Intel Corporation Reviews in Portland, OR Area

Pros

You can learn as much as you want and are surrounded by some exceptional individuals. You can branch out and cross disciplines, it is all up to you. If you have the right data that backs up your position, high probability of success.

Cons

As with a big corporation, it seems that there are too many layers before a decision gets done. Sometimes frustrating to always need "alignment" with others.

Advice to Senior Management

Assign objectives, not tasks.

Pros

Although the pay is great, Intel asks a lot from it's employees. I enjoy, personally, many of my co workers. I really like living in Portland - there isn't many finer cities in the USA. Overall, I'm pretty satisfied with my current role and management structure.

Cons

Intel seems to change organizationally a lot. Middle management seems to have political infighting that is completely unnecessary. I prefer a place where people work together better and where the communication between employees are better. Intel also tends to be a bit scattered and not very disciplined when it comes to getting work done. Things are done fast in my area, but not very well thought out.

Advice to Senior Management

Keep up the good work for supporting the employees at all levels. There seems to be a lot of politics in middle management. I would spank the middle managers who seem to be playing politics and not focusing on delighting the customers.

Pros

At Intel I work with many competent and some very brilliant people. I'm allowed a very flexible work environment. The problems are really interesting, and working for the world's largest semiconductor manufacturer is pretty cool.

Cons

Intel is a very "Not Invented Here" company. It is so large and siloed that there can be a lot of duplicated effort. Trying to figure out how to do software that's really relevant to the main business of the company can be difficult.

Advice to Senior Management

Figure out what you really want to do with software and make sure everybody knows it.

Pros

Working at Intel is what you make of it. You have the opportunity to advance in your career and grow. I have held 4 different positions at Intel ranging from entry level technician to Network Engineer in the last 12 years. I have worked in AV, Lan support, VOIP, network Security, Wireless and other technologies. It has been great!

Cons

As I said before, Intel is what you make of it. Some people work tons of hours and kill themselves. This is not necessary at Intel, but you have to learn to push back and manage your workload.

Advice to Senior Management

Keep up the good work focusing on our customers and taking care of employees.

Pros

Pay and benefits are good. Work/life balance is good.

Cons

Since Intel is not growing it's workforce too much anymore, it is difficult to move up the ladder.

Advice to Senior Management

Find a way to get into mobile.

Pros

The company does a great job to support and take care of it's employees. Whether it's career advancement and or education, to health, to work life balance. The two managers I had the pleasure to work with supported me and my work and fought for me when my contract was up to keep me longer. I defnitely felt like my work made a positive impact on the company.

Cons

Intel has a unique culture of work hard and play hard. That culture tends to get caught up in over thinking and too many meetings. It could be difficult to get any actual work done.
If you don't like being walled in by gray cubes you won't like working there.

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

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 place to gain new skills

Cons

Bad place to get any feedback, guidance or direction