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.
I’ll take it, hard to find any work now… ;-)
How could Intel possibly benefit from that?
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.