Intel Corporation reviews

Bureaucracy, people are hesitant to change, the attitudes among the people who have worked at the company for a while. Intel is a company that gets stuck in it's old ways and often passes up new opportunities just to maintain the status quo.

Cost cutting is becoming too aggressive for a company that makes billions of profit. This does not help the company's long-term future and (therefore) not the stock price either. Company is very large and "top-down". Communication and the flow of ideas goes only one way from the top to the bottom. Ideas of young bright people are not taken seriously because these people rank too low in the hierarchy. This is probably a general big-company problem, but Intel is suprisingly poor in mitigating it. HR department appears to be not on par with that of other comparable high-tech companies. Employees are regarded as an exchangeable commodity. Talent, creativity, and interests do not really matter, because these are soft factors that are not measurable in metrics. If top people leave, just hire a recent college graduate. In high-tech research and development, this thinking hurts.