AMD/ATI - Anonymous employee AMD Employee Review

2.0
Jan 16, 2013
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Highly creative environment, work with smart people, challenging work

Cons

Very stressful for engineers--make an insane deadline and it becomes the normal deadline (because you could, nevermind the long days). In-house politics are same or worse as at any other company. I dislike the pointlessness of it all.

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Cons

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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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