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Pre Silicon Validation Engineer Gr 8
Former Employee
Worked at Intel for 6 years
September 25, 2013
Austin, Texas
2.0
Doesn't RecommendNegative OutlookNo CEO Opinion
Pros

Lots (and lots) of free time and the food in Austin is great.

Once you get used to it, it is entertaining to watch how many people it takes to screw in a light bulb.

Cons

Morale is low, and management "can't understand why."

Unwillingness to adopt industry standards, external tools, innovate, or even listen to new ideas.

Each project spends months and millions re-creating the wheel without sharing with other projects.

At any given time, there may be two to three groups all duplicating effort, with no mind share.

More often than not, it takes several engineers and a manager or two to accomplish what a single engineer does outside of Intel.

Advice to Management

Baseless arrogance -- accomplish something first, then acquire an attitude.

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