Engineers at Intel

godtabh

What kind of engineers do the employee in Intel other than the obvious computer/electronic based engineers?

I cant seem to see any information on it on their website

LeperKing

Manufacturing, industrial, chemical off the top of my head.

LK

godtabh

What about civil?

Pablo

AFAIK

• Electronic & Microelectronic : for production
• Civil (for building & services & planning)
• Mechanical (for service, for machinery)
• Electrical (for services, power plant etc)

This is for the plant in Leixlip.

• Electronic & Microelectronic : for design

This is for Shannon.
more : http://www.intel.com/jobs/Ireland/index.htm

hth,
pablo

LeperKing

I'm not familar enough with civil to know. There are very few things at Intel that are taught outside Intel in college. (i.e. recent grads have so much to learn in the first 6 months before they become anyway useful). So if you say that a civil eng degree shows your ability to learn and apply technical information then you might get a job in a 'related' technical position.

LK

I've heard rumours of people with biology degrees working here.

godtabh

Pablo wrote:

[*]Civil (for building & services & planning)

This is for the plant in Leixlip.



more : http://www.intel.com/jobs/Ireland/index.htm

This is what I'm interested in. Couldnt find that page myself. Now to check out if there is any jobs¬!

Pablo

You're welcome, it was the 2nd link from googling 'intel ireland' the info is from my experience with people I know who work there.

godtabh

Pablo wrote:

You're welcome, it was the 2nd link from googling 'intel ireland' the info is from my experience with people I know who work there.

The intel website doesnt provide much info on jobs that I could see & google couldnt tell me what kind of engineers there was there so I just sent off an email

zuutroy

A bit of advice: keep Intel as your absolute last "I'm hungry and homeless" resort as a place to work as an engineer. It's thoroughly miserable, I barely managed 10 months there before I just quit (with no job lined up), and would seriously go hungry than ever go back. So many dickheads, such a horrible atmosphere, people volunarilty doing 20 hours unpaid overtime a week. Just thinking about it makes me miserable.
Pays good though

mal1

zuutroy wrote:

A bit of advice: keep Intel as your absolute last "I'm hungry and homeless" resort as a place to work as an engineer. It's thoroughly miserable, I barely managed 10 months there before I just quit (with no job lined up), and would seriously go hungry than ever go back. So many dickheads, such a horrible atmosphere, people volunarilty doing 20 hours unpaid overtime a week. Just thinking about it makes me miserable.
Pays good though

Sounds like every engineering job I have ever worked except the wages part. Let’s be fair, Intel is a big employer with many different departments/managers/types of jobs etc. I wouldn’t make any decision based on one experience. You might be find the odd engineer out there who actually loves working in Intel. I know a number of them

zuutroy

mal1 wrote:

I wouldn’t make any decision based on one experience

Everyone will tell you that thats there experience, its just that some people can handle it well, and others think its normal and healthy! I used to chuckle about people who had pictures of their kids in their cube and yet were still working at 8pm.

mal1 wrote:

You might be find the odd engineer out there who actually loves working in Intel. I know a number of them

In my experience I'd say about 30% tolerated it because they had to (better people thant me) and were still a bit of a laugh. 60% were 'broken down' distributed equally between as thoroughly miserable, or totally institutionalised power hungry mentalists. The last 10% were just weirdos who liked working there from the start.

mal1

Well my girlfriend is an engineer in Intel. I just hope that she isn’t in that last 10%.

zuutroy

mal1 wrote:

Well my girlfriend is an engineer in Intel. I just hope that she isn’t in that last 10%.

lol!....dont mind me anyway....I just had a **** time there so I'm super biased, but I'm sure you know theres some truth to what I'm saying if someone close to you works there

TheDriver

didn't mind it there myself few years back but lots of meetings/procedures etc etc

LeperKing

I think there's about a 50/50 divide between good managers and bad managers, from my personal experience. If you like the manager at the interview then you're on to a good start. Just make sure you meet your potential manager!

LK

leeroybrown

Intel (Lexilip) do hire Civil engineers but I would say that they are definitely in the minority. Intel's plant in Leixlip is a manufacturing plant so the vast majority of engineering jobs require skills that come more readily from industrial, process, mechanical and electronic engineering, with quite a few jobs for perople from an IT background in the various manufacturing support areas. Also, unless things have changed Intel tend to outsource functions not directly related to manufacturing or the support of manufacturing.

As was pointed out above quite a few people tend to dislike Intel's corporate culture and the quality of experience you have depends hugely on what department you are in and who you work for. I reckon that a lot of people stay there solely because of the fairly decent money and the good job security. I worked there for just under a year and wouldn't go back because I reckon I'd get stuck in another boring half arsed job mired down in delays and administrative hassle. I'd guess I'm not what they'd describe as 'an Intel man'...

Tom Dunne

zuutroy wrote:

In my experience I'd say about 30% tolerated it because they had to (better people thant me) and were still a bit of a laugh. 60% were 'broken down' distributed equally between as thoroughly miserable, or totally institutionalised power hungry mentalists. The last 10% were just weirdos who liked working there from the start.

Brilliant, just brilliant.

That nicely sums it up.

kearnsr wrote:

The intel website doesnt provide much info on jobs that I could see & google couldnt tell me what kind of engineers there was there so I just sent off an email

Ah, God bless your innocence. Do you really think someone is going to answer? One thing that struck me when I left (after a loooong time at the company) was how impersonalised it has become. I didn't see one HR person before I left, I had a brief venting session with the department manager and my own immediate manager was on holidays the week I was leaving.

So I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for an answer.

As for hiring civil engineers, my own personal opinion is that they will hire any type of engineer, but it's more a type of person they are looking for (easily malleable). I don't think they have much call for civil engineers, though, especially since they are not actively building at the moment. And, as leeroybrown said, most of non-production related stuff is contracted out.

amen

don't forget that Intels core business is chip manufacturing and desing.
They employ a lost of physics graduates from degree->master->phds.
After all they design/improve the processes the make Intel is money.

zuutroy

No design in Leixlip. It's all manufacturing and manufacturing support

leeroybrown

amen wrote:

don't forget that Intels core business is chip manufacturing and desing.
They employ a lost of physics graduates from degree->master->phds.
After all they design/improve the processes the make Intel is money.

I'm going to continue with the assumption that by Intel the OP specifically means Intel Ireland. As zuutroy points out above Intel's plant in Leixlip is purely a manufacturing plant. Absolutely no IC design takes place there. The manufacturing processes that are performed there will all already have been developed in another test fab and are copied not innovated on. There are people with Ph.D's in physics, semiconductors and material science employed in Leixlip but their focus is on quality control/measurement and production problem diagnosis.

Intel's plant in Shannon does IC design and driver development for communications chipsets so there are design jobs there.