Pros: Excellent brand, and good pay and benefits.

Cons: Possibly a lot of red tape and many hoops to jump through to get promoted if you don't have an attentive manager.

Pros: Very talented people and interesting projects. Find a good group and project, and there are great opportunities to make an impact.

Cons: It all depends on who you are working for. If you get a "bad boss," it can be a nightmare, and unfortunately, it's getting harder to avoid. The current crop of mid-to-upper level managers, around 50-55 years old, has far more lemons than those in the same positions 10-15 years ago. If you're in a bad situation, you need to move quickly, and that's also harder to do.

Pros: Competitive benefits. Though benefits don't mean anything if it is hell to work there every day.

Cons: Where to start: * Management: * Treats you like garbage. * Takes all the glory for your good results and gives you all the blame for their mistakes. * Plays mind games with you. Pulls you in with empty compliments, has you work hard, and throws you under the bus at a moment's notice if there is any indication that they may receive any kind of negative feedback for anything you may have done, based on their very poor direction. * Overall, emotionally abusive, subversive, and passively aggressive (see the pattern?). * Work environment: * Cannot trust anyone. Because of the dog-eat-dog work environment, you have to be a soulless monster in order to achieve any success at the company. * Do not expect to have any real friendships. Do not expect anyone to care who you are. Everyone is there to survive, and (for those who have been there for some time) understand that it is survival of the most 'paranoid' (see "Only the Paranoid Survive" by Andy Grove, first Intel CEO). * If you like working in a mental and emotional hell, well, look no further, because you have found it! In the words of Dante (from Inferno): "Abandon all hope, ye who enter here." Overall results of poor management and terrible work environment (personally speaking): * Nervous breakdown. * Severe clinical depression (*clinical diagnosis). Glad to say I now work for a company (TOYOTA) that is the anti-Intel in terms of overall work environment. TOYOTA is a company where I feel truly valued. So, unless it is a choice between working at Intel and being homeless or living on the streets, please do yourself a favor and look elsewhere.