Intel

Free bad coffee, one piece of fruit per day, pockets of decent people, relative good pay for the Portland, OR area.

The company does not have direction. Executive management is not inspiring nor leading. I don't think that Intel can reinvent itself to be competitive in the future. Intel is too internally focused by middle and executive management to address basic business threats.

Intel does NOT have a culture of innovation, but rather it is a culture of butt-kissing management and fighting other internal groups who are doing nearly the exact same work. Intel still has some pretty good fab processing, but it is certainly not leading edge anymore, and the product groups are just a joke.

I think that Intel will collapse in on itself and will significantly decrease headcount in the next 4-5 years. The CEO seems to focus on URM's, conflict materials, and any other political-based metrics rather than making the business healthy. His direction and executive/middle management execution has killed all positive thought in all of the groups I know of, and people are just putting in their time.

COB: Get rid of the exec management, including the CEO.

CEO: Quit playing with dancing spiders and quad copters. Pay attention to the business and really try to be competitive. There is NO innovation due to exec and middle management – get rid of the bad people. Set up mechanisms to measure what is right and what is wrong, and act accordingly. Quit the political crap of conflict materials and URM's. You have basically killed all fire and desire in your employees. People are either playing political games or are just putting in time to get a paycheck.