A good place to work if ordinariness is a lesser concern - Senior Program Manager AMD Employee Review

3.0
8 Apr 2010
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Pros

The pay scale is fair and consistent with high tech Benefits are good Many opportunities to innovate and improve The culture is engineering centric The new campus is modern and inviting Austin TX is a good location for single people as well as raising a family

Cons

The culture is engineering centric The new campus design reflect some level of disconnect. Disciplines and groups are physically separated Collaboration across the enterprise is a foreign concept Relatively too much time is spent on looking good particularly at the senior levels Conformity is expected and rewarded even when individualism is sometimes publicly encouraged High level of resistance to change Employee survey results are often used to camouflage leadership gaps Despite all the wishful thinking, beating the competition continues to be an illusive fantasy

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5.0
9 Jun 2026
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Pros

Very exciting work, so much so I work 20hours a day. No distractions from silly/fun events. Food is meh so I can focus on work. Coffee is also very mid, not good, not bad but mid.

Cons

Not enough work, I only work 20 hour a day, I still have 4 hours to sleep. And on the weekends, we still have 3 hour leisure time. We still accept People who gets hired expecting to work only a measly 80 hour week.

4.0
13 Apr 2026
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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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