AMD Reviews in San Jose, CA Area

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

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

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

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

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

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,

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.

Pros

Can learn most it from colleague and people are willing to teach and help each other. Very hard to get in

Cons

Hard to get promotion . And bonus are limited. This is same for big corporation. Compensation is only average. Hard to retain talent as other company offer better benefit

Advice to Senior Management

More aggressive hiring and retention program is needed,

Pros

Great employees, collegial environment, flexbility

Cons

Extremely limited opportunities for advancement

Pros

Nice peers and no micromanagement, work and life balance, open discussion and communication, people and my manager are very accessible

Cons

Bad decisions from high level managers, too many meetings, politics politics politics! sometimes it makes the working environment intolerable and very inefficient. junior people are underpaid and they are the hard-working guys.

Advice to Senior Management

do your work, stop those many meetings and those office politics!! how can you compete with the big guy with bad decisions?