Intel

I've been with Intel for more than 24 years. In this time, I have had several wildly different roles. What I have found with Intel is that as long as you are willing to learn, there are no limitations. I knew very little about networking when I was given my first opportunity on a network team. The team saw the potential and then helped me take advantage of that potential, eventually getting to the point where I was designing the networks for the next generation facilities. When it was time for me to do something else, I moved to a very different organization that needed some of my previous skills, but then helped me learn about their role.

You have to be self-motivated. No one is going to spoon-feed information to you; we are always extremely busy.

We have had a number of years where the company kept to the status quo. Our current CEO is changing this. Things look promising, but until the stock price gets back to constant growth (pre-2004), compensation will be less than ideal.