AMD Design Engineer reviews

3.9

95% would recommend to a friend

(55 total reviews)
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94% approve of CEO

51% positive business outlook

Design Engineer employees have rated AMD with 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 55 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Design Engineer professionals have a good working experience there. AMD is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Design Engineer professionals compared to other employers within the Informationstechnologie industry (3.9 stars).

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55 reviews
5.0
Jun 16, 2015

AMDs review

Recommend
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Pros

AMD always uses Latest Technology and does one of the best product designs. There is extremely high learning curve and is always on pace with the industry.

Cons

Share prices are too low. Need to become profitable. Bonuses are very less.

5.0
Feb 4, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Work is challenging, fun, and rewarding! There are a ton of interesting people and a lot of the team members enjoy each others company and it's a pretty good group. Pay is competitive, location is amazing, Importantly, the mid-level management (who the engineers deal with) is VERY flexible with hours, with taking time off, with load balancing in difficult times. I've literally never been overworked. Barring compute limitations, there's not a lot of excessive meetings and red tape to do actual work, the engineering team is pretty efficient.

Cons

There's not much effort put into training because there are a lot of smart stubborn people around who eventually just figure things out the hard way, but that's just stupid and frankly inefficient. The engineering team needs to better communicate concepts and strategies to each other and to new hires. There's a lot of people in their own world and like things done their own way, but this is unhealthy because if you don't collaborate and communicate then there are going to be different peoples' expectations that are at odds with each other. I don't think this is done intentionally though and most are courteous enough to take time to help you understand and open minded enough to change their minds if need be. HEALTH CARE PLAN is lackluster (although it's essentially free) - little to no coverage for mental health, and if you want to see a specialist or go to urgent care, better start putting some $ into your HSA. It's about to get even worse too as the company will not seed HSA's in the coming years, so it's no better than out of pocket for most people. The more pricey plans don't have enough value for most people to warrant consideration.

2.0
Apr 20, 2013

Good starting company

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

you do get to see a lot of different part of the design you have a lot of freedom to try different things one you have proved yourself most of the engineers are awesome

Cons

management is not really on top of their game; many miss steps over the last 5-6 years

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