Intel

Work is interesting and challenging.

Compensation and benefits are relatively good.

Low-level management is not adequately supervised or scrutinized when problems and conflicts occur.

Senior management has high ideals but does not require the same of lower management, who work directly with the majority of the workforce.

Second-level managers and above have pretty much a free hand in how they run their organizations and are not required to follow Intel policy or culture, as long as the group's goals are being met.

Scrutiny only occurs if some big problem arises that could affect the group's short-term goals.

A single contributor's complaint of policy violations will get no one's attention and can lead to being targeted by low-level management for termination.

The HR open-door process for terminated employees is a joke and is only there to support management and ensure the terminated employee stays terminated.

Do a better job of screening low-level management before hiring or promoting, and require annual reviews of organizations to ensure Intel policies are being followed.

Overhaul the HR open-door process for terminated employees, not relying on high ideals alone to ensure fair treatment, but including a revolving single-contributor review board to ensure honesty in the process.

Many good employees have been lost because of rogue low-level managers who receive the biased support of HR when their actions are questioned by single contributors.