Earn Your Stripe, Join a Company Re-Defining Itself - Anonymous employee AMD Employee Review

5.0
Jun 14, 2014
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

I love AMD and I worked in Corporate Marketing. Yes, AMD's salaries are extremely competitive. Work/life balance is yours to own as long as you deliver. However, the real selling factor is the people: Colette LaForce is easily the most personable CMO I've had the pleasure of working for in my career. She is open to new ideas, critical feedback and in turn her leadership mostly mirrors these traits. The marketing team at AMD across the board is full of great leaders who are passionate and intelligent. The organization I worked in is full of go getters who work hard but, in my opinion, are ultimately under appreciated because of AMD's historical engineering and sales focus.

Cons

As the company is mid-turn around, there is some natural confusion and oftentimes bureaucracy. This is a symptom of frequent reorgs and historical cultural traditions. This has unfortunately resulted in sub-optimal, siloed processes and an unwillingness to accept change. Enablement is a real issue at AMD as profitability goals have caused opex pressure, resulting in limited resources.

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Cons

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Cons

Since I joined, I realized the teams in software engineering practices has always been sub par compared to the other companies who built competitive tools. There is a huge gap in our hardware expertise vs software development maturity. Excessively complex architectural decisions and poor decisioning only ended up in burning more cash each year, and this is likely due to engineers with long tenures within the company siloed with their ideas. Furthermore, there is a disconnect in management’s approach to evaluating engineering success. The current focus on optics rather than tangible technical metrics has demoralized the team, leading to high turnover risk. I am also concerned that our current reward structure incentivizes short-term 'churn'—building unnecessary features only to 'optimize' them later—rather than sustainable development. Finally, from an operational standpoint, I noticed the cloud infrastructure spending in some teams were substantially higher than acceptable ; the ROI is not currently justifying the scale of our investment. Culture is a joke. Not surprised since this is a 50 year old company with a particular ethnicity’s dominance everywhere although they claim they are culturally diverse, this only retards your growth within the company.

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