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Working at Intel in Santa Clara, CA: 121 Employee Job Reviews by Real Employee working in Santa Clara, CA Area

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"It was my first tryst in an industrial setting and I loved it. The work was highly challenging and motivating. I was able to ramp up quickly and begin working on the library development. The fun part was the team is under the bracket of HPC and I had the chance to enlighten my colleagues on some of the nitty gritties of it."
Posted 10 years ago in Hillsboro, OR

Working at Intel in Santa Clara, CA: 121 Employee Reviews

Software Engineer

What do you like about working at Intel?

"It has good work and personal life balance. It is well reputed company."

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

"The company is good for those who seek for firmware jobs."

What don't you like about working at Intel?

"The vision is very narrow when it comes to software."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"They have to broaden their vision towards software. They should recognize people for their efforts."

Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 4 / 5
Support You Get 4 / 5 Rewards You Receive 3 / 5 Growth Opportunities 3 / 5
Company Culture 5 / 5 Way You Work 4 / 5
Senior Staff Process Engineer

What do you like about working at Intel?

"Strong and profitable organizationSolid technically and business wiseGood business methodologies"

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

"Focus on business methodologies, white paper review, structured problem solving, and so on"

What don't you like about working at Intel?

"Structure could get stiflingReview process requires 20% get a bad review (though mine were always good)Limited advancement opportunities"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"There is nothing I could really suggest other than a modification to ranking and rating - if you have the 5 top people in the world, and they are all pulling their weight, you shouldn't have to give one of them a bad review"

Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 4 / 5
Support You Get 4 / 5 Rewards You Receive 4 / 5 Growth Opportunities 3 / 5
Company Culture 4 / 5 Way You Work 4 / 5
Systems Analyst

"Good company"

What do you like about working at Intel?

"Good company to work at. People and team members are really great."

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

"No. Great compnay to work with. Go and get a job."

What don't you like about working at Intel?

"Nothing as such. I like for the most part except for salary bonus."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Managment ha sto think out of the box to keep the current employees happy"

Person You Work For 3 / 5 People You Work With 3 / 5 Work Setting 3 / 5
Support You Get 3 / 5 Rewards You Receive 3 / 5 Growth Opportunities 3 / 5
Company Culture 3 / 5 Way You Work 3 / 5
Senior Software Engineer

"My focus is on my work."

What do you like about working at Intel?

"I like and wholeheartedly believe in personal & professional growth."

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

"No tip. Sorry to be of no help. Again people should be the way they are."

What don't you like about working at Intel?

"Anything that impedes what I have just said in the above."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Nothing. Everyone is unique. Therefore management style is also followed with their character & personality."

Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 5 / 5
Support You Get 5 / 5 Rewards You Receive 5 / 5 Growth Opportunities 3 / 5
Company Culture 5 / 5 Way You Work 5 / 5
Layout Designer

"Great company to work for."

What do you like about working at Intel?

"Great enviroment, great benefit with good 401k it's a great place to work for"

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

"just be yourself with a great team work attitude and just go from there"

What don't you like about working at Intel?

"to much politic among all site, out source a lot of job over sea."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"when the review time come at the end of every year, majority of the managment are telling some kind of lie to make them not a bad guys"

Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 5 / 5
Support You Get 5 / 5 Rewards You Receive 5 / 5 Growth Opportunities 5 / 5
Company Culture 5 / 5 Way You Work 3 / 5
Product Development Engineer

"Good people, interesting work, somewhat narrow process"

What do you like about working at Intel?

"Many things to learn, lots of opportunities to learn different tools"

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

"Demonstrate thinking outside the box and applying thinking from different disciplines to problems"

What don't you like about working at Intel?

"Not experimental enough, follows known methods too often and doesn't explore other methods"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Learn to play with ideas, think more of how people will use technology in the mid to far future"

Person You Work For 4 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 3 / 5
Support You Get 3 / 5 Rewards You Receive 4 / 5 Growth Opportunities 3 / 5
Company Culture 3 / 5 Way You Work 2 / 5
Senior Algorithm Engineer

What do you like about working at Intel?

"Intel is very organized company, has very generous bounos plan and many opportunities"

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

"No, I can't think of any tips for other Intel employees."

