AMD Reviews

Pros

Highly competieive. Relaitively good pay. Have some facilitity.

Cons

Bad management. Selfish supervisor. Office politic at work.

Advice to Senior Management

Review what the supervisor really is doing.

Pros

Coworkers were smart and dedicated to problem solving and resolving issues, and attempting to come up with solutions to common problems.

Cons

Management was terrible at working with, and listening to the people that worked for them. They had their own agenda which included only themselves, and how much of a bonus they can pull for themselves at the expense of others.

Advice to Senior Management

Start listening to your employees. Treat them fairly and with respect. Work with other teams in a fluid manner, and stop butting heads with the other teams that make the orginizaton work. It takes effort from everyone to make the company work. Not just your convoluted ideas that you think might work so you can get a bigger bonus. Stop taking everything as a personal attack when something does not go your way.

Pros

People in the tranches with you are brilliant. The only thing coming to work for.

Cons

Pay abysmal, comparatively speaking. Bottom line is more important than quality work. Management only concerned about looking good. No career path. No hope to advance. Kill or be killed mentality.

Advice to Senior Management

Get off the "2 Bobs" mentality and recognize how lucky you are to have employees that really care about the success of the company. They're frustrated with you, not because they go unrecognized, which they do, but because you aren't listening to their ideas on how to make AMD more successful.

Pros

Day to day work environment is professional and respectful.

Cons

Can be a 24 hour a day job at times with no appreciation for the extra efforts required. Company is up and down financially and subject to sweeping changes and high turnover.

Advice to Senior Management

Stabilize your vision and communicate it more effectively.

Pros

The only other x86 company; some very good people to work with. A place to change the industry with enough focus

Cons

lack of resources for projects, misapplied resources, lack of focus, multi-site projects. Need better focused management that realized the need for concentrated focus on the pc market and not chase after niches. goal needs to be to take %'s away from intel.

Advice to Senior Management

AMD needs to realize that it is a single product company (x86 cpu's) and focus on that to the exclusion of all else,

Pros

People here are really VERY friendly
Chance to learn technical issues
Open environment that fosters innovation

Cons

Management's focus is unclear
Too independent
No direction given and must seek a direction without much guidance sometimes
Very reactive

Advice to Senior Management

Need to plan ahead

Pros

normal work stress, good working culture

Cons

workplace welfare need improve, also product management

Pros

Can involve in the core engineering projects rather than "supports", compared with other similar high-tech companies in China.

Cons

Compensation package is lower than other companies at the same reputation level;
Promotion generally depends on your performance, but "political" factors are also very important. And sometimes fast promotion is prohibited by the top line management, but sometimes it's just OK, that's unfair.

Advice to Senior Management

N/A

Pros

Its a job that pays some of the bills.

Cons

There is no room for advancement. All previous additional benefits (stocks, bonuses, etc...) no longer apply to my position after merging with AMD. Absolutely, no pay increase since the merger.

Pros

Great pay compared to other companies!
Flexible schedule most of the time!
Good benefits!

Cons

Tired of explaining who AMD is to others!
Tired of barely earning a profit or losing money every quarter!

Advice to Senior Management

Let's stop being reactive and start being proactive! We don't have to ride Intel's coat tails anymore!