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Good but bad company to work with

Module Development Engineer
Former Employee
Worked at Intel for 4 years
October 12, 2016
Chandler, Arizona
3.0
Doesn't RecommendNegative OutlookApproves of CEO
Pros

Slightly higher than average pay for your work if you are less than 10 years with the company. Definitely excellent as a starter company for college graduates, but certainly look elsewhere after your burnout a few years in.

Diversity initiatives are really excellent! You create your own environment for how involved with the company volunteering and programs you want to be in.

Cons

Be ready to work like a dog in the TMG sector, all while not getting the bonus or pay raise that you were promised when signing up for the company. There is a minimal sense of employee retention based on actual performance. Management expects everyone in your team to boast about themselves as much as possible for minimal raises, if you even get any. The worst part of the yearly review system is that every manager has to choose an unsuccessful employee who didn't boast about their work or get along with their manager well enough.

Advice to Management

Stop promoting technical engineers for management positions.

And if you do, make sure that the Leadership Review actually does something.

My manager made sure to let his employees know that he couldn't retaliate per bad reviews, but was certainly going to know who wrote the review. This caused tension enough for our entire team to avoid writing any review.

Please look into this statistic for flaky management.

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