Intel Corporation Reviews

I have been working at Intel Corporation full-time for more than 8 years

Pros – Good management, benefits, and compensation

Cons – Limited mobility, high demand work

Advice to Senior Management – Compensation is falling behind, after 7 years of negligible raises

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

I have been working at Intel Corporation full-time for more than a year

Pros – -Cutting edge technology
-Best in industry in CPU design
-Top class products with Core,Xeon and Xeon Phi.
-Stability
-Easy to move across teams
-Some really smart folks, especially in Arch, RTL and Circuits
-New CEO is extremely bold, willing to make radical changes to transform the corporation into SoC design and try out new areas and ventures
-Good place for new folks to learn as much as they can
- Well poised to gain mobile traction in the upcoming years
-Open environment, good work-life balance

Cons – -Too big, sometimes you feel like a dot in a painting
-Risk-taking, some groups are slightly averse to this idea, but the new CEO seems better than predecessor at this.
-Lot of old folks, in dire need of some young blood in the company especially in Santa Clara
-Growth opportunities might be limited if you are in a team with too many old-timers
-Pay is not great in Santa Clara, if you start comparing Intel to Apple, sometimes causing the company to struggle to retain top talent but on par with Nvidia and better than Qualcomm
-Politics is prevalent at 2nd level managers and above
-Afraid to fire ppl who are crap
-Raises are lower than rest of industry, but good bonus and decent stock options
-Workplace is rather dull. Grey everywhere.

Advice to Senior Management – -Be bold. Take strategic risky moves with strategic OEMs. Already see this happening. Would like to see more.
-Increase base pay and benefits in Santa Clara. Below par when compared to rest of Silicon Valley like Apple, and Google. We barely match Nvidia although we do better products. Pay + Incentive system needs to be revamped. Start doing focal every quarter or two quarters.
-Give better raises and benefits to retain talent. There has been attrition need to stop that immediately.
-Don't be afraid to fire slouchers. There are some ppl in the company who don't know what they are doing after 20+ years. Why are they even here?
-Start doing free dinners. Food is not that subsidized in cafeteria. Ppl work late and they are desperate for something to munch.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

I have been working at Intel Corporation

Pros – WLE, challenging work, smart people, benefits are good

Cons – really not much for cons

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

I have been working at Intel Corporation full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – High integrity people with high level commitment.

Cons – Large size increase slow downs decision making

Advice to Senior Management – Keep the culture intact. It is a great company.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

I have been working at Intel Corporation full-time for more than a year

Pros – Research performed at D1D fab is one of its kind on the planet and it sets up land mar for its competitors. Highly focussed research

Cons – There is not time bound research. Work is 24/7. Sometimes you get to sleep 2-4 hours per day for two weeks straight. Being on call is a part of life, however it is challenging during vacation period like independence day, memorial day, thanksgving and christmas due to the availability of limited resources. Sometimes, there are no technicians to run the tools/machines.

Advice to Senior Management – None. Please improve life/work balance rather than work/life balance. Increase the head count rather than decreasing it and paying bonuses for working with limited resources.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

I have been working at Intel Corporation full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Focus on deliverables and results. Open, honest culture. People are encouraged to move around inside the company, every level of the company is encouraged to participate in all discussions. If you are in the room, you are included in the discussion.

Cons – Not all groups are created equal. Lots of very smart people. There is a tendency to a culture of "no" and risk taking is waning from the culture.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

I have been working at Intel Corporation full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Good Flexibility when it comes to Life Events. Excellent Health Insurance and Benefits. Good bonus program and total compensation. Health Care on site. Job security appears to be excellent.

Cons – High Stress Job. Highly competitive with few advancement opportunities. Culturally, Intel is almost completely work focused and not very 'friendly'. Being in an engineering role, the personal interactions you will see will be very limited. Don't expect to go to a lot of happy hours with your coworkers.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

I have been working at Intel Corporation full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Lots of opportunities for talented engineers.
Challenging work.
Great place to work.

Cons – Trending towards more APR logics and less custom design - which isn't as fun.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

I worked at Intel Corporation as a contractor for more than 10 years

Pros – Overall is pretty effective for Intel's size.
For most positions, meritocracy prevails.
Encourage and facilitate employees to transfer.
Decent compensation.
Every employee is in a cubicle, no office even for CEO.

Cons – Very intensive and not for faint of heart.
For some groups, bureaucracy of large company is visible.
Capital allocation ability of top management appears to be sub-par, this has lead Intel to be stuck with limited products and markets.

Advice to Senior Management – Encourage designers to think more innovative instead of following check list.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

I worked at Intel Corporation full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Very high compensation.
Cutting Edge work.

Cons – Prefer not to say at this time.

Advice to Senior Management – It is time for you to lead Intel Corp through the next leap of faith.