Intel Corporation Reviews

Pros

Great benefits, Very competitive pay. Great people.

Cons

Pay could always be better. Opportunity for vertical movement seem limited.

Pros

lots of growth opportunities are available for freshers
great place to work
lots of volunteering activities
flexibility to choose our interesting area

Cons

Not much communication happens with HR

Advice to Senior Management

Try to inspire and motivate the new generation fresher employee because these freshers employee have ultimate creative thinking power and new ways in various field. Please help them to grow with their way of thinking

Pros

Flexible work schedule.
Good travel.
Descent pay.

Cons

Focal - employee reviews. This is a breakdown of teamwork. Co-workers are ranked and rated against each other creating backstabbing environment.

Advice to Senior Management

Treat all employees with respect.

Pros

Lot's of resources and strong balance sheet to pursue multiple opportunities. Possible to keep busy with different jobs, although at the expense of no career growth (double edge sword). In general top technical people are easily approachable.

Cons

Sr. execs very slow in hearing employees. Lots of talk to develop employees with no follow through. Demands top notch work with average compensation and no career growth opportunities. Slow to respond to market/consumer expectations. Too many re-orgs in hope of developing new products/initiatives.

Advice to Senior Management

Overhaul middle management rank (many extremely demotivate employees), remove politics from promotions. Internal movement should be lot more easier and at par with hiring externally, ie. no manager notification, asking reviews etc.

Pros

Good place for non exampt workers.

Cons

Process engineer often take lots of abuse from yield engineers. Process engineers are often called tool owner at Intel. Work-life balance is poor especially at Hillsboro site.

Advice to Senior Management

Strive to be the great place to work.

Pros

-Very good work-life balance (almost too much life balance cause I'm surrounded by people taking advantage of the system and not even working 40 hours/week)
-Can take off time and/or work from home whenever you need (big positive)
-Excellent benefits
-Sabbatical every 7 years (8 weeks paid vacation)

Cons

-Intel is not a growing company so there is little opportunity to advance unless you are junior
-Top management seems very competent and in tune with Intels competitive advantages/disadvantages and what to do about the disadvantages. Middle management however doesn't have the stones and/or risk taking ability to follow through with what upper management wants them to do in order to mitigate and/or turn the disadvantages into advantages.
-Once you're experienced, job no longer becomes challenging. If this is what you're looking for then fine. If you're looking to get fulfillment out of your job as well or career growth Intel might not be the best place for you.
-Established flows in many teams are outdated, slow, and extremely non-competitive with outside companies. Again, middle management won't change since they are out of touch with the actual work and has no risk appetite.

Advice to Senior Management

Paul Otellini has been a great CEO to work for. He's articulate, charismatic, can convey Intel's business strategies clearly, and has Intels stock price moving in the right direction (finally :-) ). However, the message that he speaks seems to get lost somewhere in the entrenched middle management. And with a company that is not growing and EVERYONE now focused on covering their own back and not the companies future, I fear Intel will continue to struggle mightily in the mobile arena and eventually need to cut headcount.

Pros

good benefit and allowance for servicing the company.
great training opportunity given.
foresee about our career path under the great guidance of manager

Cons

under pressure when there is multiple projects to be completed in short period.
poor communication among employees due to large organization

Advice to Senior Management

organize more team buiding or award which will involved all the employee.
reasonable time line being given for a hard task

Pros

If you are a hardware engineer, you would love it because you could be designing one of the most complex things in the world. Job stability is something that you would like.

Cons

Based on which group you work on your stress level will vary. Could be very bad. Salary is not the best. You can easily find someone beating the intel salary if you are good engineer.

Advice to Senior Management

Intel always seems to make everyone happy independent whether the group makes money or loses money. This caues that people who work hard and deliver products in time to make money for intel to be treated on par with people who dont make money for intel. When it omes to performance reviews and pay structures, I feel that the work stress and contributios of key groups are not reflected in the pay accordingly.

Pros

Compensation was excellent, both pay and stock options.

Cons

Very political. Senior management was poor. Very selfish.

Advice to Senior Management

Try to be more human on business decisions. You don't invest in a direction, only to change your mind without making the course.

Pros

Great Work Life Balance and flexibility in work timings

Cons

Low Level Managers are bad.
Apprisal process is not transparent. Managers can do anything they want.
Good people often leave due to politics issues
Definitely not a good company for College freshers.
Less scope of Learning
Less Salary compared to other Tier 1 companies.
Less Sal Hikes

Advice to Senior Management

A big change is needed at the root level to retain good people. Managers need to questioned on their transparency in Apprisal process.