AMD Systems Design Engineer I reviews

4.1

99% would recommend to a friend

(14 total reviews)
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Dr. Lisa Su

100% approve of CEO

60% positive business outlook

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4.0
Jul 12, 2016

Design Engineer 1

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Pros

1) Your work will be unique and you significantly contribute to the product 2) Work and life balance is amazing

Cons

Technically I can't think of anything. Perks may be less when compared to other biggies.

5.0
Feb 4, 2015
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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.

4.0
Feb 27, 2014
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Pros

There are a lot of talented people. you can learn many things form them. The work enviorment is good, and benefits is OK.

Cons

It seems the senior menagement team didn't set correct direction for the company, the company is struggling for surviving. There is a lay off almost every year.

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