AMD - Sinking Ship or Phoenix waiting to rise again? - Senior Member of Technical Staff AMD Employee Review

3.0
25 Jun 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

My manager allows me flexible work hours as well as a partial telecommute option. Opinions of employees are solicited and the management is forthcoming with communication regarding decisions made. The technical aspects of the job are challenging and because of the underdog status of the company there is a heightened sense of achievement on meeting/exceeding milestones.

Cons

AMD runs a very tight ship (more so in this down cycle for the company). There is always a resource crunch and typically that means sacrificing of critical projects or trying to run them with drastic compromises. Due to this once you are an expert at something and good at it, it is very difficult to move on to other things. This is extremely career limiting. There is a "cultish" mentality that the senior management tries to project, where AMD does nothing wrong and all the problems are because of big, bad intel. This leads to senior management not taking enough responsibility for their failures and lowers employee morale and the employees' faith in senior management.

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4.0
13 Apr 2026
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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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