A bad place to work
A bad place to work
The CEO has a good vision.
Crazy head, heavy and lots of politics. Working-level engineers are very, very stressful, with low salaries and slow promotions. AMD has so many VPs that it is ridiculous. You see a VP reporting to a VP, reporting to another VP, reporting to another VP in every BU. Those VPs got hired because they are buddies of other VPs. These VPs/Sr. Directors have no value but must consume a good portion of the company's annual pay budget, so getting an engineer req becomes very difficult. As a result, every engineer in AMD is under tremendous stress because each is doing work equivalent to 1.5 to 2 engineers in other companies. