Interesting work, but company in constant state of transition - Anonymous employee AMD Employee Review

3.0
15 Mar 2014
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

The opportunity to work on advanced technology is a plus. Pay is reasonable considering the company's financial challenges over the past few year.

Cons

Company has been going through a lot of necessary changes as it adapts to the eroding PC market. This causes a lot of projects to get canceled (and work to get wasted). It can be hard to get things done due to tight budgets. Base pay has remained reasonable, but bonuses have been somewhat limited for the past several years due to the company trying to survive.

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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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