Good pay but work-life balance is sacrificed - Design Verification Engineer AMD Employee Review

3.0
Jul 27, 2025
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Pros

• Great monetary offer if you aced the interview • Great employee benefits (free coffee, console games, dental, medical) • Vast variety of knowledge, tons of learning opportunities

Cons

• Super fast-paced, have to juggle multiple tasks in parallel • Tasks on hand are micromanaged, expecting significant progress every week • Geopolitics, if your team is not local, expect peers whom are not willing to share information and you will be knocking into walls trying to complete a simple task • Poor documentation, to understand certain things, you have to delve into the code-level to understand how interconnections are made • Poor distribution of IP feature ownership, some features are only taken care of by one person; if that person is reluctant to share information or is on leave, you have no way to consult that person regarding the featurre • Output-oriented instead of learning-oriented, you will not be given time to learn the big picture of things, but only focus on completing your assigned deliverables • Unrealistic datelines, expects new hires to complete four tasks that involves major code development just two months into the job

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5.0
Jun 24, 2026
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Pros

Engineering led company Smart people to work with Always learning

Cons

Processes and checks/balances not always followed (no strong rigid process flow which can be good/bad) Company still too consumer product focused (versus corporate) in many divisions

3.0
Jun 22, 2026
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Pros

The pay is really nice. 3/4 managers I've had actually seem to care! Nice location for most folks.

Cons

They will keep you on contract until they literally cannot anymore. Getting hired on full-time is like pulling teeth.

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