Great place to start as a new grad - Software Engineer AMD Employee Review

4.0
Jan 21, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

-> Depending on the team, there's a lot of projects that will help with building experience -> Good work-life balance but there will be times where you are required to work overtime. Some teams have zero work-life balance

Cons

-> Salary is averagely on the lowerside for the industry -> There's less vacation holidays and sick days compared to other compaines.

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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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