Intel Corporation reviews

3.9

68% would recommend to a friend

(31,907 total reviews)
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43% positive business outlook

Intel Corporation has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 31,907 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Intel Corporation employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Informationstechnologie industry (3.9 stars).

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2.0
Jun 11, 2008
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Pros

One of the last and truly excellent manufacturing capable corporations in the US. Not that the automobile industry isn't a capable, just their leadership seems to be poor. Top level managers often seem to be well chosen for capability and smarts.

Cons

For all their emphasis on competitive ratings of employees, too often poor performers continually get promoted or protected. This is especially true at the mid-level management level where I've had to work for a good number of total incompetents. There's often an unfortunately high degree of belief that managers can be successful managing without any technical competence. This is fine if you are not in a technical group, but if you are, it's rather unfortunate for those unlucky enough to have to endure it.

2.0
Jun 11, 2008
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Pros

The pay is decent. There are some very challenging problems to be solved. Working on projects to solve them can provide very valuable experience. The in-house training is good.

Cons

Middle management became overstretched and (in the organization that I left) was not able to devote enough time to resolve issues with respect to project resources and staffing. The current move to reduce the work force through attrition makes job security non-existent. There is an rule that 10% of the people in each department get a negative performance review each year. Since Intel has started reducing its workforce, these negative reviews are getting handed out arbitrarily. Many project teams are dispersed with team members in India, Asia and the Americas, which leads to meetings during family hours. The company does not provide adequate tools to do a proper job. The compressed cubicles are not large enough to work effectively in. When I left Intel in 2007, I had a 4-year old laptop, a 10 MBit network connection. It took about 15 minutes each day to boot it up and connect to Intel's network.

4.0
Jun 11, 2008
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Pros

Intel was great with work/life balance. In such a big company this probably depends on your department, but in Materials it was excellent. I also liked the fact that there was a true "open door" policy where a person could talk to a manager several levels above them without negative backlash. In my current company if I were to do this my manager would not be happy, but at Intel I was encouraged to set up meetings with my manager's manager. Intel offers 2 months off with pay every 7 years to all FT employees. This is not a benefit you can cash in on very often but it is a fantastic benefit when it comes due!

Cons

I felt like the pay was only average. When I started looking at other jobs I felt like I could do better by going outside Intel than by staying. In the end I left the company and got more than a 20% pay increase.

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