Bad Management Smothers Good Engineering - Senior Product Development Engineer AMD Employee Review

2.0
Jun 26, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

Some very talented engineers with a wealth of knowledge; interesting environment to discuss and work on engineering issues.

Cons

Majority of management at all levels is non-technical and a detriment to the company. This results in management's inability to properly understand scope of an engineering issue, and how to properly resolve the issue in a given timeframe. Decisions are too often made for business reasons and not based on engineering data- hence the Barcelona debacle.

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