Intel

Diverse workforce. Advancement criteria clearly defined. Great benefits.

Strong emphasis on individual contribution fosters competitive instead of cooperative behaviors.

Software engineering practices and capabilities in my org are decades behind the industry.

Inexperienced software engineers utilized to design complex systems.

Widespread lack of critical thinking and root cause analysis.

Continual cutbacks in IT are negatively impacting productivity for the rest of the company.

We need a better mix of high-level managers with software engineering experience instead of mostly hardware backgrounds.

Software engineering needs to be recognized and valued as a core competency instead of a means to sell hardware.

We need to make better trade-offs between software schedule, quality, and features to improve development velocity.

Reliance on hiring software engineers in India to save money is often very costly.