Intel Corporation Reviews

Pros

Feels good being with an undisputable market leader.

Cons

Size and bureaucracy sometimes hinders advancement

Advice to Senior Management

Keep lean and agile teams; keep rewarding different views

Pros

Wonderful work-life balance, benefits and pay. Honest, socially responsible company. Work with sharp, talented people. The company has a great strategy, develops wonderful products, and is always competitive in a difficult market.

Cons

Middle and upper management can be difficult to break into, they tend to rotate the same people around management positions.

Pros

Best pay for people within Associate Degree.

Cons

To growh up you need Bachelor Degree minimum.
Else you will stay Manufacturing Technician forever.
Very hard to transfer from Non-Exempt to Exempt employee.

Pros

For a big company things move reasonably fast.
Culture of competitiveness - do or die attitude.
Good fit for PhDs.

Cons

Healthy levels of stress :)
Politics.
Most people work weekends.

Advice to Senior Management

Employee retention is paramount for success in this competitive market.

Pros

Great opportunity
Freedom
great technology
work life balance

Cons

unstructured training
no training
no proper sharing of work
lack of proper direction
work is some times repititive
night meetings

Advice to Senior Management

wake uo to what is happening at the individuall lvel

Pros

Good Work Life balance and can work from home whenever needed

Cons

Management needs to provide a difinitive direction for the company and take more risks...

Pros

Strong Financial position and market leader in semiconductors. This is a tech person's mecca, you will be rewarded for your technical abilities. If they are strong you will prosper and have the ability to do as much as you can handle!

Cons

Becoming beaurocratic with leaders who do not understand how to manage people, lead or inspire innovation in software. Cowboy development mentality prevails and lack of accountability enable poor performance by organizations. Like any company be careful where you go as organizational politics and discfunctional work environments can limit your ability to contribute.

Advice to Senior Management

Start looking for thought leaders in software who understand how to lead and manage a very human process that is software development. Software is not silicon!

Pros

Its one of the most high tech companies out there and its a great feeling to work on cutting edge technologies

Cons

I feel that the people over here are still stuck in an indian mentality and there is less fair growth but then i would think thats true for all companies in india

Advice to Senior Management

When we hire people on terms of meritocracy we should uphold those ideals. We are surely not doing that in the current group I am in

Pros

Intel is a good brand name

Cons

The salaries that Intel gives in Egypt is not satisfactory

Advice to Senior Management

Take care of your engineers

Pros

Gain very good experience
Good environment

Cons

promotions very limited and work overloaded