Intel

The best reasons are the benefits and the time off.

There are many downsides. The biggest that we face is having way too much management. We have entire layers of managers that do nothing but manage other managers. But when we have a genuine need for more people in the cleanroom to actually make the company money, we're met with snide remarks about how we should just work harder and suck it up with the same headcounts. They'll hire 2 managers for every 1 that leaves the company.

The pay and the entire advancement system need rewriting. When you work for an industry leader, you shouldn't have to take a second job just to make ends meet. That's just what I, and many of my co-workers and teammates, have to do just to make it.

Stop being so damned cheap! Ever since an accountant took over as CEO, everything has been about "cost-savings". It really makes our job very, very difficult when you have to stop production on 21 million dollars in production in order to save 300 dollars on test wafers. It's stupid.