Managers at AMD are living proof of the Dilbert principle
Pros
- If you don't want to do any meaningful work, and just collect a paycheck, AMD is a good company
Cons
- If you want to learn, and grow in your career, stay away from this company. Project managers with their worthless PMP certificate run the show. Development morale is at an all time low. Developers don't give a flip about doing a good job, most of them have become desensitized because they constantly put out fires, and fix problems caused by bad planning and incompetent project management. They don't care about innovation. Innovative ideas are usually poorly executed, making the product WORSE. Ideas don't come from developers and engineers, it comes from marketing. AMD always plays catch-up. AMD is an extremely poor jack of all trades. The only reason this company exists is because they sell cheap crap. There is no prospect for advancement, if you start your job on the wrong team. AMD will never have swan stories of somebody who started in the mail-room (or the equivalent for an engineer), and worked his way up the chain and became successful. They hire "experienced" people from outside the company, and pay them 2x what somebody who's been with the company for 5 years makes. No internal promotions. You might get a title bump if your manager likes you, and you'll get more opportunities to tell other people how to do their jobs while checking your facebook.
