Long hours, challenging to see the impact of your work. - Senior Member of Technical Staff AMD Employee Review

3.0
Apr 29, 2011
Recommend
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Pros

The chance to work on some of the most advanced process and design technologies, very interesting prospects for APU, GPU, fusion products could make the next few years very exciting.

Cons

Long hours, very poor coordination between product, design, and test groups. Lack of ownership of unexpected problems leads to wasted effort, inefficient processes. The unexpected problems should be very expected, senior management doesn't appear to understand the negative impact of supporting such a diverse set of products with the same number of engineers that used to support a single product line. (Two fusion products, one dedicated CPU product, multiple GPU products, multiple foundries, new process development, new package development, etc.) Not enough people to go around, so most people end up doing too many different things at the same time, which leads to a questionable level of quality.

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Pros

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Cons

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Pros

Very exciting work, so much so I work 20hours a day. No distractions from silly/fun events. Food is meh so I can focus on work. Coffee is also very mid, not good, not bad but mid.

Cons

Not enough work, I only work 20 hour a day, I still have 4 hours to sleep. And on the weekends, we still have 3 hour leisure time. We still accept People who gets hired expecting to work only a measly 80 hour week.

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