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Manufacturing Engineering Technician
Former Employee
Worked at Intel for 6 years
August 23, 2014
Hillsboro, Oregon
1.0
Doesn't RecommendNegative OutlookDoesn't Approve of CEO
Pros

Great pay, benefits, and work environment. There are 9 hours off each night to do whatever you want. Most people go home and sleep for several hours, watch movies, or play video games. However, if they brown-nose the right way, they become the most successful people in the module. If you're lazy, without the slightest ambition, and like choosing the easiest way to do almost nothing to make five figures, Intel is for you!

Cons

You have no career at Intel. Intel could care less about you and refers openly to its employees as "bodies." "We need to get a body on that." If you are anything less than a PhD, then you are an incompetent moron, not worthy of doing the job, and will be easily replaced with the next biological android that is willing to read directions and do what is prescribed. Thought is strictly forbidden; you are not qualified to think if you're not a PhD. They will always choose someone who is nice but loses millions of dollars through low yield, incompetence, and processing, over someone who asks real questions about why products were processed, plans are not done, and missed processes happen. If you have any ambition, drive, motivation, or dreams, Intel is not right for you. If you're a lazy good-for-nothing nobody that likes high pay, anonymity, and being paid for full time while working 12 hours a week, Intel is for you.

Advice to Management

Most management should be fired.

Redundant bureaucracy is abundant, and there are thousands of managers who justify their jobs by the problems they create, namely the idiots they choose to hire.

Every manager I've encountered was an incompetent moron who couldn't manage a fast food franchise.

Take anyone with any competency and put them in the module to work, and there is no need for management. Put incompetent morons in the module, and management will have endless hours of work, trying to work through difficulties of people who do nothing and people who try to do something.

Fire all those who are not there, not working, have no understanding of process, and are gone 9 hours a shift. Management takes the cop-out of, "it's too hard to prove time card fraud."

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