Upper Executive Management Has Lost Their Edge - Engineering Manager AMD Employee Review

1.0
Jul 16, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

* Always pushing the envelope of technology * Fast paced, cut-throat business - very exciting

Cons

* Poor upper executive management leadership. They have lacked the long term vision and has allowed the company to fall behind in the market. * Poor communication to the employees by the exec management. Instead of really talking about what the problems are and what is being down to fix them, management decides to put together a marketing like slide presentation that was pure BS.

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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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