Intel Chandler Arizona Craig Barrett cubicle culture

Anecdotal portrait of Intel's flat-hierarchy office culture circa 1995, used as texture around the tab-bonded-tape story. May be a recurring anecdote across Tom's lectures.

So Gene Meieran, who's a graduate of this department and is an Intel fellow — I was down at Intel in Chandler, Arizona, he said, I want you to meet Craig Barrett, who at the time was president of Intel. We go rushing through all these buildings about three-quarters of a mile, and we get to Craig Barrett's office, and he had a cubicle just like all the other people with cubicles, and his secretary had a cubicle. His cubicle was about 50% larger than the average person's cubicle, but this was Intel's culture at the time. They did have conference rooms, but everybody could use them for meetings of two or three people, so you could have a private room if you were going to fire somebody. So I met Craig Barrett at that time.