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Big company trying to become more agile

Validation Engineer
Current Employee
Has worked at Intel for less than 1 year
September 29, 2011
4.0
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Pros

Opportunities to work with some of the most brilliant people in the chip design industry (who also often happen to be some of the nicest).

Flexible work schedules for non-fab employees.

Paid 8-week sabbatical every 7 years.

Good benefits and pay -- automatic retirement contribution from the company (not a match like most).

Work/life balance is reasonable in most positions -- the company seems committed to improving this even more.

Cons

Slow, cumbersome bureaucratic decision-making processes at all levels. The company has tried to fix this at the corporate level, but the results have been mixed at best and have not really made it down to rank-and-file employees.

Poor project planning and project resourcing. Constant crisis-mode operation is the result.

Review process based on a bell curve and arbitrary HR quotas.

Advice to Management

Staff projects appropriately.

Keep working to fix the decision-making process.

Respond to customers' needs; don't try to define their needs for them.

Keep the great perks. They are much appreciated and keep employees loyal.

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