Intel

The company culture is great, a really relaxed leadership style and inclusive team environment.

Competitive salary (if you negotiate properly after the interviews) and a huge benefits package (minor & major medical insurance, plus food & restaurant stamps).

There were a lot of quarterly performance bonuses which at the time helped with the stressing work environment; sadly, those bonuses are now a distant memory. No promotions on the horizon either.

Intel does not have a good short- to mid-term outlook. I really don't know how they're going to survive from here until the Fabs start working in Ohio. It's going to be a bloodbath if a recession hits.

The leadership is in cost-cutting mode. This means we are experiencing compensation reductions as well as freezing all incentives for performance bonuses.

The job description and promotion of the position during the interviews were deceiving, to say the least. I am dealing with a lot of customer support instead of focusing on developing and providing technical solutions.

The technical ramp-up isn't there, and the technical complexity of the problems is huge. Having technical experts constantly leaving the company for better opportunities doesn't help.

Try to retain technical talent. Those people are what make the actual business competitive. Stop trying to fill every position by hiring outsiders. This is a specialized, high-end technological sector; experience matters. Promote, nurture, and compensate your own people first before trying to cover up a position with an outsider that will have to be trained for six months just to be at the same performance level as your entry-level people.