Intel

Fantastic culture, work-life balance, benefits, mostly all pampering.

Amazingly professional work environment. With respect to aspects other than work, you can challenge anything and everything, and you will be heard for sure. This place is a home away from home.

Vertical orgs can be really good to work for, but only in techno-functional areas.

If you are an activator, performer, disruptive, or thinker, then stagnancy will haunt you every two years or less.

Work progress is very slow.

Exposure as a technical person is negligible (mostly in all IT groups) except for the tech you are working on. Exposure and learning are strictly subjected to your own interest; nobody will say a word if you remain an average performer even for years. Even in that, there will be a team to take care of related worries.

It's basically a place of talkers; the number of doers is so less that you can ignore them.

Two good parts:

1. If you are lucky and highly patient, then instead of just working round the clock, get yourself heard by management, and you will shine, unless by then your ego and zeal have not died.
2. This place can be amazing if you are hired at some managerial level, then just settle for life :)

Walk the talk at ground level. Be a risk taker.