Intel Corporation Reviews

Current Employee – been working at Intel Corporation

Pros – Broad, exciting opportunities for cross training and career changes at a bell-weather industry leader...innovation at its very best...amazing what the engineers can accomplish.

Cons – large, somewhat bureuacratic at times. Lots of lip service about meritocracy, but I am not completely convinced...often feels employees are not valued.

Advice to Senior Management – develop further appreciation of employees in your compensation philosophies.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Intel Corporation

Pros – Name recognition
Be a part of industry leading products
Relatively stable company
Relatively good benefits

Cons – Most jobs are too specialized because of the size of the company, doesn't let you learn a lot
Can be too bureaucratic

Advice to Senior Management – Keep up the good job

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Intel Corporation

Pros – Great opportunities to learn manufacturing processes from an industry leader.

Cons – Long hours, On Call is terrible.

Advice to Senior Management – Need to improve work/life balance.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Intel Corporation

Pros – top technology
aggressive company
stable company
brand name

Cons – below avg pay
long work hours

Advice to Senior Management – need to pay employees better , have more social functions and be impartial to smaller teams and groups . Work life balance needs to be worked on

Former Employee – worked at Intel Corporation

Pros – co-workers are very friendly and open for questions

Cons – manager was busy and give interns very low level jobs, which wasn't so great for learning purpose and growth

Advice to Senior Management – Maybe not treat the interns only as cheap labor and actually give them some quality work to do. Especially if they are not undergraduates...

Former Employee – worked at Intel Corporation

Pros – You get compensated very well as a student intern. You also get all the benefits of insurance. If you are lucky enough to get a manager who isn't busy doing other projects, you may get to do useful work.

Cons – If the team you work with is busy with a project they have been working on before you got there, you will really not have any real work to do besides trying to figure out what is going on.

Advice to Senior Management – If you're going to hire an intern, have a plan for work you would like them to do while they are there. Don't just make up something on the fly that has no challenge what so ever.

Current Employee – been working at Intel Corporation

Pros – place for young people, relative less seniority compare to other places, meaning more opportunities for career development

Cons – no work life balance, resulting high turn over rate
top down decision making instead of technical driven or business driven decision

Advice to Senior Management – promote innovation instead of blocking them

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Intel Corporation

Pros – Intel has great benefits and, depending on what group you are in, give you a lot of flexibility and respect. I love the "about three weeks of vacation per year" and the fact that no one is tracking my hours. They care if I get my job done, not if I left fifteen minutes early. Work can be challenging (in a good way) and I have worked with some of the smartest and most competent people I have ever met.

Cons – Those who can't do sometimes wind up managing. And as a software engineer at a hardware company you are a red haired step child. Intel knows how to make world class silicon, their processes and techniques are stellar. But they haven't grasped that software is different, and without software the best silicon in the world is just a really expensive doorstop.

Advice to Senior Management – Have managers with recent software experience manage software groups. Learn something about software planning. Include software in the product planning process. "Doing whatever it takes" to get software out the door with hardware without planning is not a recipe for success.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Intel Corporation

Pros – Great flexibility allowed - work hours and location usually are flexible so long as the job gets done. The only exception is for management roles were face time is required.

Cons – Overall job demands are very and high with poor work-life balance.
Average compensation - don't expect to get rich at Intel.

Advice to Senior Management – The works hours are too much so there needs to be better compensation or better work-life balance. Today, the compensation is average at best, and maybe in a recession this will work, but when the economy recovers the above recommendation should be taken into consideration.

Current Employee – been working at Intel Corporation

Pros – Great discipline in coming out with product after product. Huge infrastructure in place to do that with.

Cons – Can be bureaucratic at times...ie too many check off items needed by HR or mgmt that get in the way of actual work.

Advice to Senior Management – none

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend