Join this company at your own risk - Principle Engineer AMD Employee Review

1.0
15 Jan 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Company business is doing great

Cons

Work place bullying for new emplyees is normal. Throwing you in fire is the "way" to rampup new engineers and that begins from second week and it's never ending. HR presence is not strong. Most of new joinees are waiting for 1 or 2 years to complete based on the clause in their joining bonus. I met many ex-employees who returned bonus as it was too hard to finish that time period even. You can deduce the quality of experience.

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4.0
13 Apr 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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