AMD reviews

4.0

83% would recommend to a friend

(4,906 total reviews)
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95% approve of CEO

84% positive business outlook

AMD has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 4,906 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The AMD employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Informationstechnologie industry (3.9 stars).

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2.0
Apr 20, 2015

Senior Manager

Recommend
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Pros

Some of the people. Interesting work - only duopoly on earth so dynamics are there.

Cons

My immediate supervisor was great. Be on the lookout for the bear-claw climbers that will slash you, and you work associate, to get ahead not on merit but on "managing-upward" as they say.

3.0
Jan 16, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Some teams have healthy cultures. Some technical work is cutting-edge. It's a friendly atmosphere. AMD is never too formal. Flex time is possible so long as you're delivering stuff. There's often good collaboration across teams / sites / functions. Not much red tape. Work/life balance is fine in my experience, 40 hours will usually do it on most teams. Not a lot of crazy pie-in-the-sky research projects -- everyone's work is directly related to products. And we do ship a lot of products, they are in people's hands.

Cons

Some teams have unhealthy cultures: some are documentation-free, some are led by bullies. A few entire teams are deadwood. Some very senior bullshitters have built empires for themselves, and you don't want to cross them. Some parts of the company are an old-boy network, and some of the old boys don't hardly deserve their privilege. Revolving door senior management. Revolving door strategic plans. Annual layoffs and titanic-deck-chair-rearranging exercise. There are big upcoming debt payments, so a major future restructuring seems unavoidable. There's been brain drain, and less mature people have been promoted to fill the gaps, this has led to coworker quality issues on some teams. No accountability. Nobody ever gets in trouble for missing deadlines, low quality deliverables. It's good enough right? AMD can be democratic in the worst way. We can't do something unless everyone agrees, but we have to keep talking about it if anyone wants to do it. So there are a lot of "efforts" where 25 people get called to a weekly meeting to discuss some vague future process improvement which never goes anywhere. To survive, you have to develop a good sense of which efforts are fictitious and ignore them or decline participation.

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