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4.1
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Company Culture
4.1
Growth Opportunities
3.7
People You Work With
4.4
Person You Work For
4.3
Rewards You Receive
4.1
Support You Get
4.2
Way You Work
4.1
Work Setting
4.1
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"I worked for Intel for 3.5 years in the early 2000s. My coworkers were outstanding: supportive, helpful, and smart. My managers were very supportive as well and were technically very strong. I was given the flexibility to solve problems in the way I thought was best. Upper Management was strategic and forward-thinking. Overall, it was a very good experience."
Posted 5 years ago in Santa Clara, CA
Senior Marketing Manager

What do you like about working at Intel?

"Technology leader that felt all employees should be treated fairly."

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

"Know the semiconductor business, do your research, create PPT as to what you can do for the company."

What don't you like about working at Intel?

"I have to work very long hours and travel a bit too much."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Strategy transition to foundry model - build more fabs in US."

Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 4 / 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 4 / 5
Software Engineer
Company Culture 5 / 5
Social Media Marketing Specialist

"Great people to work with, ability to bring new processes to projects"

What do you like about working at Intel?

"Being involved with a company that is a Techology leader"

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

"Be honest, hard working and easy to work with and have fun"

What don't you like about working at Intel?

"There is limited employment opportunities within the company open to contractors"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Extend the contractor time limit to longer than 18 months"

Person You Work For 4 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 4 / 5
Support You Get 4 / 5 Rewards You Receive 3 / 5 Growth Opportunities 1 / 5
Company Culture 4 / 5 Way You Work 5 / 5
Senior Validation Engineer

What do you like about working at Intel?

"Learn latest technology in industry. Ability to grow quickly. Work with highly intelligent and driven people."

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

"Negotiate your compensation package. Ask questions during the interview to understand the culture of the group you would work in. Is it focused on results What does the hiring manager value in their employees Does this match that of the organizational values In the right group you will have an awesome job experience. Very high expectations for quality of work but you will be rewarded for it early in your career."

What don't you like about working at Intel?

"unrealistic expectations of key contributors. small percentage of peers actually contribute to resolving key issues. a lot of similarly compensated peers do little work."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Recognize our best engineers who deliver amazing results with higher pay. Realize engineers are the key to the companies success and burning out great engineers is a reality. Cannot simply work them to burn out and replace with recent college graduates and get same amazing results."

Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 1 / 5 Work Setting 2 / 5
Support You Get 4 / 5 Rewards You Receive 4 / 5 Growth Opportunities 2 / 5
Company Culture 4 / 5 Way You Work 5 / 5
Manufacturing Technician

"Intel is a great company"

What do you like about working at Intel?

"I was able to grow and move up and they company helped me if I needed it."

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

"be honest don't try to lie your way through the interview they will have you show that you can do what you say you can."

What don't you like about working at Intel?

"that once you got hired the company didn't do anymore drug test except for the one drug test to get into the company. I thought that with all the chemicals and other electrical that people work with that they would do spot checking."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"be consistent from one direct to another. your directs are all the same different grade levels but same."

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 5 / 5
Company Culture 5 / 5 Way You Work 5 / 5
Software Developer

"Proof of Concept realization"

What do you like about working at Intel?

"Its great and everything is in house. There are a lot of benefits, Its a stable company"

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

"Make sure you know your stuff and be prepared to prove it."

What don't you like about working at Intel?

"There is a lot of corporate politics. There is a lot of competition within the company"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"The management is doing a great job and I have no suggestions."

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 5 / 5
Company Culture 5 / 5 Way You Work 5 / 5
Senior Software Development Manager

What do you like about working at Intel?

"The company makes decisions at Internet speeds and has billions of capital to back them up."

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

"Make sure you are ready for the most intense ride of you life. The money is fabulous, but the stress I greater."

What don't you like about working at Intel?

