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You find a hell of a lot of lifers in the semiconductor industry from my experience. Intel, TSMC, AMD, Qualcomm, NVIDIA, IBM, ARM etc. It seems to tick all the boxes I guess. Fulfilling work, decent pay, good benefits, and plenty of room for growth both vertically into director role, and horizontally into other teams and domains. There's scope to make a global impact if you're good at what you do.

I couldn't imagine staying at the company I'm at forever, but equally, I'm not particularly drawn to any other company right now.




I noticed that when Intel acquired a startup I had been working for: most of the people I met had spent many years there. The company culture seemed to be set up around taking good care of employees and retaining them for a long time. (They offer a paid sabbatical every seven years, for example, and it's not uncommon to meet people who have actually used it.)

I cannot imagine wanting to stay at any company forever, but Intel was a pleasant place to be. If they hadn't bombed the "fulfilling work" and "room for growth" parts of the equation I might still be there.


A long ago long-term manager of mine from the minicomputer industry (now Dell by way of successive acquisitions) just hit his 43rd service anniversary--started in sales out of school I think. I know a bunch of people at IBM who have been there two or more decades. I've been at several places 10+ years but I seem to hit my limit at about that point.


Regarding IBM, there's allegations that at least part of IBM can be not very nice towards headcount: https://features.propublica.org/ibm/ibm-age-discrimination-a...




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