AMD: Great company to work for, but median salary and lack of bonus make it questionable. - Design Engineer I AMD Employee Review

3.0
Jun 13, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

As a new grad engineer, I feel like AMD is a real young company and really is a good fit for someone new in the industry. The opportunities for learning new things are really endless. Everyone in our company is really open to sharing information and the environment doesn't feel very competitive. The environment has a real open and relaxed sort of feel. Its a very comfortable environment.

Cons

The pay at AMD is roughly average... The opportunities for promotion and growth at AMD is really low in my opinion. To be promoted, your manager has to put forth a lot of effort to prove to upper management that you deserve a promotion. Even if you have proven yourself in many occasions, they still use time as the main factor to judge your promotion versus your performance. The time you may have spent as a co-op at AMD does not factor into your promotion either. Also salary increases are really small and the bonuses are not that great

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4.0
Apr 13, 2026
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CEO approval
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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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