AMD Reviews in San Jose, CA Area

Current Employee – been working at AMD full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Good working environment, A few excellent tech ppl still around.

Cons – No end products, too many TO, none really fetches $$

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at AMD

Pros – May good opportunities to learn.

Cons – I wish the company was doing better.

Former Employee – worked at AMD

Pros – Flexibility of work type. You can shape your career as you want.
Management will provide the opportunity

Cons – Your furture is in your reporting managers hand. He can misuse the performance rating feedback.
No one in upper management, will question his rating. There is a repeated misuse of the "performance rating" system.

Advice to Senior Management – Please establish some checks and balances on direct Managers, who misuse the "annual performance rating" system.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at AMD

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.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at AMD

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

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at AMD

Pros – Easy going company . They will always remain a no 2 company

Cons – Very slow company with no direction

Advice to Senior Management – Hire if u need and donot fire just to make u r senior happy

Current Employee – been working at AMD

Pros – most people around you are nice to work with; good working environment; innovative products; free gym; on-site cafeteria; up to 4-week vacation annually;

Cons – being the underdog almost all the time, the company constantly in surviving mode, which means layoffs, budget cuts, pay cuts or freezes, priority changes, etc.

Advice to Senior Management – right the strategy, innovation, execution, then be profitable

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at AMD

Pros – Good Opportunities and cutting edge technology.
You work on latest technology and the cut throat competition drives the innovation..

Cons – They can be better in Salary

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at AMD

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,

Current Employee – been working at AMD

Pros – - Management is fair and open on compensation
- Clear and to the point performance reviews foster employee growth
- Smart ppl to work with. Cutting edge products and technology

Cons – - No ESPP. Hopefully it'll be reinstated later as profit stabilizes.
- Some tends to be quieter and don't share information well. Takes a bit more digging than necessary to get what you want.

Advice to Senior Management – - Need more clear directions some times.
- Don't change organization of employees too often. It might get confusing.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend