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Becoming just another large corporation

Project Engineer
Current Employee
Has worked at Intel for less than 1 year
June 12, 2008
Santa Clara, California
3.0
Approves of CEO
Pros

Large corporation, reasonable stability. The sabbatical program is becoming unique at other companies, but is still part of Intel culture.

Cons

Intel expects exempt employees to be available 24/7. Manufacturing is especially bad at this. Intel used to pride itself in being different for its employees; now it's just becoming another large corporation.

Advice to Management

Do micro-benchmarking, not just an overall company picture. Intel's obsession with whatever crap Microsoft is pushing is crazy. At least they decided not to go with Vista (But name a large corporation that has?). I've worked at several different high-tech companies, and this is unusual at Intel. I'm surrounded by "Intel lifers". They don't have any idea how other companies do things and are unwilling to listen. It is very difficult to find out what others are doing at the company.

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