Intel

Good pay and benefits; decent work/life balance; work on industry-leading products; stable employment with rare layoffs; encouragement to find new opportunities within the company; plenty of good, solid people to work with.

Competitive pay and benefits seem to aim for average.

Vacation time can be upset by manufacturing and product release cycles.

Getting things done can be slow and tangled in bureaucracy.

Significant communication overhead (email, IMs, meetings).

Coordinating across worldwide time zones is painful.

Difficult to drive change and improvements.

Lots of meetings and a seeming expectation to be immediately reachable and interruptible when working.

Regular reorgs.

Management often seems disconnected from engineers and engineering work.

Always stretched thin and understaffed despite having so many employees.

Business decisions often don't make sense.

Plenty of mediocre coworkers to suffer through.

Streamline the workflow for efficient engineering and better employee engagement. Aim to value and reward thorough, up-to-date, and accessible documentation over tribal knowledge. Get a better grasp of the market and customer needs.