Intel

• Very smart and friendly people who can help grow you professionally.

• Very interesting and difficult engineering problems to solve; can get a bit addictive sometimes.

• Management does care about your professional development and well-being.

• Great downtown location, compensation, and perks (free metropass, etc.).

• Low stress level - rarely have strict deadlines, and you can take time to innovate.

• Lots of autonomy and flexibility in terms of what you work on, where, and when, etc.

• Not a lot of drama or politics.

• Decent dedication to doing right software engineering, despite imperfections.

• IT infrastructure (computing farm, network storage, etc.) can't keep up with engineering needs; you can't run as many experiments as you want.

• Management is sometimes overworked, meaning less time to care about your progress/development.

• Despite the usually low stress level, you occasionally still need to just focus on getting something done instead of getting it done right.

• Understaffed. It's getting better since Intel acquired us.

• The corporate culture is very good, but probably not as dynamic as newer places like Facebook.

• You can feel distant from the rest of Intel since the acquisition. What the hell are they doing anyway?

• The Toronto Yorkville office could be a bit more colorful!

Keep investing in your talents. Keep growing the business. Keep making the company a fun one to work at. Stay nimble, despite now being part of a gigantic company.