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A great place to be worked into the ground until you give up and just collect a check

Senior Engineer
Current Employee
Has worked at Intel for 20 years
May 31, 2015
Chandler, Arizona
3.0
Doesn't RecommendPositive Outlook
Pros

There are a lot of options to move to different departments across a wide variety of different careers without leaving a single company.

Cons

Working as a salaried employee in a manufacturing role is soul-crushing. The expectation of being on call (and you will be called non-stop) 24/7 for years on end with no compensation lies ahead if you choose this career path.

The only other area of concern is the inability to do what is right. There is an umbrella of upper middle managers at the non-development sites that are neither technical nor leaders. It has created a culture of managing metrics, no matter how ridiculous and pointless the metric. As long as the daily report is green, then expect an email with a dancing Snoopy saying "great work," and if it is red, a frowning emoji saying "there's opportunity." You spend your day making sure unfavorable data is deleted or subverted so the management chain through the emoji master doesn't freak out.

Advice to Management

Stop focusing on diversity and hire the right people to do the job. Intel's focus on breaking the "white man" culture of Silicon Valley is 20+ years behind the curve of society.

People are only judged by their peers on the content of their work, not their color or shape, with the exception of the HR department. Hiring a wide array of diverse individuals to meet a metric has left the company filled with woefully incompetent people, and it is crippling the company.

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