Used to be better... - Anonymous employee AMD Employee Review

3.0
Dec 16, 2008
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Laid back culture, fairly flexible hours, a good number of very smart people to work around, mid-level management is personable and easy to work with

Cons

Frequent layoffs, frequent changes in project plans, projects understaffed with no downtime between them, benefits not competitive with other chip design companies in Austin, promotions based on obscure and borderline non-sensical ranking system with manager personality and politics playing a larger role than technical ability/job performance.

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