Busy environment - Quality Engineer AMD Employee Review

Flexibility with remote work and opportunities for ownership

Parts of the company are more mature than others

Stocks went up 5x in the last year

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.