When Jacqueline Lopez arrived for her first day on the job as a new program manager at Intel’s Mobile Platforms Group, Jessica Rocha, her boss, handed her a calendar bursting with already-scheduled meetings. These meetings had nothing to do with the usual employee-orientation process, through which new hires learn about Intel’s values and human resources procedures. Rather, Rocha had scheduled face-to-face interviews with people across Intel who had the technical expertise, cultural lowdown, and political “juice” Lopez would need to accomplish her work.