Intel Employee Job Reviews in the United States

"intel is a good company"

What do you like about working at Intel?

"very nice enviroment"

"Highly stressful company"

What do you like about working at Intel?

"Short workweeks"

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

"Don't interview there. Pick another company."

What don't you like about working at Intel?

"Too stressful and people there were too uptight."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Anger Management courses could help."

What do you like about working at Intel?

"Aggressive problem solving"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Listen to employees; flatten out the organization"

What do you like about working at Intel?

"Intel was flexible enough so that I could job search while I was there."

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

"Don't plan to stay long or you might end up in a rut. A lot of people often hang on until they hit their sabbatical, only to get laid-off in the year prior."

What don't you like about working at Intel?

"The company is shrinking and off-shoring, so the opportunities for growth are limited. There is also a review policy that requires at least 5% of people be rated poorly. Career success is based more on relationships and doing the right thing for the team can hurt you."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"None - they don't listen."

"Intel is a great company and a great place to work."

What do you like about working at Intel?

"Opportunities for moving into new responsibilities and challenging work projects."

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

"Be open and willing to adapt to an environment that may be very different from what you were used to in past work experiences."

What don't you like about working at Intel?

"Ranking and Rating: During the year, you were supposed to be the supreme team player, but at annual RnR, you had to prove what you alone had done for the company. Difficult to claim credit when it had always been shared as a team!"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Be flexible as you can with employees. Most of us were willing to work very hard and put in long hours, but sometimes needed flexibility, like working remotely, or taking a day off after working all weekend."

"Great company if the jobs stayed in the US"

What do you like about working at Intel?

"The confidence they had in me to get the job done."

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

"It is only temporary"

What don't you like about working at Intel?

"Closed office space"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Good team"

"Intel was an excellent company, but I didn't feel that software engr. was considered important."

What do you like about working at Intel?

"Benefits were outstanding. My initial projects at Intel were incredible, and I grew tremendously as an engineer in the first 3 years."

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

"If you are a software engineer, go in eyes wide open. As long as you are don't mind being a mercenary, you'll be fine. Don't expect sucess to be a factor in long term growth of your team... sad, but a reality in many groups at Intel."

What don't you like about working at Intel?

"Software was considered second fiddle. Almost all of my projects were cancelled, even though in a few cases we had built very profitable products. Constantly seeing friends and teammates fired due to reorg becomes tiring and demoralizing."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"More focus required on a consistent organization for software development for the whole company. Release dead software projects - reuse is good, but pick software and/or software pieces which will promote success, as opposed to creating undue burden."

What do you like about working at Intel?

"Leader in the Industry"

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

"be strong, and do not blink"

What don't you like about working at Intel?

"shrinking industry"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"work life balancing"

"Needed to relocate due to family circumstances. Loved the job."

"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."

"I was layed off from Intel."

What do you like about working at Intel?

"Troubleshooting and installing equipment."

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

"Be open to working lots of overtime."

What don't you like about working at Intel?

"Being laid off."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Expand the employee pool."

"It's a great place to work. I'd have stayed if they didn't have the one-year-only rule for contractors."

What do you like about working at Intel?

"I was intern and it gave me the required exposure to work in a big organization and an insight to Business Intelligence"

What don't you like about working at Intel?

"Growth is limited"

"Never again"

What do you like about working at Intel?

"Nothing"

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

"Beware and watch your back because they will stab you in the back"

What don't you like about working at Intel?

"Mananager and co workers could not be trusted."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"watch your back"

"Good place to work but they did 10% reduction in workforce."