Intel

• Open, honest, consistent communication (and lots of it)
• Very disciplined
• Process oriented
• Results driven
• Strong company/corporate culture across all sites
• 2-month paid sabbatical after 7 years of hard work
• Well-defined technical career ladder

• Not enough customer focus.
• Inability to be agile.
• Too much focus on process chokes innovation (particularly software).
• Work environment can be stressful due to focus on results.
• Myopic business focus (it's always just "CPUs, chips, semiconductors..."; that's all management seems to understand).

Continue to focus on serving the customer.

If Intel is ever going to successfully expand into anything beyond chips, they are going to have to learn how to work with other companies and people.

Also, if business expansion outside of chips / semis ever does take place, consistent expectations regarding realistic margins will need to be internally communicated ad nauseam until people actually believe it.