Intel

As Intel grows into more market segments, it also becomes a company that can help you grow your technical scope and learn many new things. You also have a chance to work with different geographies and gain experience in how to work with different cultures.

Focusing on Electrical Validation, you take the responsibility of assessing product performance in terms of its hardware functionality and giving feedback to the design/architecture teams with the objective of guaranteeing that the final product meets its specifications with a high level of confidence.

As an Intel employee, you will enjoy many of its benefits, which may include:

• Many days of vacation
• Quarterly bonuses
• A savings fund
• Food/purchasing stamps
• Recognition bonuses ...among others.

Being Electrical Validation, one of the last stages of the product life cycle (right before sales, just after manufacturing), the time constraints to do your job can be very aggressive. This leads to a pronounced work-life unbalance, and as Intel increases its product cadence, that starts to happen more frequently.

Though they have good options for learning, their career development process is very ambiguous and slow. It is highly dependent on the manager's mood (which can be beneficial or detrimental), and there are no clear goals to achieve a promotion. It is also easy to see that people who have stayed in the company for more years have a better chance of getting one of the available promotions, putting everyone else in the queue. So, if you are going to enter Intel, you better ask for a salary that makes you happy for a long time.

Set clear, objective, and measurable goals.

Do not mix emotions or feelings with your work.

Recognize your employees in good and bad times.

Put trust in your employees, and they will trust in you.

Be fair with your employees: think in terms of the team and not in terms of your favorite.

Allow your employees to explain themselves when they commit errors.