Good place to work - Software Development Engineer II AMD Employee Review

4.0
4 Dec 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Good compensation, good work life balance. Fairly flexible and well organized, a lot of independence in how you approach your work. Pretty ideal job for self-motivated mid and late career professionals.

Cons

Management can be a little too hands off. Upper level employees often have remote work privileges, but lower level employees do not. Office pretty empty except for these non-remote employees which hurts company culture. Bonuses for past few years were not full.

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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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