Intel

Workspace, pay, benefits, sabbatical, bonuses. Truly diversified in acceptance of lifestyle.

Politics, favoritism, ignorant management, review system.

Open your eyes and change. The people that work for you will eventually bring you down. Our group went through supervisors like butter.

Reviews were written by employee, then submitted to engineering group by supervisor, then they decided on performance, then results provided support for raise and/or advancement. That is where the problem is.

First four years I received massive performance-based review increases and advancement. I always shined in my reviews. Then changed to a new manager and all went downhill. Even though my review was identical to the previous year, it started going downhill in valuation. Favoritism ruled. A teammate that had been caught timeclock cheating was getting massive rating and grade advancements. He was a "lady killer".

I was doing so much extra for the entire manufacturing organization all over the world and nothing to show for it. I was initially getting awards every quarterly meeting. Changed to a new manager and nothing... The managers (actually supervisors) actually submit and control those awards.

Everyone at Intel that was there over 5 years knows the same thing on the manufacturing floor. You get to a plateau and then they make up stupid stuff that tries to validate not giving raises. I got to the point that I took their own line-for-line itemized evaluation for my job and proved with specific examples how I well exceeded 90% and then at least met the other 10%. I received a "meets" requirements and 2% raise.

Morale is horrible and management cannot figure out why! Duh! They hold a group study and tell everyone right up front that they cannot talk about certain things like the review system. They know it is horrible and no one likes it or they would not have banned it from the discussions.

For the employees that just float around and do average work but really try, this is an awesome place to work. Stay under the radar, don't be known by name or you will step on somebody that you don't know and suddenly you will have nowhere to go no matter how you perform.

The only way out of this is to stick to strictly performance-based evaluations. You should do this... You did this... Good or bad, there is little subjectivity and that keeps out the politics and favoritism.

It is a shame. I was convinced that it was the last place I would ever work. I left and opened my own business and it is booming. Working on my third expansion office now. I still miss Intel as a whole but don't miss the bloated and unresponsive system. It is kind of like an incurable flesh-eating bacteria. It will just eat away all the flesh of the company until just bones are left. No matter how much perfume you spray on the rotten flesh, it will eventually decay away and infect good flesh.

Intel was good to me but the lower management and review system are killing the working population. All my friends that are still there tell me nothing has changed. Management is still confused as to why offering free fruit and free soft drinks did not fix the morale issue.

Good luck, my friends. I used to think competitors never had a chance. Take care of your people and they will take care of you. Intel is riding on market share and not paying attention to the bottom line. It is collapsing from the bottom up and can never withstand it no matter how much money they have. George Washington cannot make wafers.