Intel Corporation Reviews in Portland, OR Area

Pros

Great pay. Looks great on resume. Worked on interesting product. Loved the location. Co-workers were cooperative and fun to work with.

Cons

I work in software and Intel is not good (yet) in software engineering. They do not have good practices in place. Requirements are vague and untestable.

Advice to Senior Management

Adopt good software engineering practices (agile). Don't let hardware engineer decide how to design software...it's a completely different ball game!

Pros

Top of the heap when it comes to entry level salary and benefits
Well defined parameters within which one is allowed to work
Very manageable workload
Employees conduct themselves according to company values

Cons

Without post baccalaureate education, being promoted is virtually impossible

Advice to Senior Management

Take risks (as per Intel company values) by allowing driven individuals to prove themselves without having a terminal degree. Keep your employees informed of current business strategies.

Pros

Intel's Fabs are the best in class. There is a great and fast learning experience.

Cons

RCG's -recent college graduates have way higher salaries most engineers.
Grading&Ranking system
Focal-performance review can get you fired...or below expectation...
24/7 oncall work including nights&weekends without pay
No work life balance.
Turn over rate in Hillsboro Fabs is extremely high. Group Leaders and Area Managers and leaving the company as well.
Hillsboro Fab hires mostly RCG's on H1B visa from India as Fab Managers are from India too. They will be stuck here for 5-6 years until get greencard.

Pros

The job was a very good place to learn about manufacturing, however the environment was not very flexible with regards to your personal life

Cons

Terrible work life balance. I often worked all weekend and typically throughout the night. Intel may be better outside of a manufacturing environment

Advice to Senior Management

Find ways to make your employees personal life not a distraction to their work life. You won't retain talented people if you continue to make them work every weekend.

Pros

Intel allows freshly minted engineers to put their money where their mouth is and innovate. For someone who enjoys self guided work, there is a lot of opportunity to demonstrate excellence and receive meritous acknowledgement of your contribution. You will have a chance to prove yourself and then some.

Cons

The quick turns on a product cycle lead meant constant long hours for all engineering staff that frankly didn't end. Pagers and after hours calls are a practical reality of the job. There is remarkably little engagement with the factories until it's time for a tech transfer, which dissociates some of the practical decision making from the engineering novelty. Also, it appeared that there was relatively high "job shift" for incoming engineers to roles outside of development due to a high rate of early burn out.

Advice to Senior Management

It's far more expensive to retrain and recruit talent than it is to describe job functions where people are incentivized to develop within their roles. Consider rotating manufacturing and development engineering roles with each process revision to ensure CIP efforts are driven back through the process, and "repeat" problems are mitigated- not just documented.

Pros

there are many pro's such as time off. excellent pay and benfits plus salary. the company takes good care of its employees. It is a overall good company

Cons

its very competitive working at the company but its a large company and I guest that can be expected. There are not much more cons

Advice to Senior Management

Management in general is very good especiallly when it comes to looking out for the employees and help them achieve their goals.

Pros

Job satisfaction & more stability.

Cons

Though Benefits are great actual pay check is not that great.

Advice to Senior Management

Allow employees to try different job responsibilities without dragging down one's career & compensation growth. Remove disparity b/w new offers existing employees compensation.

Pros

Ability to work on interesting projects that will touch thousands/millions of people internally/externally. Competitive compensation and an appreciation for work/life balance. Never met a bitter person and everyone from senior managers on down was willing to give you the time of day.

Cons

It is at this point a huge company and even though you might not appreciate this on a day to day basis, Intel's size will shape the types of projects you will work on and how much flexibility there is for change. If you don't abide meetings and having upper level management occasionally second guess your work, Intel might not be the best place for you.

Advice to Senior Management

Generally keep doing what you're doing. Be as or more tolerant of risk and give lower level managers the ability to investigate alternatives; your next great product may be the result.

Pros

It is a big company and stable. there is chance to learn more related work compared with other places. Pay is not bad

Cons

work load normally is heavy. There are too many politics. Spend too many time on arguing rather than doing work.

Advice to Senior Management

Less argument. take more risk. Less politics. got to know more about the work to make the right and wise decision.

Pros

Vast company with lot of opportunities to work in different areas.

Cons

Large company that is not growing.