AMD Reviews

Pros

Great culture, respect for people.

Cons

High turnover, frequent restructuring and direction change.

Pros

Good work atmosphere, opportunities to move around company to a different position if you want, a lot of smart people, good balance of work/life allowed, ample vacation time, plenty of opportunities for learning and people willing to teach

Cons

As with any large company, changes can be bureaucratic when they should not be. Some things seem to be done certain ways just because they have always been done a certain way. Definitely not a small company or startup atmosphere.

Pros

Mostly good people. As with most companies, especially large ones, your manager creates most of the environment that makes your job pleasant or difficult.

Cons

Typical politics of a large company

Pros

The base compensation is average to above average, and there tends to be good respect for work-life balance. There are some really great people working there, and pockets of support for professional and personal growth.

Cons

While AMD talks a good talk about professional growth, I found myself blocked a bit as I tried to develop my career. There's a tendency to pigeonhole good people into their role, and while it makes sense, it's a frustrating place to be. The company changes direction in messaging, marketing, and focus often, making it very hard to really maintain a consistent story. The overall experience is decent, but lacking when it comes to really developing one's career.

Advice to Senior Management

Pick a story and stick with it. Fewer products, sharper messaging, more competitive positioning. Make it easy for sales to sell, and for customers to buy. Re-evaluate the middle management tier - you let a lot of solid people go in the big layoff, without really having any management support or even management expertise to fill in the gaps.

Pros

Fair salary, reasonable growth opprtunities

Cons

Matrixed organization is somewhat chaotic

Advice to Senior Management

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Pros

Be able to do what I like, and no need to work overtime

Cons

Didn't agree with managers on what is important

Pros

May good opportunities to learn.

Cons

I wish the company was doing better.

Pros

do not need punch in. people nice.

Cons

stupid verification flow... waste most fo time when you debug failed testcase.

Pros

AMD has great technology and is consistently on the leading edge, technologically.

Cons

The internal systems are very immature & the senior leadership is weak. It's no fun competing in a duopoly when you only have 10% market share.

Advice to Senior Management

Re-organize the sales force based on the products and the markets that the company is interested in. Stop making minor adjustments to the old structure to solve "this quarter's" problem.

Pros

Offer the best health care package (medical, vision, dental, etc.)

Cons

Not enough support for IT support when you have IT issue.

Advice to Senior Management

Mindset change