Marketing is a mess - Anonymous employee AMD Employee Review

2.0
Nov 9, 2021
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

The other divisions at AMD seem good and are responsible for its impressive success

Cons

Marketing at AMD is a hot mess. Zero leadership from the CMO, unqualified and poor managers promoted, wasteful spending as a result of poor planning and lack of vision, few opportunities for advancement, and a delusional party line from marketing leadership that insists we are the best of the tech industry. I feel like I'm in a really poorly run cult and dream of quitting every minute of every day. Everyone I know is only staying because accountability is low and the stock price is rising.

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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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