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

3.0
Dec 16, 2008
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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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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Cons

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Pros

Very exciting work, so much so I work 20hours a day. No distractions from silly/fun events. Food is meh so I can focus on work. Coffee is also very mid, not good, not bad but mid.

Cons

Not enough work, I only work 20 hour a day, I still have 4 hours to sleep. And on the weekends, we still have 3 hour leisure time. We still accept People who gets hired expecting to work only a measly 80 hour week.

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