Intel

An extremely competitive place, it makes you grow professionally and intellectually. Other companies like to hire people with Intel experience.

The company has been consistently profitable (gross and net), so bonus/profit sharing is also reliable as part of your compensation.

Intel likes individual contributors to work (and excel) on a very narrow and specific area, so after a couple years it could be darn right boring unless you are a geek. Management doesn't encourage you to change assignments (even they say so).

The company culture is very process-driven (after all, this is a manufacturing company), so the downsides are too many meetings and too many process and marketing people who are not really contributing.

It's an extremely competitive place, so there's a lot of politics, turf wars, and strong-arm tactics.

It's top-heavy, so promotion is hard to come by when you hit grade 8 or 9.

There are too many smooth talkers and marketing people.

There are many recent graduates (undergrad and graduate school), but hardly any gray hair. Go figure.

Don't lose focus. x64 architecture and manufacturing is Intel's real strength, not marketing.