Intel

Nice colleagues, good atmosphere. Equipment is good. A bit too frequent reinstall of the laptops due to upgrades is annoying though. Nice canteen. Flextime possibilities provided. Good salary.

Older and therefore more expensive employees are pushed out the door.

Over-complicated procedures, too much bureaucracy, too much overhead in the administration of one's work.

The never-ending buy-sell or buy-close cycle of business units, together with the employees, is extremely annoying.

Few valuable training offers and little possibility for technical career development (one gets into a box and does more or less the same type of tasks with the same skill set, just because that is what is needed and actually it was needed yesterday).

Forget IT.

Try not to treat people as if they were just a WWID. Prove to them that they are important instead of just telling them.

All the great values that you make sure to post everywhere on the walls and are proud of, they should be evident. They should not be talked about all the time; they should just be followed. Just because they are posted everywhere, they will not be.

Another thing to consider: the overhead put on employees that they have to deal with tasks not directly related to their work is too much. One gets the feeling that one's time is not precious at all. Nobody cares how much time a highly educated, expensive engineer needs to spend solving a problem which normally should be an IT topic. This goes to HR/payroll as well.

Everything that already has a defined and known procedure works. Everything else doesn't.

It would be of benefit for Intel and ease its employees' work and life overall to have its own IT onsite instead of using externals in call centers around the world. Payroll/HR likewise.

With that, you would show your people that they matter to you and their work and time are precious and appreciated.