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Great Perks, Limited Coding

Applications Developer
Current Employee
Has worked at Intel for 4 years
September 21, 2015
Hillsboro, Oregon
3.0
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Pros

8 Week Paid Bonding Leave, Sabbatical, Vacation.

There are a lot of perks, like the employee purchase program where you can buy CPUs and other PC parts for cheap. They also have free beverages in the cafe.

Cons

Not a good place for an Application Developer. They will always prefer to buy boxed solutions rather than build systems in house.

If you like to write code and you are not a low-level C or assembly programmer, then your contributions will not be appreciated.

A lot of the work they call Application Development is actually just implementing 3rd party software. They have a lot of misleading job titles.

Advice to Management

Don't be afraid to let your employees do their jobs.

If you want to do a job right, then sometimes you have to do it yourselves.

Don't always rely on third-party solutions to solve your problems.

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