AMD Reviews

Pros

Good opportunities to make a difference. Most employees are competant or better. Flexible hours and work schedule. On campus gym.

Cons

High employee turnover. Management leads by consensus. Most of the people responsible for past success are long gone. IBM managers are invading, trying to harness the culture 2005 that is also long gone.

Advice to Senior Management

Protect and attack is a flawed strategy. Sometimes you have to lead with the chin to be the first to sieze opportunity in the marketplace. Sometimes you have to go "all in" when you see the opportunity and the opponent is not there to fight back. Protect and attack is a low-risk play, and with most things in the marketplace the higher the risk the higher the payout. Take the reigns, make the hard calls, and drive the company hard. It's what Jobs would have done.

Pros

Flexible hours, above average pay.

Cons

Lack of mobility, horrible software development process

Pros

Great products, positive outlook, wonderful feeling when the underdog beats the Goliath from time to time.

Cons

Under-dog and a perennial second feeling.

Pros

resources - great people - great technology -

Cons

review process needs to work better

Advice to Senior Management

disconnect performance and ranking -

Pros

Good place to work. nothing more to say

Cons

No growth potential will let your work at the same level forever

Advice to Senior Management

None at this time

Pros

decent salary
good benefits
flexible work hours
very nice people

Cons

slow promotion
constantly struggling in the industry

Advice to Senior Management

Find the right direction for AMD and invest more in people

Pros

Friendly colleagues, supportive bosses... (depending on team) Generally work life balance is achievable if planning is adequate.

Cons

Knowledge sharing and know-how might not be adequately shared. Fresh entry engineers might feel it hard to keep up...
Promotion and performace rating is hardly based on actual work performance and diligence. Rather it is based on relationship with senior management.

Advice to Senior Management

Empower your employees to take on responsibility and not micromanage.... be fair to the people who work hard and contribute; and not to reward the people who "talk the talks" but never take actions to "walk the talk"

Pros

Flexible work hours, reasonable pay

Cons

Bad marketing, not widely known company

Pros

People in AMD are downright good hearted people with brilliant minds.
I never ever felt I have to always watch my back. I had not met a Micro Manager here. Takes forever to hire (I've put in so many long hours) but they know to hire those who they can trust.
Very flexible so long am at work at 10am. I have to take kids to day care. Mgt understands parent duties very strongly.
Management encourages use of vacation/time off.

Cons

Promotions take forever. You know other companies are always eyeing AMD people so one's always fighting the thought of moving or staying.
Constant change in leadership

Advice to Senior Management

Don't overlook your current employees. Promote as fairly. We are happy when there's a new engineer in the team. Next things we check is the title they were hired into.

Pros

-Flexible hours (core hours between 10am and 4pm, you can come in early to leave at 4, or come in at 10 to leave late.
-Great benefits (full-time get 90% dental - max $2,000, full drug, full massage, physio, chiro, orthotics, etc - max $500 each)
-Very friendly.
-Great place to learn.

Cons

-Located in Markham (horrible traffic).
-Small percentage of women.