Good company to develop your skills by being given responsibility - Anonymous employee AMD Employee Review

3.0
Jun 6, 2014
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

AMD will give you responsibility and expect you to perform. This is a great way to gain true growth and improvement in your skills - a good school in that sense. Also, AMD has a culture of developing really good products from the ground up. They do this by thinking out of the box, which results in new technologies or better ways of delivering solutions. Great research, engineering and product development teams.

Cons

AMD has always relied on layoffs to control their OPEX. When times are good, the company shares its success with employees, which is great. But when times are bad, they wont hesitate to cut employees.

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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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