Engineers aren't rock stars, but overall have a good work life balance and work satisfaction - Member of Technical Staff Software Engineer AMD Employee Review

4.0
Jan 14, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

- flexible work environment - good work life balance - recent XBox One and PS4 raffles cheer up the environment a bit

Cons

- Rarely feel the excitement working here - Executives feel far and distant and irrelevant to our day to day work (maybe this is a Pro?) - We feel we are irrelevant to the executives the same way. - Salary raise and bonus? Rarely happen. Good luck! They feel like a lottery rather than something we work hard for and achieve.

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Pros

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Cons

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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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