Ex AMD Employee - Anonymous employee AMD Employee Review

1.0
Jul 18, 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Flexible work timing Excellent infrastructure

Cons

Expected to learn everything - No training provided No work life balance Incapable management staff People Managers not capable of understanding technology MTS promoted to manager are really horrible- not able to manage anything Adequate lab space not provided Owner ship model is followed which means even if a hardware is not purchased or a port is not opened. It is the responsibility of engineer. Management safely washes its hand over it. Red Tapism Management tends to hire there relative using contract to permanent route Politics dominates over hard work One needs to oil the ego of Managers to become there favourate to grow in the organization Firing and Hiring freeze is the name of AMD No money . AMD can close any time. Never heard that AMD made profits. Its just AMD has less or more losses over previous years CEOs comes and promises to change AMD to profitability. It never happens Employees are not allowed to choose there career. They are forced to do jobs which they don't like. Talented people leave AMD and what is left is leftovers. People who can't find job outside stick to AMD. This is 100 % true for management and 70% true for Engineering side

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Pros

Very exciting work, so much so I work 20hours a day. No distractions from silly/fun events. Food is meh so I can focus on work. Coffee is also very mid, not good, not bad but mid.

Cons

Not enough work, I only work 20 hour a day, I still have 4 hours to sleep. And on the weekends, we still have 3 hour leisure time. We still accept People who gets hired expecting to work only a measly 80 hour week.

4.0
Apr 13, 2026
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Pros

It's a big company. So, a lot of great benefits and high pay. Also, a lot of opportunity for career advancement and internal transfers if a particular job/team doesn't fit (to avoid losing RSUs). Plus, they're not too hard on you regarding performance since all the performance reviews are qualitative rather than quantitative (that could be both a pro and a con, honestly).

Cons

It's a big company. So, a lot of bureaucracy. They get in the way of themselves requiring endless approvals for spending. Also small organizations within AMD being territorial about their particular domain rather than being as open as possible inhibits rapid progress. Also, pushing for "diversity and inclusion" is racist. They should ignore race, not try to have a representative sampling of the population. I give them a low score there because DEI is racist. But not minimal because it's only something the HR dept cares about, normal employees effectively ignore race from what I can tell. So even if management is woke, the company (the individuals) are not.

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