Great place to work, but you may need to leave the company to get promoted - Software Engineer (MTS) AMD Employee Review

4.0
May 10, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

What a great iconic coming to work for. You work hard here but you learn a lot and then make sure you get what you need to do your job.

Cons

You have to fight tooth and nail to get a promotion or a raise here. If you're talented it's possible but you quickly get behind new people hired in. I was here for the dark days and I'm almost penalized for it

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4.0
Apr 13, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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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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