Very competitive environment, rather difficult place to work - Member of Technical Staff Engineer AMD Employee Review

2.0
Mar 6, 2012
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Pros

Salary ranges were good. Many good colleagues. Challenging problems to solve, and a good environment for generating solutions, at least in the EDA tools space.

Cons

Understaffed in many areas. Management did not seem to be in touch with the difficulties of the day to day work going on. The environment of multi-site splitting of projects and staff made ongoing cooperation difficult. A feeling of a very reactive company to attempt to fill the needs of the marketplace, especially trying to catch up to competition. A culture based on reward and recognition and individual accomplishments, which translated to a culture where sharing of knowledge seemed to be restricted.

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Cons

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Pros

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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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