good working environment - Senior Member of Technical Staff AMD Employee Review

4.0
9 Aug 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The engineering projects are interesting with lots of technical challenges. The work environment is also quite good with minimum politics since there are less meetings.

Cons

The unstable financial condition of the company is a problem since there have been layoffs in the past few years. The company can also provide more training for employees so employees can pick up the most advance technology.

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Cons

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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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