Intel

Benefits, but everyone else offers the same or better benefits. Good work-life balance, like anywhere else. I do like the company (but not my department).

At least on my department:

As a blue badge:

Big salary gap between techs whom are doing the very same jobs as anyone else with the same experience.

• Poor training, and no trainer follow-up, and no follow-up of trainers; no one supervises the trainer's progress.
• No training for someone who will be promoted, and there is no compensation if you get promoted. You will receive the same salary for 5 years (again, life is short; this is not ethical at all).
• Very poor mentality from some senior techs, with very poor ethics and poor team-playing skills. Some new techs are good enough but already got spoiled by the negative team culture.
• New techs are poorly trained due to the lack of trainers and lack of safe practice.
• If you have a project idea, you better never tell anyone because some techs will steal your idea and get all the credit for it, and the management will do nothing about it.
• The salary is below national average (if you work on a tech job for 4 years+). Contractors make way more (including their contracts and expresses to have them on site) than blue badges. Contractors are way more organized (Now where is the so-called cost saving? For me, it is a non-sense excuse).
• You may get a considerable raise every 10 years.
• Each time you get a little yearly wage, they will make a big deal and say that you got a bigger raise than anyone else, which is a lie.
• Too much talk, too little action.
• Empty promises to keep the team motivated, and they pile up and fall at some stage and can go out of control; I find it completely unethical.
• Because your manager is friendly with you, that does not mean that they care.
• If you work harder than anybody else, all you get is a thank you, nothing else; most of the times not even a thank you.
• These complaints are known to the management, and they are totally aware of these negative queries, and they refuse or pretend not to see it, which means things will never change on this particular department.
• I have seen great talents and individuals leaving the department due to the poor salary, management, and poor team ethics.

However, I know from other blue badges who work at other departments, and those departments are way better and totally the opposite of this negative review.

Be more professional and transparent. Please stop making empty promises to everyone on the team; this makes people more angry and demotivated, and it impacts team performance considerably.

Two manager meetings per year are enough. You don't need one every two months with a different promise each time.

Make a system. The training grade must be strict to the salary earned. Do not promise a higher salary before the employee completes the training.

This is the most basic and logical business practice. First, training, then a two-month solid trial, then manager feedback on whether the position is accommodated for that employee, then promote the employee accordingly.

Whatever I say will not change. The whole team should be changed, starting with the senior techs, which are poisonous to the business's health.

A task force to develop a solid system: training, safety practices, documentation, and daily actions, starting with solid specs in layman's terms.