Great learning opportunity experience on many areas. A struggling company financially and organizationally - Senior Manager AMD Employee Review

1.0
Nov 10, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

2nd big in CPU and 2nd big in GPU business, Cross platform Arch IP owners. An excellent graphics technlogy. A matured technology company. Compensations are comparable and in par with industry.

Cons

Highly unstable business and highly unstable organizations. A frequent changes in leadership from CEO to bottom engineers. But hardly any changes to the flaws and incorrect executive decisions. While large Corps are matured to leverage high value geo sites for economical execution, AMD has been far behind and failed to utilize high value Geos like India, China and Russia. Lot of executive level ego and preferences compromised several offshore decisions and failed to utilize potential value from India and Chine organizations. A complete failure of top Technical staff in forecasting technology market, performance values and analyze competition. AMD is struggling trying to mimic what Intel does and fails all the time. Technical and road map decisions made based on competition and not on what it is good at to deliver.

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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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