Agreed with others, intel pay no longer competitive as there are many other better offers.
As for politics, I know many people talk big but cant do type and actually got away with it.
Some so called seniors pass their task that they dont know how to do, to junior and blame them when shit happens.
Highly suggest fresh grads to avoid intel unless you plan to stay there 5yr+ because you will do grunt work that are useless outside of intel.
Only Intel AMD uses x86 architecture, and other companies use ARM.
Better to join startup as you can build things from scratch and learn more industry wide knowledge.

Just my 2 cents.