AMD Reviews in Austin, TX Area

Pros

Smart people to work with; opportunities to make a difference; reasonable compensation; many different departments allow you to change the work that you wish to do.

Cons

1. workflow needs to improve
2. should focus more on the mobile and client side
3. more research stress required for innovations

Pros

Great People
Access to enterprise technology
Opportunity to grow and learn for those who want it.
Challenging problems and issues to solve.

Cons

Not all the challenges are technical...
The pace can change quickly and with muddled direction from management.
Salary not on par with the industry.

Advice to Senior Management

Make an effort to keep your top performers and don't be afraid to pay them.

Pros

Can learn a lot. For a beginner not a bad firm. But do not stay longer than 3 years

Cons

pay/bonus is bad. So not so pleasant

Advice to Senior Management

None

Pros

Good work environment. Good salary. Innovative work

Cons

Work load is high. should be reduced

Advice to Senior Management

Should be allowed to work on different technology

Pros

- A great way to get your feet wet for beginner and understanding of semiconductor industry.
- There're some up and down time of the work cycle.

Cons

- Don't find much opportunity for personal improvement and career path
- Work could be repetitive and boring after a short while
- The computer/ microprocessor market is extremely tough these days. Company is struggling to survive.

Advice to Senior Management

Need to work on your vision and organization. Please think more about what could have done to make employees happier and have stronger faith in the company vision.

Pros

- Good pay
- Good benefits
- A very nice campus in Austin
- Used to have a good management team in place
- Used to have a lot of good people to work with

Cons

- Changes in Business Models due to upper management changes made it very difficult to stay focused
- When new management came in in 2008, they brought in many, many people from their previous company and got rid of the original AMD'ers. This completely changed the culture and made working their not as enjoyable as it once was.
- With management changes, IT organization became too top heavy with too many VP's, Directors, and Managers so there were too many people telling people to work and not enough people to do the work.

Advice to Senior Management

Within the IT organization, there are way too many VP's/Directors/Managers. This needs to be corrected. With Rory Read coming in, he appears to be addressing this so this may change in the very near future.

Pros

large tech company in austin

Cons

struggling as the economy went down

Pros

Good location, good networking, friendly people. Very nice people to work with and a lot of cool processes and technologies to work with.

Cons

Disorganized teams, understaffed, bad quick and dirty solutions to things, not alot of innovation happening in the team I was working in. Poor relocation services

Advice to Senior Management

Not alot of people on the small teams are seeing the bigger picture at AMD. Most of the people are just doing the work to get it done, not very nurturing for an internship experience...

Pros

AMD is a strong company, now that there is a CEO in place. The technical compentency of the IT team was unsurpassed. I loved the people there, and I made a mistake by leaving.

Cons

Because of the lack of executive leadership, it was difficult for decisions to be made and communicated.

Pros

Working with Smart people and good learning environment

Cons

Don't follow enough process for Software tool development