Pros: Employee friendly, good place to work and explore opportunities.

Cons: Needs little improvement in executing projects.

Pros: Transparent Management, High Work Ethics, Work-Life Balance

Cons: May not be the best payer in the market.

Pros: Intel has a lot to offer employees, including a respectful work environment focused on inclusion and ethics. There is flexible PTO, a good sabbatical program, great healthcare benefits, and many more benefits to working at Intel. Compared to previous employers, I find the environment to have relatively low stress and managers, for the most part, to be very flexible and understanding of the human condition. That at times means that I work more than 40 hours each week, but it also means I have the flexibility to take care of family needs during the day and am able to keep daytime appointments outside of work. There's a good culture at Intel, and it is that culture that makes me proud to work here. Intel invests much in its own tools and processes, but has more recently begun moving to industry-provided solutions through EDA vendors, etc. This gives me hope that Intel will embrace tools and processes that will allow them to compete more effectively and offer better, workable solutions for their customers, too.

Cons: Unfortunately, Intel as a company is still stuck on some classic views of hiring and firing that are, frankly, outdated and shortsighted. When times are good, they hire like mad, only to lay off a significant portion of their workforce one to three years later. Seeing this at a macro level, it appears that Intel considers employees more as a cost center than as an investment in the company's future. Intel prefers to lay off employees to save costs rather than rebalance their workforce for greater future profitability. They do not properly consider the deep damage layoffs do to employee morale. By hiring a flood of employees at once (that will simply replace other employees during a layoff later), they not only put strain on their existing employees to train and acclimate a mass of new recruits, leading to employee unhappiness, they waste significant money invested in those recruits while hiring them. When Intel eventually has their big layoffs, they cause enormous damage to morale and a heavier work burden for those left behind. Mistakes are more likely to happen just because it's harder to get everything done on time. Attrition of their experienced employees ramps up for months to years afterward. This is because experienced employees have the best opportunity for finding improved work outside the company at greater compensation levels. Intel needs to refine their hiring/firing practices to a more steady flow. It's time to stop opening the floodgates (mass hiring) and draining the field (mass layoffs). Intel needs to hire in a more measured way, and that means being slower about it and more thoughtful about how they manage headcount. Intel: invest in your employees!