Worst place to work. Dictatorship - Senior Silicon Design Engineer AMD Employee Review

1.0
Apr 28, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

AMD Ryzen is a known name though it is not as famous as Intel

Cons

AMD India (Bangalore) is the worst place to work. The management is pathetic. They don't need engineers, they need robots that work day and night and simply follow the instructions. Micromanagement is at the core of the team. Managers and Directors are dictators here. Engineers are slaves to them. You won't find more arrogant and rude director and manager in the industry. You need to follow each and every word they say. They are always right. Nobody is going to help you. If you join AMD you are on your own. But everyone will ask for status updates day and night. Instead of actual work, most of the focus is on meetings. You will spend half of your working hours in meetings and giving status. Therefore making it obvious that you need to spend extra hours to complete the actual work. There are lot of VLSI companies having much better work culture than AMD. Join them and save your career. Once you join AMD, there won't be any increments and bonuses given to you for more than a year. Save your personal life and your career. Stay away from AMD.

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4.0
Apr 13, 2026
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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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