AMD

A lot (~200) of other interns were there, so there were lots of opportunities to make friends. I still keep in touch with about 3-5 of them. The workload is highly dependent on your team: some coast a lot, others milk interns and new hires as much as they can.

Pretty awful. Everyone there is dead and the company makes no effort to care about you as an employee.

For example, incredibly cheap culture (we had to pay $15 to attend our own Christmas party if we wanted to go) and besides a small percentage (< 10%) who are actually passionate about computer hardware and electronics, nobody seems excited to be at work and general support for co-workers is apathetic at best.

Stop being so cheap and try to value employees more.

To be fair, though, I think AMD came from near bankruptcy about five years ago, so they're just trying to do their best to "milk" the most out of their employees to try to compete with Intel and Nvidia, both of whom have far more resources than AMD does.

Despite all my criticism, I actually like Lisa Su as CEO since she seems to understand the driving technological milestones needed by the company in order to stay afloat.