Hard workers get rewarded - Senior Member of Technical Staff AMD Employee Review

4.0
May 2, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The management is good at seeing industry trends, makes swift decisions and keeps employees informed. They are transparent and you feel like a family. No unnecessary walls between individual contributors vs the management. They never or rarely have layoffs.

Cons

Due to the small size of the company (1/10 the number of employees compared to Intel) and because they never or rarely have layoffs, overall engineering talent is mixed and a portion of the employees have to take extra load, but then they also get rewarded well.

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4.0
Apr 13, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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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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