Leaving Intel
by speckx on 12/5/2025, 9:27:04 PM
https://www.brendangregg.com/blog//2025-12-05/leaving-intel.html
Comments
by: gyomu
> "I also supported cloud computing, participating in 110 customer meetings, and created a company-wide strategy to win back the cloud with 33 specific recommendations, in collaboration with others across 6 organizations."<p>Man people keep count of this stuff?! Maybe I should too, it does make flexing easier.
12/6/2025, 1:47:51 AM
by: fn-mote
A "goodbye" post after only 3.5 years. Hard to relate.<p>In my world it's hard to imagine an impact after that short of a time. And in fact, reading the list of accomplishments ("interviewed by the Wall Street Journal") makes it clear it's a good PR piece.<p>I'm perfectly willing to believe he's fabulous, but this didn't move the needle for me.
12/6/2025, 1:41:55 AM
by: foobarian
Wow is it me or is the self promotion strong in this one.
12/6/2025, 3:36:06 AM
by: shrubble
If my back of the envelope math is right, in the last 6 months he’s been attending more meetings at possibly odd hours; he lives in Australia and Intel is based in the USA.<p>See <a href="https://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2025-05-22/3-years-of-extremely-remote-work.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2025-05-22/3-years-of-extr...</a><p>77 meetings then, but 110 meetings in his resignation blog post…
12/6/2025, 5:05:16 AM
by: senkora
He doesn’t mention it in this post, but in another post he talked about the toll of needing to frequently attend meetings in the middle of the night in his time zone.<p>Whatever his reasons for leaving, I hope that he finds a better balance in his new role.
12/6/2025, 4:42:34 AM
by: maliker
Masterclass in turning a goodbye email into a hire me after my next gig ends. I’m not being sarcastic, this is a great example of highlighting the value they added.
12/6/2025, 3:51:00 AM
by: bfrog
Intel losing great people at high speed. Not the first, not the last.
12/6/2025, 12:09:33 AM
by: dramm
A periodic reminder Intel is still in business.
12/6/2025, 1:28:32 AM
by: xer0x
Hats off to Brendan!
12/5/2025, 11:41:26 PM
by: al_be_back
Leaving intel? That’s one case where an employee won’t get chastised for
12/6/2025, 3:20:03 AM
by: cebert
I’m wonder how much longer Intel will be around. It seems to be dying a slow death like Kodak or IBM at this point.
12/6/2025, 1:04:57 AM
by: wferrell
So...oai or google?
12/6/2025, 2:58:44 AM
by: markus_zhang
Congratulations. A fulfilling life.
12/6/2025, 12:26:22 AM
by: seneca
I'm guessing he'll land at one of the big frontier model companies. I'm surprised he stayed at Intel as long as he did, they are dying fast.
12/6/2025, 1:19:01 AM
by: benwills
In the photo of him on his last day [0], there's a cassette deck on his desk.<p>That could be something mundane, but I'd like to believe something crazy happens if you yell at it [1]...<p>[0] <a href="https://www.brendangregg.com/blog/images/2025/brendanoffice2025dec.jpg" rel="nofollow">https://www.brendangregg.com/blog/images/2025/brendanoffice2...</a><p>[1] <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDacjrSCeq4" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDacjrSCeq4</a>
12/5/2025, 11:49:08 PM
by: brcmthrowaway
Terrible news from Intel, this guy seems like the best performance engineer on the planet
12/5/2025, 11:12:44 PM
by: ChrisArchitect
Extra slash in the url
12/5/2025, 9:37:05 PM
by: bibimsz
dude loves the color salmon
12/6/2025, 2:17:43 AM
by: ohhellnawman
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12/6/2025, 4:35:11 AM