AMD Reviews

Former Employee – worked at AMD as an intern for less than a year

Pros – good technical exposure and teams are very experienced

Cons – did not get full time offer

Advice to Senior Management – none

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at AMD full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Love the Austin Area
Some very smart people to work with
In 2 duopolies (x86 + PC graphics) should yield lots of opportunities

Cons – Management by be-rating is common (the beatings will continue until morale improves)
Failed to be credible 2nd source to Intel in x86. Why would being a 2nd source in ARM help ?
Challenges with process and yields renders many plans moot

Advice to Senior Management – Focus more on the people. Now that AMD is fabless, people are one of the best assets
Develop managers and directors that grow employees
Encourage more cross-team and cross-function collaboration versus CYA behavior

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at AMD full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Relatively strong engineering team and good culture. Good place for fresh graduates to learn and pick up the skills.

Cons – Management needs to be improved. Product Road map should be well set up and executed. There were too many projects cancelled and that's a big waste.

Advice to Senior Management – Take the responsibility of leading the organization and the products development.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at AMD full-time

Pros – It was a great company with a ton of smart people... initially

Cons – Slowly swirling down the drain

Advice to Senior Management – Pay your employees instead of yourselves.... the top tier talent is fleeing the company due to lack of competitive salaries... everyone in the city is paying more for engineers than AMD

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at AMD full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Great work environment, excellent facilities, I get recognition for good work and performance, good work / life balance, good work culture, well respected company (at least once was).

Cons – IT infrastructure not maintained, poor job stability, company growth is minimal if not absent, salary growth is slow, bonuses are not great, senior management makes poor decisions, lots of layoffs affecting critical resources.

Advice to Senior Management – Please stop getting rid of critical employees! We are stretched thin as is, and you continue getting rid of all of the people that matter, we will never catch up to the competition.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at AMD full-time for more than a year

Pros – -Opportunity to work on cutting edge technology.
- Very knowledgable co-workers.
-Well managed projects.
-Company finally turning around and focusing on execution.

Cons – -Cash position not very good for turnaround.
- Too many layoffs in the past two years.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at AMD

Pros – Great work life balance. Slackers and politically correct folks can get paid for doing nothing.

Cons – Many bad managers that are ready to throw their resources under the bus. No focus on training or career development. Your manager will try to supress your growth to save his/her job. Redundancies in processes across organization.

Advice to Senior Management – Focus on hiring and retaining intelligent and driven folks. Lay off old timers who take fat salaries and are rigid to change.

Current Employee – been working at AMD full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – you do get to see a lot of different part of the design
you have a lot of freedom to try different things one you have proved yourself
most of the engineers are awesome

Cons – management is not really on top of their game; many miss steps over the last 5-6 years

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at AMD full-time for more than a year

Pros – none really, unless you are looking for an H1B visa which they will use to lock you in

Cons – management has no clue where to go and is in cost cutting everything mode. Most benefits are gone

Advice to Senior Management – value your people more, without them there is no company
share the pain

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at AMD full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – There were some very smart people to work with and learn from when i started at AMD

Cons – All the good people left and we started hiring big names who came there because they did something in their previous job. Gave them large salaries, big positions and took all motivation away from them to work and prove something anymore ..

Advice to Senior Management – Stop hiring names and look for people who are motivated to build something instead of hiring people who want to tell people what to build ..

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company