive, and very stifling for good designers.

That must be why all those Alpha guys jumped to Intel last year - because it sucks so much to work there. Or is it because they're not good designers? ;)

[Abcdefg]

The Alpha wasn't a good design?

[Yossarian]

I'd have to guess that they gave the Alpha guys good incentive (read $) to go over as a whole team. That, and once you are in a good team, you know what others are good at AND YOU KNOW YOUR TOOLS & TECH WELL, you don't feel like leaving it.

I just see people very happy to leave Intel. Of course, I've seen people eager to leave NVidia as well (it's a notorious meat-grinder), but at least they say they respect their management, even as they are working them to death....