lacks career development - Smts AMD Employee Review

2.0
Nov 11, 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Many sites around the world. There are lots of young engineers to work with. Company is trying to give bonuses even though its loosing money left and right.

Cons

AMD is not doing well. Getting squeezed out of "relevance" from Intel on high end and Arm on the low end. Arm is selling into the servers now, managements response is we will buy Calxeda and dominate the space... not a good strategy to me.

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Pros

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Cons

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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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