The worst tallent is at the top of the food chain... - Anonymous employee AMD Employee Review

3.0
Jun 26, 2008
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

AMD has a laid back environment and is pretty comfortable. Most of the people I work with are pretty competent and have great personalities.

Cons

The top dogs seem to be steering the company into the ground... There is a general fear of being laid off. The decisions mad at the top of the ladder are poor and mislead at best. There is tons of waste and horrible communication between departments. To make the appropriate changes there needs to be a reduction in bureaucracy and an increase in perks to those who do the grunt work. Stop wasting so much money on crap and get some real marketing!

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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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