thomas rodrian

Review of Intel

I started working for Intel Corp as a contractor. ...

I started working for Intel Corp as a contractor. After four years of contracting I converted to an employee. I loved contracting: come in and write code all day, and then go home. As an employee, I traveled over 90% of the time. In my 11 years at Intel, I travel over 1 million miles. Not everything as an employee was bad though, but it was hard to see the good when you re always dead tired.

My team worked out of Portland, Folsom, Chandler, Ocotillo, Malaysia, India, Japan, Philippines, and South Korea. My primary office was in Santa Clara. Somedays, I flew to Phoenix for meetings in the morning, flew back to San Jose, and then drove to Folsom for more meetings that night. Meeting with the non-USA team members usually occurred in Santa Clara, but I did go to Japan and Manilla too.