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Great Place to Work, Interesting Challenges, Difficult Work-Life Balance

Validation Engineer
Current Employee
Has worked at Intel for 6 years
September 7, 2013
4.0
RecommendsNeutral OutlookNo CEO Opinion
Pros

Intel takes care of its employees with a good base salary compensation package and fairly decent raises for the first couple of years. The work provides opportunities to contribute to the company very early by embracing the "sink or swim" mentality.

Also, the sabbatical program is one of the nicer perks. Every seven years, Intel provides an eight-week paid vacation for all Blue Badge employees.

Cons

With high demands at work, balancing the demands between your professional responsibilities and your personal life is very difficult. This is most evident in the engineering side of the company. There are long stretches where the workload is extremely high as a project gets closer to one of the major milestones. It is so intense that there's a catchphrase that most employees' significant others use: "the Intel widow."

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