A historically underperforming company with unproven leadership facing major challenges. - Senior Financial Analyst AMD Employee Review

3.0
Nov 5, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

AMD is a good place to work with some smart, hard working people. Senior management has a vision of shifting the product mix to embedded, enterprise and semi-custom and away from processors and graphics where they feel they can better compete and gain market share. This is the right direction in my opinion.

Cons

Change is extremely difficult in this 30+ year old company. A company of this size should be a lot more agile. There are a lot of siloed special interests that outwardly support change as long as it is not their area that changes. I do not have the impression that the executive leadership team is completely bought into the vision they claim to support based on the behavior of middle management. There is not enough focus on gross margin from the revenue side. Lacks sufficient measurement and control of margin eroding discounting practices from the sales teams. Serious need to flatten out end of quarter linearity but no focus in this area.

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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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