Pros: Very few. Work is okay.

Cons: The company will fail soon. Employees are very low quality.

Pros: Good work environment with awesome coworkers. Plenty of experienced staff to mentor the younger, new-to-the-industry members. Middle management has excellent ideas and inspires the troops to do more. Projects are fun and interesting to work on and provide good learning experiences. Great benefits: three weeks' vacation (untracked except by you), unlimited sick time (as long as you don't abuse it), quarterly and annual bonuses, and a stock program at 15% off up to a cap.

Cons: Communication within and outside of teams is lacking. One person will do something without informing all parties that should be aware of it.

Pros: Interesting work on market-leading high-tech products. Good work atmosphere and team spirit. Flexible work times. Fair, thorough performance reviews. Good recognition and salaries. Great, very smart co-workers and some great managers at the lower levels.

Cons: Cost cutting is becoming too aggressive for a company that makes billions in profit. This does not help the company's long-term future, nor the stock price. The company is very large and "top-down." Communication and the flow of ideas go only one way, from the top to the bottom. Ideas from young, bright people are not taken seriously because these people rank too low in the hierarchy. This is probably a general big-company problem, but Intel is surprisingly poor in mitigating it. The HR department appears not to be on par with that of other comparable high-tech companies. Employees are regarded as an exchangeable commodity. Talent, creativity, and interests do not really matter because these are soft factors that are not measurable in metrics. If top people leave, just hire a recent college graduate. In high-tech research and development, this thinking hurts.