Intel

Overall, the benefits of healthcare, vacation, and paid time off were very good. Their 401K was excellent for giving freedom to invest in several options.

Intel fails to look at the person as a total package and, in many ways, refuses to understand how a person can strengthen an organization.

My interview process consisted of two 20-minute telephone calls, and I was made a job offer.

The Intel plant I worked in was 15 miles from my house.

I was told that my experience was above working on the production floor as a manufacturing technician and offered a position as an engineering technician.

In my 2.5 years at Intel, I never sat down with a manager and went over my resume, my career goals, or how I could advance my career.

There was no guidance, no action plan, and overall communication was poor.

Intel takes a very responsible attitude towards safety, but then leadership fails, which was evident by a recent issue where employees were given a test on Lock-Out Tag-Out and the failure rate was well above 50%.

The belief at Intel is that a computer is all people need for training, and then if mistakes are made, it is not the company's fault.

Intel management: If you make a verbal commitment, then have the respect to live up to it. Do not hide behind a piece of paper saying that was never documented, so that conversation never existed. Remember, 25 years of semiconductor background is a lot of experience to waste.

Having been in a leadership position at Motorola and given a team of people I had never worked with before, I took each employee and interviewed them. From this, I built a program to have equipment team leaders and to mentor technicians who were less experienced. It's called not having all your eggs in one basket and having a backup plan.

Within the Thin Films group in F32, there were group leaders with 7-10 people. To tell someone that you do not have the time to sit down and look over a person's strengths and weaknesses is a failure. Group leaders were quick to tell someone how they were not living up to a skills knowledge outline. Yet, I observed technicians with no college, no military, and less than 15 years of experience who were promoted to the highest level of technician.

If a technician at the level of a Grade 57 does not know the difference between a PNP or NPN transistor, then how do you justify that?