Intel

Almost everyone on the engineering/manufacturing side is laser-focused on getting things done.

The company is a lot more psychologically safe now than years ago, so there's less stress from unreasonable expectations, depending on which group you are in.

The company is not immediately saying no to new products/technologies now and hence has a chance to catch up to TSMC and other competitors.

Safety is absolutely Job 1 and NEVER is overridden for profit.

It may not pay the absolute best, but it's much better than it used to be.

Like all big companies, Intel can be slow to turn sometimes. Still have too many meetings and too many people making decisions. The lean back towards stack ranking was a big negative. It's not as bad as it used to be, but still not as good as it was for the last four years. Stack ranking pushes strong person-to-person competition, with some people backstabbing others (doesn't happen that often, but know that everyone that got to VP level or above is an expert at it).

Stop trying to force people back into the office unless they have to be there to do their job.

We worked remotely for 3 years just fine. It's disingenuous to pretend that we did not. Our highest performing quarter ever was during that time.