AMD Reviews

Pros

Great place to learn and build upon a career. Nice environment which is relatively stress-free. Friendly people all around, good information sharing.

Cons

Uncertainty and confusion in the future direction of the company. Benefits and compensation are not very competitive. Lack of communication from top management.

Advice to Senior Management

Show more effort in recognizing and retaining top talent. Needs to engage and reassure employees that things will get better.

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

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

Workers can receive relatively good salary and also learn lot of things like how to grow up the business in given field.

Cons

1: Very unstable business in terms of finance. 2: Lack of direction from management side. 3: The strategies are often just imitation of the competitor.

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

If the Production Manufactory still remain in Singapore , Its a good place to work for those who like not stress Job entironment ;

Cons

The chance of promotion not really base on your work performance ;

Pros

Great graphics engine, good integration on silicon, diversity, fast paced environment, both IDM and fabless models under same roof and great locations.

Cons

Poor standards and process guidelines, quite confused top management, double standards among diferent divisions, some political prejudice, benefits are not great.

Advice to Senior Management

Layout standards and processes very clearly as not to change on the fly, be proactive and great visionary for roadmap, answer investors with clear achievements and accept failures.

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

They have a great product.

Cons

It's an Engineering environment and everyone else is second.

Advice to Senior Management

Look more at how much time and passion your employees bring to their roles; don't just review them as a number.

Pros

good quality emplogyee and with sharp focus

Cons

work stress is high and management uncertainties

Advice to Senior Management

should explore more product options, widen the product portfolio.