Tight Budgets + Crushing Amount of Work - Senior Marketing Manager AMD Employee Review

2.0
26 May 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Flexible work environment but you’ll be working all the time no matter where you are, free gym membership that you won’t have time to use, good training ground for newbies since everyone does 2-3 jobs, openly supports LGBTQ employees but you have to pretend you don’t have a family if you’re a mom.

Cons

AMD operates like the world’s oldest start up. Budgets are always tight with incredibly high expectations and minimal staff. You will easily clock 60-70+ hours/week and EVERYTHING will be your job from high level strategic customer meetings/presentations to ordering carpeting for vendor booths. It takes much longer to get promoted if you are female although AMD has a female CEO. Very little employee appreciation by managers because all funds are allocated to the business.

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4.0
13 Apr 2026
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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