Great place to work, learn. - Design Engineer II AMD Employee Review

4.0
Jun 18, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Bright people who are motivated to succeed. There are so many brilliant minds to learn from, and best of all, most of these people are helpful and genuine - you can approach them and learn. Management at the lower levels run by engineers - so they know how an engineering company should be run. Very flexible with hours, schedule.

Cons

Senior management at the top sort of aimless, like to blame the engineers for their mistakes. Working at a company that's in a fight for its life - every quarter feels like holding your breath to see if you died or not.

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4.0
Apr 13, 2026
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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