AMD Reviews

Pros

good information sharing within the company mostly

Cons

not a lot of opportunities to move up

Advice to Senior Management

get a real vision

Pros

Employee benefits are a plus. Vacation and PPA time are still generous.

Cons

Lack of any upward mobility. Zero benefit for going above and beyond. Management is one tracked on their bonus plan.

Advice to Senior Management

Take care of your people. As of late, AMD has shifted to pushing down work, even doubling up on workloads. Burnout rate is high and they take advantage of the market condition.

Pros

- Good place to learn
- Relaxing place

Cons

- Does not take a good care of employee well being.
- ignoring employee benefit
- office politics
- favoritism by manager

Advice to Senior Management

- value your staff by their skill not how they talk.

Pros

Good brand name
Most people are nice and friendly.
Have some good products.
Pay is ok.

Cons

Very political top to bottom
Management doesn't respect employees
No recognition to good work
Not treat everyone the same. Some people get promoted because they are good friends with management.

Advice to Senior Management

New CEO must overhaul his leadership team

Pros

Decent salary
Nice location
Innovative technology
Work environment is pleasant
Office is modern and clean

Cons

Management afraid of IT when it comes to promoting new tools and making changes to better ones
Consultants hired for expertise and then they don't implement their design
Some teams very cold and clinical, not enough collaboration and open feedback

Advice to Senior Management

Listen to people who just might be smarter than you
Become Agile
Try open source tools instead of standard Microsoft software

Pros

Good Opportunities and cutting edge technology.
You work on latest technology and the cut throat competition drives the innovation..

Cons

They can be better in Salary

Pros

There is nothing good about working at AMD other than you get a salary to pay for your bills every month.

Cons

Once upon a time I was a very enthusiastic engineer until I spent a few years working for AMD. Working at AMD will destroy you, things here are done terrible, starting for upper management all the way down to engineer level.
There is a lot of politics, a lot of management decisions are taken without even considering or asking engineers about the technical side.
Most of the teams are very bad, managers have ZERO management skills, everyone knows that things are wrong but at the same time, they know that things wont change.
There is an unbelievable LACK of responsibility and ownership. All the time the projects are behind, there is no clear schedules, a lot of cross-site work with Shanghai, India and multiple sites in US, decision making is very slow.
People is not recognize for your work, unless you are very very friend of your boss, they will recognize it, because managers are SO SO BAD, that they dont even know what their employees are doing.
In summary, this is a nightmare, please stay away from AMD if you can, if you are already working for AMD, wake up! and switch to another company before it is too late.

Advice to Senior Management

fire yourself, you guys are terrible to work for, there is so many things to be changed at AMD, that it is impossible to imagine the company doing well.

Pros

work with very good talented people

Cons

too much consensus driven culture

Advice to Senior Management

decide and act quickly

Pros

AMD has many good, smart people. Most people at AMD are energetic, focused, and genuinely strive towards the best interests of the company.

Cons

AMD is still growing. It lacks some of the infrastructure required for a company of it's size to run efficiently. As with any company, there are still some people and groups that internally behave with a protectionist, zero-sum-game mentality, but they are in the minority.

Advice to Senior Management

Reduce our focus on 365 tape out to production time line. Focus more on consistent and predictable delivery for customres.

Pros

because of work culture and working with smart people

Cons

product roadmap is changing which causes some concern

Advice to Senior Management

i think they are doing a good job given the current state of semiconductor industry