{"id":3355,"date":"2012-07-13T15:26:17","date_gmt":"2012-07-13T22:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ups.edu\/studentlife\/?p=3355"},"modified":"2012-07-13T15:26:17","modified_gmt":"2012-07-13T22:26:17","slug":"who-says-corporate-culture-is-cold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/studentlife\/2012\/07\/13\/who-says-corporate-culture-is-cold\/","title":{"rendered":"Who says corporate culture is cold?"},"content":{"rendered":"

So as promised this post is going to be about the fun stuff about working at Intel\u00ae, and by fun stuff I mean the corporate culture and climate. For you non-business majors corporate culture is basically the mission and values and such of a company. The climate of a workplace is how the workers percieve their work environment.<\/p>\n

So first let me talk about the corporate culture here, in my perception, if you are really interested in mission and vision statements you can look those up on intel.com. So I think intel is VERY service oriented. They have something called Intel Involved\u00ae which is a program that encourages Intel\u00ae employees to volunteer.<\/p>\n

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Today I got Intel\u00ae Involved by volunteering an hour of my time to speak with students from the Riodran Scholar Program about the transition from high school to college to work. It was a ton of fun, the kids asked me great questions, like whether marketing is a stable career ( gosh I don’t know!?) and how I landed my internship\u00a0 (networking and an incredible amount of luck).<\/p>\n

I did some research on the Riordan program and learned that it is supported by UCLA’s Anderson School of Management, how cool is that? I think that would be a nice thing for our Business Leadership\u00a0program at Puget Sound to try too! So what I gathered was that these students, from the Riordan\u00a0get to visit different colleges, and companies and then go to dinner to talk about their experiences. Because these students are underprivildged they may not otherwise get the opportunity to visit colleges and learn about the different opportunities they have. I think it was an hour well spent!\u00a0<\/p>\n

Now lets talk about Intel\u00ae climate.\u00a0One of the first things I noticed about Intel\u00ae was that their is no differentiation in terms\u00a0of\u00a0rank. I can go to anyone, my manager, my managers manager, or the head manager for help. We even all sit in exactly the same size cubicles, no corner offices, although I suspect those who have been here a while get a nice window cubicle. Another awesome thing about working here, well awesome for me anyway, is that I can wear whatever I like, for example, today I’m wearing\u00a0a very sparkly blue\u00a0sweater and purple alligator skin heels.\u00a0People show up in anything from super formal suit and tie\u00a0to ultra casual\u00a0shorts and Hawaiian shirts. I have given myself a rule to wear semi-casual colorful clothes and dress up for days I have meetings.<\/p>\n

Some cool stuff for interns here is cookie time on Friday afternoons where they give us free cookies, ( for those of us health inclined, everyone, including non-interns, gets free fruit). Today they apparently forgot to put out cookies,\u00a0 people are in a rush since there might be a power outage at 4,\u00a0so my inbox is filled with interns complaining, haha. Another nice thing Intel\u00ae has for the Interns is our own blog site, where people post things like sign up sheets for skydiving trips, end of the summer trips to Great America Theme Park\u00a0and ask for volunteers to help with data research. I myself posted a survey recently about movie watching preferences for people aged 14-24. Which by the way I am going to post here, so you all can check it out and maybe help me with research ( and possibly win 25 dollars).<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.surveymonkey.com\/s\/DRLQB6K<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n

Overall I can see why our company is often noted as a great place to work.\u00a0 Oh and I found a picture online of my building!<\/p>\n

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