Intel

Intel has flexible time off for salaried employees and a nice but pricey cafe.

There are a handful of talented and smart engineers here, but they are few and far between.

Intel as a company has fallen hard in the past 5-10 years. Most of the nice benefits of working here are a thing of the past, and the culture and morale are currently awful.

There is no more teambuilder budget. The 7-year sabbatical is now 4 years only. Bonuses are awful because they are based on the company's revenue, which has also been awful.

Every team is currently running with a skeleton crew due to budget cuts and management not hiring while allowing attrition from low morale to lower headcount. Pay is no longer competitive with other fabs.

The culture is bureaucratic, yet demanding and stressful. Training is non-existent since management removed the budget for it and just expects employees to train each other. Layoffs are getting more and more frequent.

For salaried engineers, expect many calls outside of normal hours and late nights working. Intel has the opportunity to allow employees to work from home but instead forces everybody on-site, even if a job is capable of being 100% remote.

Many people here take advantage of the relaxed time-off culture that Intel has by barely ever coming into work, which drains on the team they are a part of. For some reason, management will not punish this behavior.

Lastly, management here is some of the worst I have ever seen in my career. I could write a book talking about management's questionable decisions, indecisive moments, and bad managers that somehow got promoted just because they have stuck around long enough.

Management needs to spend time pruning underperforming employees who exploit their flexible time off culture. Bring back the manager development feedback survey and demote or fire managers who receive poor scores.