Pros

Great work culture and opportunities

Kontras

Macroeconomic headwinds affect the current status

Pros

Intel handled the pandemic amazingly, work from home options were easy to setup (unless you're a technician), employees felt very supported and secure.

Kontras

*****Intel has a strong work culture of being paranoid***** that consistently works against it. Intel HR policies and management promotes this culture of paranoia in every employee of Intel. There is too much overthinking on plans that never happen to the point where questioning a project seems irrelevant. The attitude towards customers and competitors is often arrogant. Pre-pandemic, the culture remained reliant on cube culture and no one dared to pack up to leave before 5pm. Post pandemic the cube culture has dissipated BUT management is increasingly trying to get employees back in office by passive aggressive actions such as holding on-site only meetings. There's very little comradery within departments, and this has a disheartening effect on employees over time. Work culture is confrontational and harsh. Lots of pressure on engineers to solve problems with very little training. The work pace is fast and high stress. It's mostly an ethnocentric workforce which is great for diversity but ultimately hurts culture through the social cliques it forms and creates massive divides within groups. You are pitted against your team members as there is a culture of usurping your colleagues' work - expectation of attending meetings at ridiculous hours - some of the worst managers I ever had. Do better Intel.