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TALK & TECH, A RARE COMBINATION
“My team is very technically skilled, but at the same time, they are all business savvy and can effectively communicate with customers. That’s a pretty rare combination.” Alexey Myakov was the co-founder and CEO of Itseez, a computer vision company in Russia. In 2016, Intel purchased the company and brought Alexey on board as part of Intel Russia. His journey...
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Freelance Nation Brings More Flexible Work Options to Intel
Freelance What? “The idea behind Freelance Nation had been bubbling up in the Talent Organization for a while,” says Kalani Ching, who helped launch the program in 2014. The innovative staffing solution was Intel’s response to the growing desire—from both employees and business groups—for more adaptable work arrangements. “A lot of employees wanted to focus more on the work they...
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Managing with Care: How to Make Your Career Work with Family Challenges
Note from the editor: One of my first posts on this blog 4 years ago (!!) was about flexibility and how much I appreciated the flexibility that Intel offered to me. Then I read this post from Jennifer and realized how flexibility isn't just a benefit or nice-to-have for some people, but it's necessary for them to manage their lives...
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Pay, Stock and Benefits: Freed by Flexibility
I mentioned in my last post that I moved to Austin. I have had a few questions about it. I figured that I could use that story to explain another example of Intel’s flexibility. I’ve talked about flexibility in the past (here on mobility and here about family) and it’s important to start with an explanation. There are many different...
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Pay, Stock & Benefits: Flexibility
“You don’t know what you don’t know.” I’ve always liked that saying. I suppose I like it because it reminds me of how little I DO know. The past couple weeks, however, have been a case study of knowing something I didn’t know and being pretty glad about something I already did know. Let me explain. I learned four weeks...
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