Some good people, horrible middle management - Senior Product Manager AMD Employee Review

2.0
Sep 30, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Good salary Smart engineers Good product roadmap Strong executive management

Cons

Senior mgt (directors and many cvp) as a general rule - horrible Sales & marketing are weak. Not enough adult supervision from exec mgt Need to clean house in client & server sales & marketing Invest in building your market Benefits (insurance, etc) have gone way down hill Politics are toxic

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4.0
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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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