Large Carcass - Executive AMD Employee Review

1.0
Jan 8, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

AMD was a great company with great people

Cons

The executive team continues to beat the remaining employees into submission with endless job cuts and austerity measures. The morale and energy has been destroyed by a lack of leadership. When the top 6 people at the company reward themselves with over $32M in salary and bonus pay while the company flounders - they are just feeding off a large carcass and lying to the world about their intent.

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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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