Great Company Results oriented, low politics. - Senior Manager AMD Employee Review

4.0
Jul 19, 2021
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Pros

Lisa Su is focused on delivering great products to customers. Everything goes back to that focus so product and project decisions are designed to successfully deliver great products on time. Results have been great while competing against the two most competitive companies in the chip business; Intel and nVidia. Very engineering focused culture from the top down has little room for politics.

Cons

Very competitive markets require phenomenal execution to beat better funded competitors, little room for error. AMD still needs to increase gross margins to be at the top of the business.

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5.0
Jul 12, 2026
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Pros

Great team, great work culture and very open for people to grow.

Cons

Nothing I can think of.

4.0
Apr 13, 2026
Recommend
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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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