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Good top management, poor middle managers

Engineer
Current Employee
Has worked at Intel for 20 years
July 23, 2013
Santa Clara, California
3.0
Doesn't RecommendNeutral OutlookApproves of CEO
Pros

Top managers are frank.

Benefits are reasonable.

Good starting company for college grads.

Some company policies have good intentions.

Company finance is well managed.

Cons

Each site has its own culture.

Too much politics in some sites.

It has annual rank and rate performance, used by poor managers to get rid of unfavorable people to satisfy quota.

Too much BS presentations to managers for their corresponding BS presentations to their managers for their advancement, wasting engineers' time and diverting their attention from technical development.

Advice to Management

Get rid of R&R. It is humiliating, encouraging people to fight in the same group, channeling effort to show only in R&R rather than for the company's good.

Good innovative engineers will not be good salesmen. They may not always have an exemplary career history to tell with many papers written or numerous patents applied. We need to be more open to different facets of talent.

Good managers will recognize and utilize talent. Poor managers get rid of them.

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