AMD Reviews in Austin, TX Area

Pros

Salary compensation better than most
Some good people

Cons

Very siloed; no one knows what anyone else is doing
very political to the point of your day is 90% trying to protect your job and 10% actual work
Not alot of people there for the company, mostly there for themselves, including upper management

Advice to Senior Management

Change the structure; look around and see what's going on.

Pros

AMD has been very good to me. As with any company that doesn't dominate it's market resources can be limited in some groups but the commitment to sucess still thrives

Cons

As with any company that doesn't dominate it's market resources can be limited in some groups

Pros

There are some very capable technical people but there are just as many doing little and hanging on. Austin is more affordable than CA.

Cons

Software development is considered less valuable than hardware. There is a bit of a silo mentality which creates competition between teams that should be working together.

Advice to Senior Management

It seems that the board is clearing out the old guard and is making way to bring in people that will do better than just copy intel. But we will see...

Pros

AMD has some of the smartest and most dedicated people I have ever met working at it. Innovations and beyond the cutting edge technology can be found everywhere. Plenty of opportunity to move within the company. It is never the same day twice.

Cons

Understaffed aggressive plans lead to frustration and burn-out. Executive direction can be unfocused and often contradictory. Management often lacks the courage to say "no".

Pros

challenges, tasks, work place, co-workers

Cons

Over time almost everyday- till 9pm!!.. Bad manager feedback, until ofcourse year end review!

Advice to Senior Management

Be frank and open. Be clear in raod maps and cimmunication.

Pros

Great technology, clear roles and responsibilities.

Cons

Started getting very political, roadmap focus became shaky.

Advice to Senior Management

You are losing the value of good people, management has suffered.

Pros

There is chances for growth with alot of change. It you want to build a career, this is a good place to do it.

Cons

There are alot of changes and the pressure of the job sometimes is alot. Not a place for a slacker.

Advice to Senior Management

Fund the bonus pool at 200% so that everyone can get paid a great bnous this year that they are working hard.

Pros

The chance to work on some of the most advanced process and design technologies, very interesting prospects for APU, GPU, fusion products could make the next few years very exciting.

Cons

Long hours, very poor coordination between product, design, and test groups. Lack of ownership of unexpected problems leads to wasted effort, inefficient processes. The unexpected problems should be very expected, senior management doesn't appear to understand the negative impact of supporting such a diverse set of products with the same number of engineers that used to support a single product line. (Two fusion products, one dedicated CPU product, multiple GPU products, multiple foundries, new process development, new package development, etc.) Not enough people to go around, so most people end up doing too many different things at the same time, which leads to a questionable level of quality.

Advice to Senior Management

Stop trying to do so much. Stop targeting the industry average for employee compensation and then expecting to get the best and the brightest.

Pros

Good working environment, plenty technical resources, cutting edge products, global footprint, strong technical leaders.

Cons

a bit too manager heavy, new designs a bit late compared to competition, low profits leading to lower compensation. While manager heavy, management struggling with proper resource allocation with new products. Technology Process lacking requiring herculean engineering efforts to get products to market in timely fashion.

Advice to Senior Management

need more team collaboration between design and product test, need to roll out designs faster. Accelerate FAB process development

Pros

Good work enviornment and lot of things to learn.

Cons

small work groups and all are over loaded with work.