AMD UK severly lacking - Engineer AMD Employee Review

1.0
Mar 20, 2025
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Pros

They pay a paycheck on time

Cons

Leaders in UK all seem to be burnouts from other companies that got their job from title on CV rather than delivery, company was very naiive setting up in the UK. Hiring friends from other companies and inflating titles. If most of the people got fired from a startup for incompetence, what good will they do here? Good architects were hired but having everyone from the same company and a chip on their shoulder was never going to create a good environment. Having a tech lead that never delivered a product and little domain knowledge? Joke. Seems word is out on the industry now not to come here not that AMD can afford to hire anyone these days. RSUs terrible for longer serving employees. Stack ranking mandates a sacrificial lamb every year.

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4.0
Apr 13, 2026
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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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