Pros

Professional work environment with adequate resources provided to complete a project.

Cons

Sometimes the environment is very political. Bonus compensation can be unrelated to work performed. Achievements not recognized.

Advice to Senior Management

Recognize achievement and use compensation to motivate achievement.

Pros

AMD's PEO does offer the ability to work on what you like within your team. The people here are great to work with.

Cons

To get anywhere in PEO, you need to fit into one of two rolls; be on a high profile project or work harder than your peers to be compensated the same.

Advice to Senior Management

I would let AMD's leadership know that they need to look at who is earning their money. Take care of your talent, treat them well or you will always be second to Intel.

Pros

Competitive salaries for the industry
Excellent new campus in southwest Austin
Leading edge technology and design methodologies
Fast paced work environment

Cons

Few prospects for career growth. None beyond director level.
Nonexistent merit raises in several years but apparently plenty of money to hire new VP's
Corporate politics play a role in almost every decision.

Advice to Senior Management

Recognize that the real problems with AMD are organizational and have nothing to do with individual contributor execution. AMD's internal structure is disfunctional and continues to limit it's potential.

Pros

If you know what you are doing you will do well.
Benefits are above average. Profit Sharing is nice when it's available.
Pay is above normal for high achievers.
Flex work, relaxed atmosphere (like more silcon valley companies)

Cons

Usually means longer hours necessary
Unsteady company finances means ups and downs regular in a couple years time
It's a perenial underdog (this is usally a plus for those working there)

Advice to Senior Management

Bring together design centers. Me vs Them sometimes in discussions.
Determine future strategy and don't waste time reconsidering projects.
Keep talented engineers.

Pros

Challenging place to work. Lots of innovation. Stressful (in a good way) work place.

Cons

Requires strong leadership. Competitve compensation. Mangement needs to take adequate risk.

Advice to Senior Management

Take adeqate risk. Tackling all market segments with limited resources will result in not getting slice of any market. FOCUS.

Pros

- Interesting technologies to work with
- Enough bright people to learn from
- Reasonable compensation and benefits
- Flexible hours

Cons

- Lack of communication and information to perform your work
- Incompetent management (middle and upper level)
- Long hours and weekends

Advice to Senior Management

Not much, since they are unable to listen and learn so the inefficiencies and wasted work will continue any way.

Pros

The company culture is very relaxed and the people I met there were great. They made me comfortable and allowed me sufficient time to ease into my first real internship.

Cons

Worked around the time of the massive layoffs, so my group fell apart and that limited my support system.

Advice to Senior Management

Be a little bit more involved and offer more feedback; I didn't receive much feedback during my stay.

Pros

- co-workers are fairly good
- there is a degree of openness to sharing knowledge among colleagues
- flexible work time

Cons

- felt like there were too many managers and not enough workers
- upper management not in synch with employees
- management do not communicate effectively

Advice to Senior Management

- make the structure less vertical
- there seems to be managers for everything who need to tell others what to do when there aren't enough people to get the work done

Pros

Good Company environment. Cafeteria is great. Employees are friendly. They give back to the community which is great. Nice buildings.

Cons

Left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing. Better communciation needed between departments and management. Everyone seems to be working on their own project.

Advice to Senior Management

You need to connect the dots. You need someone at the helm to see that the projects are related to each other and that they make sense.

Pros

Great opportunities to enhance career. Very helpful coworkers.

Cons

For some reason, people with bad attitudes are still around. They stand out because everyone has the same opinion about them. You would think they would have been laid off already, or at least been encouraged to shaped up.

Advice to Senior Management

Find better ways to measure performance