Intel

Interesting work on market-leading high-tech products.

Good work atmosphere and team spirit.

Flexible work times.

Fair, thorough performance reviews.

Good recognition and salaries.

Great, very smart co-workers and some great managers at the lower levels.

Cost cutting is becoming too aggressive for a company that makes billions in profit. This does not help the company's long-term future, nor the stock price.

The company is very large and "top-down." Communication and the flow of ideas go only one way, from the top to the bottom. Ideas from young, bright people are not taken seriously because these people rank too low in the hierarchy. This is probably a general big-company problem, but Intel is surprisingly poor in mitigating it.

The HR department appears not to be on par with that of other comparable high-tech companies. Employees are regarded as an exchangeable commodity. Talent, creativity, and interests do not really matter because these are soft factors that are not measurable in metrics. If top people leave, just hire a recent college graduate. In high-tech research and development, this thinking hurts.

Stop and reverse the significant negative developments mentioned above. Otherwise, the company is on a pretty good track.