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      A bad place to work - Engineering Manager AMD Employee Review

      1.0
      Mar 9, 2023
      Engineering manager
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      CEO has a good vision

      Cons

      Crazy head heavy and lots of politics. Working level engineers very very stressful with low salary and slow promotion. AMD has so many VPs that it is ridiculous. You see a VP reporting to a VP reporting to another VP reporting to another VP in every BU. Those VPs got hired because they are buddies of other VPs. Those VPs/Sr Directors have no value but must consume a good portion of company annual pay budget so that getting an engineer req becomes very difficult. As a result, every engineer in AMD is under tremendous stress because each is doing work equivalent to 1.5 to 2 engineers in other companies. Be aware of outsourcing because the company seems to be more interested in growing India/China jobs than in the US. It is easily the worse company ever worked and I am very happy that I am not there any more.

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      4.0
      Apr 13, 2026
      Senior electrical engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      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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