Self serving, greedy and no clear vision - Desktop Administrator II AMD Employee Review

1.0
Feb 28, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

They pay money, sometimes hand out engineering samples and occasionally demoed new systems.

Cons

Lack of leadership - Either no leadership, or ineffective/impotent leadership. Take your pick. Lack of communication - Cannot communicate efficiently or effectively. Lack of common sense - IT people literally teach people how to use computers, teach engineers how to use Linux and teach internal organizations how to perform their job duties. Lack of responsibility - They don't even care about the stockholders, let alone the employees. Lack of advancement - Instead of elevating individuals who've thrived in the environment, they'd rather hire failures from other companies.

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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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