Excessive inter-office politics; tendency to permanently pigeon-hole engineering staff - Anonymous employee AMD Employee Review

3.0
Jul 28, 2010
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Lots of highly-competent and experienced engineers, cutting-edge ASIC technology, acceptable benefits and compensation. Senior management (VP and above) on the technical side really know their stuff. If you can cut through the politics and some big egos to find your niche, you can really do quite well.

Cons

Inter-office politics really kill employee enthusiasm. Two sites in particular are constantly fighting for supremacy (including promotions, technical responsibilities, and general recognition), and the other sites are simply along for the ride. Compensation is merely acceptable, not great. Recent trend is to add managers, rather than engineers. Management below VP level on technical side is really hit or miss. Engineers with too-specific a skill set can get stuck in a rut.

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Pros

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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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