Working at Intel in Rio Rancho, NM: 37 Employee Job Reviews by Real Employee working in Rio Rancho, NM Area

"Intel has competitive benefits."

"Bad management."

"Great place to work if you are a sheep."

What do you like about working at Intel?

"Steady work, they keep you busy. Sometimes it was challenging. The pay and benefits are good, not exceptional but good."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Be very specific about what your assignment will be, get it in writing."

What don't you like about working at Intel?

"the political correctness, the slow movement of ideas throughout the organization, the trickle down mandates."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Allow the engineers to be engineers, not cubed sheep."

What do you like about working at Intel?

"Benefits and career path opportunities were great. Work life balance was starting to get more attention before I left in 2004."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Working at the NM site was probably one of the best locations because it did not have the corporate chew you up and spit you out mentality. AZ wasn't bad either."

What don't you like about working at Intel?

"Long hours."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Drive down decision making to appropriately low levels - empower the employees."

"Growth potential was very limited based on age"

What do you like about working at Intel?

"Fast paced"

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"You will stay at the level you are."

What don't you like about working at Intel?

"The lack of growth potential"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Promote from with in not from the outside"

"Great place for under 40 engineers, after 40 they work you out of the company"

What do you like about working at Intel?

"Great people and technology"

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Have a high tolerance for ambiguity"

What don't you like about working at Intel?

"High in management, low in leadership"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Learn how to lead"

"Pleased to have been part of the Blue"

What do you like about working at Intel?

"oppertunity to grow provided that you met your obligations and had the desire to accept new challenges"

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Focus on what you can develop both individually and as part of the team"

What don't you like about working at Intel?

"It took to long to get rid of non productive people"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"learn from the mistakes made and stop trying to be everything for everyone"

"Cruise-ship now a slave-galley... Good boat, NO rudder!"

What do you like about working at Intel?

"Attention to ergonomics-high; working office environment-good; safety in the workplace-lip service and signage but no enforcement. Co-workers were good people trying to perform well, under financial duress of no cost-of-living raises, much less merit-raises since 2000."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Read up on body-language. They're REALLY into interpreting your capabilities by how you express yourself physically. Don't lean back during the interview...ever...shows aloofness, disinterest. Never speak badly of previous employers as I am now but don't sugar-coat your separation either. As described previously, DO NOT RELY ON THEIR VERBAL PROMISES! GET IT IN WRITING WITH INTEL-LETTERHEAD AND MANAGERIAL SIGNATURES ON IT!"

What don't you like about working at Intel?

"For supervisor-level & higher management the opportunity for advancement and professional growth were great from what I was told. For the lower ranks they were extremely limited if it interfered with your work schedule. Laying off staff, then demanding the few remaining workersparticularly clean-room technicians aka MT's to 'pick up the slack' with no incentives other than the threat of being laid off next, hardly seems like good business practice. When I transferred from being an MT to a Facilities Planner (requiring much more engineering abilities than your usual MT has) I was promised NO reduction in pay, but Intel reduced my pay by 41%, causing me to have to get a 2ND job to meet my mortgage payments. I got financially screwed with NO recourse...I got the job or I could leave. Ultimately I was laid-off after seven years of dedicated employment (Letters of recommendation on file) in spite of the lack of COL-raises and avoiding political in-fighting between departments."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Get back to the template Andy Grove and the other two founders established for the company. Reward the workers for productivity and innovation on the manufacturing floor as well as the egg-head architects of the circuitry. Allow the MTs to expand their education via on-campus online college instruction, if allowing them time to go to class is impossible. Stop treating your night-shifts 4 & 6 like they are lepers not worthy of the same treatment and communication that day-shifters receive. Bring back relevant team-building sessions. Stop arbitrary headhunts every time an MT is involved in a misprocess. Record the glitch and move on by instituting new procedures or changing existing ones. No sense in making the existing paranoia any more tangible than it already is. Recognize & reward those who come up with good ideas to make things better, easier, less costly, safer."

"Nice place but not much room to advance with continuous layoffs."

"It is good"

What do you like about working at Intel?

"I enjoyed the challenge of finding problem and things other people overlooked or never checked."

What don't you like about working at Intel?

"I didn't like it when people gave up without trying."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Make sure people are following the correct procedures."

"Intel was a great place to work but due to the fluctuation of the business it was somewhat unstable."

What do you like about working at Intel?

"The opportunity for advancement, the ability to make a difference from the lowest to highest level and the ability to work with peers in many areas within the organization."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Be positive and confident and gain at least a basic understanding of the company, it's products (the technology) and the job requirements prior to the interview."

What don't you like about working at Intel?

"The unstable environment and lack of security."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Not too much - most of the problems are driven by the market."

"Great in the 90'S"

What do you like about working at Intel?

"Steady Income; Paid for college"

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Be yourself"

What don't you like about working at Intel?

"Hit by economy"