Intel

High salary (for where I worked) compared to the region.

One will spend far more time asking for permission to do something than actually ever doing anything worthwhile. Leadership appears to chase one technology fad after another over the past few years. Worse, immediate management rarely has the courage to allow workers to do anything that has a chance for failure. Adding to the disappointment is that leadership is not really open or honest with the workforce (the most public one is why the last CEO left; plenty of news outfits saw this too as well).

Terribly political environment, with company re-orgs essentially the norm. Expect lots of red tape. Getting promoted is tricky for most past a certain grade.

For HW architecture, direct efforts to try different architecture experiments (especially in graphics), as just iterating and tweaking the current design is not going to cut it.