AMD reviews

4.0

82% would recommend to a friend

(4,898 total reviews)
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95% approve of CEO

84% positive business outlook

AMD has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 4,898 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The AMD employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Informationstechnologie industry (3.9 stars).

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1.0
Feb 14, 2013

Good demonstration of Peter principle

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Pros

They make cheap crap? GPU hardware is good.

Cons

The Peter Principle is a belief that, in an organization where promotion is based on achievement, success, and merit, that organization's members will eventually be promoted beyond their level of ability Boy is this true for AMD's "management". A tech company that's run like an automotive shop floor. The idiot "managers" like to feel important and always thump their "authority" at every opportunity. Read review from Feb 4. If you stick around for long enough at AMD, survive a few layoffs, and wait out all the people with potential who leave for better jobs, you'll become management, and you'll have your own crop of rejects to boss around. AMD is a second rate company, because they hire and promote second rate people. This is especially true in psuedo-technical departments (software QA). Software QA has no scientific process, it's as if the whole company runs on "compile and run" testing methodology that college kids use in CS 101 when learning to program. The intranet site is crap, all the software tools, bug tracking system are 10 years old.

2.0
Feb 4, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

The founder, Jerry Sanders greatly appreciated the employees. Thus stockpiling great employee loyalty. The compensation was distributed fairly under his regime. Hector Ruiz followed as CEO who brought fiscal discipline but lacked true vision. The coworkers were of the MOST helpful I encountered, especially during the reign of Sanders, Ruiz, and Meyer. Later CEOs and upper management caused the culture to turn downward whereby employees were only worried about themselves.

Cons

The company sets unrealistic goals and refuses to listen from below. Recently, in the past 5 years, management has abused and eroded employee loyalty. The company lacks vision and has changes course too frequently.

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