Great Engineering Experience - Systems Design Engineer II AMD Employee Review

5.0
May 21, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

AMD offers challenging opportunities, and flexibility in individual goals. Everyone is willing to help if you, personally, have issues, or ideas to improve the environment around you. This can, often, lead to engineers becoming talented in more than, just, ONE aspect of the job!

Cons

When new programs are rolling out, work-life-balance shifts heavily towards work.

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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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