AMD has no idea what drives demand for their product, and is resists adapting to the changing market dynamics. - Software Relations AMD Employee Review

2.0
Jun 18, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

AMD is very family-friendly, promotes working from home, and overall though the internal reporting structures change often, the jobs of contributors rarely change. This makes it easy to remain focused on a goal throughout an evaluation period, though your mileage may vary.

Cons

Death by weekly or daily meetings. AMD people spend a lot of time talking about what they'd like to do, but there's no motivation to reprioritize. Everyone spends so much time in meetings and bureaucracy that rather than being a culture of efficiency, it's a culture of spinning wheels. No one is willing to stop what they're doing to focus on more important issues. What's more, the management is structured to prevent you from doing anything of the sort. AMD also puts as much burden of policies and paperwork on Manager level and below as they can so as to relieve the stress on upper ranks. AMD is bleeding money in lost productivity among the individual contributors and is blissfully ignorant as to the cost of lost productivity from this approach.

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4.0
Apr 13, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

It's a big company. So, a lot of great benefits and high pay. Also, a lot of opportunity for career advancement and internal transfers if a particular job/team doesn't fit (to avoid losing RSUs). Plus, they're not too hard on you regarding performance since all the performance reviews are qualitative rather than quantitative (that could be both a pro and a con, honestly).

Cons

It's a big company. So, a lot of bureaucracy. They get in the way of themselves requiring endless approvals for spending. Also small organizations within AMD being territorial about their particular domain rather than being as open as possible inhibits rapid progress. Also, pushing for "diversity and inclusion" is racist. They should ignore race, not try to have a representative sampling of the population. I give them a low score there because DEI is racist. But not minimal because it's only something the HR dept cares about, normal employees effectively ignore race from what I can tell. So even if management is woke, the company (the individuals) are not.

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