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      AMD: Despite itself, a great place to work - Director, Community Affairs AMD Employee Review

      4.0
      May 2, 2008
      Director, community affairs
      Recommend
      CEO approval
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      Pros

      While not perfect, AMD - for the most part - respects its employees and has a positive corporate culture. It's the anti-Dell. At almost nine years there, I feel that good work gets rewarded and non-performers eventually get weeded out. But there are exceptions to these rules.

      Cons

      There is a ceiling of success that AMD can never seem to exceed. Intel essentially has us under their thumb, similar to a puppet-master over his puppet. They never want us to go away because they would encounter so much more scrutiny from the government, but they want us to bleed untl we're on life support - only to let him enough for us to stay alive.

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      4.0
      Apr 13, 2026
      Senior electrical engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business outlook

      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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