AMD reviews

4.0

82% would recommend to a friend

(4,896 total reviews)
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84% positive business outlook

AMD has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 4,896 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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3.0
Aug 16, 2010
Recommend
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Pros

Some great technical minds work here. Big reasons to want to work here - a challenging industry, very talented co-workers, flexible work schedules.

Cons

Some very poor managerial skills in certain teams (middle management). No team building events or any importance assigned to such things. Management shows poor understanding of the fact that sustained high-pressure work environments can be demotivating, especially when zero-promotions/zero-merit-raises/pay-cuts are enforced. People who 'make' themselves visible just by speaking a lot in meetings and emails seem to benefit disproportionately (by impressing middle management) than those who make real contributions. This is another sign of technically incompetent middle management and demoralizing.

2.0
Aug 15, 2010

Difficult place to work

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Relaxed workplace atmosphere. Not a high stress work environment. Lots of company communication. Food wasn't very good, but usually don't expect it to be from a company cafeteria. Good peers in engineering team to work with. Friendly workers. Clear company direction. Good salary and benefits. Good HR. Overall good work environment.

Cons

Mostly Asian language (Chinese mostly) spoken, very hard to get information that you normally get just from being in the office and listening to others' conversations. Couldn't jump into someone else's conversation happening at the cubicle next door since it was all in Chinese. Lots and lots of Chinese spoken in the hallways and even in meetings. I was one of 5 non-Asians and I was surprised at how much non-English is spoken openly. I tend to think that if you are going to speak a non-English language, you do that privately with your group. Especially not in meetings or places where others are there who can't speak your language.

3.0
Aug 13, 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great experience, you learn a lot about some of the cutting edge technologies that are going into computers in the near future.

Cons

Basically impossible to get promoted on your own merit- you have to play the game and make the right friends. This, of course, then means that you have a lot of people at the upper levels who aren't really smarter or better than their lower-down colleagues, but are adept at backstabbing. May just be a feature of the group I was in, though.

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