Never join AMD unless you want to ruin your life and career - Anonymous employee AMD Employee Review

1.0
23 May 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

There are no pros. Absolutely nothing.

Cons

Zero career growth. Same routine work year after year, especially in India. Even the software services companies provide better work and better career opportunities. No work/life balance. Any other company would provide better compensation and benefits. Horrible work culture. Too much politics, especially by the India senior management. Employees are exploited like anything, and are treated like how Indians treat their maids. One might sacrifice and give everything to the company year after year, but eventually the India management will treat you like dirt.

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4.0
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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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