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A few bad apples..

Graphics Software Engineer
Current Employee
Has worked at Intel for 6 years
July 31, 2020
Hillsboro, Oregon
4.0
Doesn't RecommendNegative OutlookDoesn't Approve of CEO
Pros
  • Nothing that I would call "crunch".
  • Your personal time is respected.
  • The vast majority of people (managers and workers alike) are mature and get along well, allowing you to focus on the work, not drama (at least they were in my group).
  • If your manager likes you, you can go far.
Cons

Important decisions are left up to single individuals who may disagree with what the data and other experts tell them.

If your manager doesn't like you, you're wasting your time.

Messaging from upper management is all corporate buzzwords. The higher up in the chain, the more useless the message.

Perks have been quietly fading away for years.

Advice to Management

There are decision makers in the company who have single-handedly cost the company billions over the last decade. Ask your engineers what decisions have been made over the last decade that hurt their productivity most, and trace those decisions back to their origins. There are people who keep making the same poor decisions that repeatedly impact the productivity of hundreds of engineers, and we just keep letting them do it again and again.

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