Good pay but work-life balance is sacrificed - Design Verification Engineer AMD Employee Review

3.0
27 July 2025
Recommend
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Pros

• Great monetary offer if you aced the interview • Great employee benefits (free coffee, console games, dental, medical) • Vast variety of knowledge, tons of learning opportunities

Cons

• Super fast-paced, have to juggle multiple tasks in parallel • Tasks on hand are micromanaged, expecting significant progress every week • Geopolitics, if your team is not local, expect peers whom are not willing to share information and you will be knocking into walls trying to complete a simple task • Poor documentation, to understand certain things, you have to delve into the code-level to understand how interconnections are made • Poor distribution of IP feature ownership, some features are only taken care of by one person; if that person is reluctant to share information or is on leave, you have no way to consult that person regarding the featurre • Output-oriented instead of learning-oriented, you will not be given time to learn the big picture of things, but only focus on completing your assigned deliverables • Unrealistic datelines, expects new hires to complete four tasks that involves major code development just two months into the job

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5.0
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Pros

Great team and coworkers at AMD

Cons

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5.0
9 June 2026
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Pros

Very exciting work, so much so I work 20hours a day. No distractions from silly/fun events. Food is meh so I can focus on work. Coffee is also very mid, not good, not bad but mid.

Cons

Not enough work, I only work 20 hour a day, I still have 4 hours to sleep. And on the weekends, we still have 3 hour leisure time. We still accept People who gets hired expecting to work only a measly 80 hour week.

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