What don't you like about working at Intel?

"Like any other huge companies, sometimes you feel like a pion."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"The department management doesn't communicate enough with all the department employees."

Person You Work For 4 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 5 / 5
Support You Get 5 / 5 Rewards You Receive 4 / 5 Growth Opportunities 3 / 5
Company Culture 5 / 5 Way You Work 4 / 5
Graduate Technical Intern

"Its been an experience of a life time"

What do you like about working at Intel?

"Its a great company with flexible working hours. Good company culture, great people, hardworking people."

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

"prepare yourselves to do big things, great things which makes huge impact on the society."

What don't you like about working at Intel?

"I like everything about it. There is nothing I disagree with."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Should do more to be competitive, particularly due to rise of other companies in Silicon valley"

Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 5 / 5
Support You Get 5 / 5 Rewards You Receive 4 / 5 Growth Opportunities 4 / 5
Company Culture 4 / 5 Way You Work 4 / 5
Senior Software Engineer

"I had worked at Intel for 12 years and it was a great challenging experience."

What do you like about working at Intel?

"It was a great experience. The team I worked with , we knew each other for many years and had great dynamics. The projects were very interesting."

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

"I used to interview candidates myself. Focused mostly on C++ fundamentals."

What don't you like about working at Intel?

"I wouldn't say I don't like anything specific, just that I needed to try something new."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"The management within the group was pretty much frozen and didn't lift others up with them. They should provide more lateral and upward movement opportunities."

Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 5 / 5
Support You Get 4 / 5 Rewards You Receive 5 / 5 Growth Opportunities 4 / 5
Company Culture 5 / 5 Way You Work 5 / 5
Software Engineer

What do you like about working at Intel?

"Excellent environment, exposure to wide areas and great talented people to work with."

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

"It greatly depends on the area, process is usually tough and high standards are expected."

What don't you like about working at Intel?

"Machine learning has a very low priority in the products being developed."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Act fact in expanding to the new / critical business areas"

Person You Work For 4 / 5 People You Work With 4 / 5 Work Setting 4 / 5
Support You Get 4 / 5 Rewards You Receive 4 / 5 Growth Opportunities 4 / 5
Company Culture 3 / 5 Way You Work 4 / 5
Senior Product Manager

What do you like about working at Intel?

"Great vision. Great people. Great discipline. World class processes and technology"

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

"Ask the tough questions. Pay attention to the culture and the manager."

What don't you like about working at Intel?

"Culture is too harsh and confrontational. Not enough mentoring by senior management. Sink or swim environment."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Mentor junior employees and middle managers. Have a gentler culture where employees can flourish and shine."

Person You Work For 4 / 5 People You Work With 3 / 5 Work Setting 3 / 5
Support You Get 2 / 5 Rewards You Receive 4 / 5 Growth Opportunities 3 / 5
Company Culture 2 / 5 Way You Work 3 / 5
Senior Marketing Executive

"Great experience, both in Europe and US, but too big. Need more entrepreneurial."

Person You Work For 4.9 / 5 People You Work With 4.9 / 5 Work Setting 3.6 / 5
Support You Get 4.8 / 5 Rewards You Receive 3.9 / 5 Growth Opportunities 3.4 / 5
Company Culture 3 / 5 Way You Work 2.9 / 5
Senior DBA
Person You Work For 4 / 5 People You Work With 4.5 / 5 Work Setting 4 / 5
Support You Get 4 / 5 Rewards You Receive 5 / 5 Growth Opportunities 4 / 5
Company Culture 3 / 5 Way You Work 5 / 5
Network Operations Manager
Person You Work For 4.1 / 5 People You Work With 4.6 / 5 Work Setting 4.5 / 5
Support You Get 4.6 / 5 Rewards You Receive 4.5 / 5 Growth Opportunities 4.6 / 5
Company Culture 4.5 / 5 Way You Work 4.3 / 5
Senior Optical Engineer
Person You Work For 3 / 5 People You Work With 3 / 5 Work Setting 4 / 5
Support You Get 2.2 / 5 Rewards You Receive 3.9 / 5 Growth Opportunities 1.1 / 5
Company Culture 1.2 / 5 Way You Work 1.4 / 5

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