just another amd'er - Product Development Engineer II AMD Employee Review

3.0
25 June 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Being an underdog and the urge to perform better. Laid back work culture. having some great engineers.

Cons

All time low employee morale. Getting to know more info from external sites than from the management. Communication meetings that are not upto the mark. Always the motto being to catch up with Intel rather than lead the way and think out of the box.

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4.0
13 Apr 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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