"The philosophy of Only the paranoid survive created an aggravated society of cutthrought competition and ranking and rating processes that were demotivating after a while. Great was good the next year and failing the year after."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Make people as important as patents and production beat rates."

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

"excellent work environment as a contractor ; not so much as a full time employee"

What do you like about working at Intel?

"challenging work; great people to work with; good set of tools"

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

"learn the Intel culture from their Web site and talking to employees"

What don't you like about working at Intel?

"too much organizational thrash resulting in frequent moves to new groups and consequent loss of work flow"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"stabilize the organization; stabilize the organization; not so many meetings!"

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

What do you like about working at Intel?

"Data-driven decision-making, products are of global importance, systematic performance reviews, strong funding for R&D"

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

"Take the interviewers seriously, even if you think they're junior to you."

What don't you like about working at Intel?

"Design inertia (company can embrace risk on one hand and fear it on the other), methodology infighting (groups all agree that sharing is important, but they always want it to be outbound)."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Drive data and methodology sharing from the top, both philosophically and organizationally."

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

"Short duration, different domain, great work environment."

What do you like about working at Intel?

"I really liked the impact Intel's products had. The benefits and flexible working environment were also good factors."

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

"Its a good place to work at as long as you can find the right team to work at. There are a lot of domains and variety in work is possible there."

What don't you like about working at Intel?

"Being a huge organization, small things sometimes took a longer time to get done. Communication channels were long."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Teams should have a clearer view of their responsibilities. This avoids unnecessary delay in problem solving."

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

"Great learning Curve and learn lots of new echnologies"

What do you like about working at Intel?

"Innovative CultureLatest TechnologiesNew Challenge Daily from Real WorldGreat Work CultreBenifits"

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

"Prepare well for technical rounds. Worth Company to start career"

What don't you like about working at Intel?

"All were helpful,I liked most of thingsNothing really to comment hear"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Provide opportunities with mentors for new hires to learn new technologies"

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 5 / 5
Senior Systems Engineer

"Fantastic - amazing company."

What do you like about working at Intel?

"Respect and professionalism. Intel was a great experience. Pay was good."

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

"Start young and you will get a wealth of knowledge and experience."

What don't you like about working at Intel?

"Company is too big and impersonal at times. It is difficult to get recognized."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Respect years of service more highly. Keep up the good work with respect to earnings."

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 5 / 5
Technical Marketing Engineer

"Developed deep technical knowledge with Intel Products"

What do you like about working at Intel?

"Intel was extremely Growth Oriented, Innovative, and result oriented company"

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

"Intel is one of the most stable company. It is extremely process oriented which develops you as a professional."

What don't you like about working at Intel?

"Sometimes we were far behind in the food chain and didn't really see the complete picture of end solution"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Keep focus on the innovation and enhance employee skills and development"

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 5 / 5
Company Culture 5 / 5 Way You Work 4 / 5
Validation Engineer

What do you like about working at Intel?

"technology centric - driven, goal oriented company good for professional sill growth"

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

"its a technology driven company so technical skills have to be excellent"

What don't you like about working at Intel?

"too involved , not much social attention , work should be mixed with good relationships between colleagues"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"professionalism is very much more then personal values, which keeps distance between people"

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

"Design of high volume Dell server enclosures and mechanisms"

What do you like about working at Intel?

"I completely lost interest in working for Intel. I'm at a loss to thinking of anything tht I liked about Intel, with the exception of the paycheck."

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

"If you're interested in sailing on a ship that is able to make turns safely in the gulf of Mexico area, then this is the nimble company for you."

What don't you like about working at Intel?

"Very short sighted vision. Shoot from the hip managment. Gross hypocracy."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Read the Intel badge, lead by example and promote the Intel Values."

Person You Work For 3 / 5 People You Work With 3 / 5 Work Setting 4 / 5
Support You Get 2 / 5 Rewards You Receive 2 / 5 Growth Opportunities 2 / 5
Company Culture 3 / 5 Way You Work 1 / 5

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