Intel

Getting anywhere requires brown-nosing your way up the corporate ladder. It might be different in certain business groups, but more often than not, people will start something to get recognition and then kill it off before it becomes too difficult.

Success is based on what you say you can do, not what you have done.

These are pros if you think you can succeed in this environment:

• Okay pay
• Awesome health plans
• Good PTO
• Onsite gyms
• Onsite cafeterias
• Stock purchase plans that are as good as free money every few months.

The cafeteria is expensive. The company refuses to use modern development principles, and it's like moving mountains just to get people to use and understand Git. Everything moves at the speed of corporate.

The company is way too hierarchical, massive, and sluggish. No amount of "Transformations" will improve your agility when the culture itself has this mentality of promising but never delivering.