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There are better places to get rewarded if you are really smart, but very few with the same level of technical challenge

Principal Engineer
Current Employee
Has worked at Intel for 20 years
March 4, 2018
4.0
RecommendsDoesn't Approve of CEO
Pros
  • Flexible schedules (but most still work 50-60 hours/week)
  • Higher than average job security
  • Nice, affordable, family-friendly sites/locations in the US, with alternatives abroad, as well as in the Silicon Valley.
  • Wide breadth of kinds of engineering projects to work on, both hardware and software.
  • Not a cut-throat, A-type, Ivy League-personalities competitive environment.
  • High rate of retention of good people.
  • Good chances to get ahead if you are smart and responsible.
  • One among very few A-list tech companies that also owns manufacturing of the highest-complexity products in the world.
Cons

Big company, bureaucracy, lots of average/below-average people. Highly depends on a project; some core projects do have A-class people.

People working on the highest complexity projects are not rewarded versus the rest. The overall average complexity of work-to-pay ratio is lower compared to top-paying tech companies.

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