Toxic and not recommended - Financial Analyst AMD Employee Review

1.0
Mar 7, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Big company so you can brag to your friends All positive reviews are coming from HR or high management to save face. Trust me.

Cons

1. All the bosses performance and work ethics are based on their moods If you made a mistake when they are in their bad mood- you will be scolded and yelled at like you have no dignity. Approvals only come in if they are in their good mood. Sometimes need to wait for days just to get approval on something small. 2. Employees feedback are tailored to your bosses preference. Dont ever think you can be honest and wanting the company to improve. Your feedback will be flashed during team meeting and you will be forced to change the feedback to a positive one. 3. Micromanaging is real. They micromanage you like you dont have any degrees/educational background. 4. No career growth at all. If you stay here for 20 years, you will only be promoted once or twice. And that is only subject to management preference. If they like you then high chance youre gonna get promoted. Imagine if you jump careers within the 20 years. Your salary hike might be more than 100%. People throw others under the buses just to get to their boss good sides. Toxic and immature company. Personally i have no respect for these kind of people who cant even stand on their own. 5. Too much gossip affecting the work. Managements gossip about employees and expect we would just accept all the wrong things said about us. Everyone gossips- but if the gossip became a topic in your mid year coaching and caused your performance to be low. That is.. something to ponder on… 6. Very unprofessional culture in conclusion. Yelling, micromanaging, gossip, last minute deadline but the task given is a lot, invalid reasons for giving low performance to employees (you didnt volunteer enough) in other words- i have never and will never recommend this company to my friends because they will degrade your worth.

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Cons

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1.0
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Cons

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