Venting a bit here regarding raises and promotions - both are abhorrently inconsistent. What I see nowadays is that new hires often start at higher salary than people working there for many years. Now, add to that all the perks that keep disappearing (e.g., GPTW, chip loaners, etc. ) and deterioration of benefits, nobody at Intel should be happy with this. Finally, it's so messy in the executive ranks that people simply do not have trust that the current line up can lead us into the next decade.
This is bad.