Friendly place, lack of compensation - ASIC Design Engineer AMD Employee Review

3.0
Jun 15, 2012
Recommend
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Pros

- Friendly co-workers - Not so stressful as some other companies - Management flexible with employee requests

Cons

- Compensation and benefits mediocre for such a large company - Still no ESPP - Career growth is mainly a horizontal thing. If you want to move up, you mostly have to move out.

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Pros

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Cons

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5.0
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Pros

Engineering led company Smart people to work with Always learning

Cons

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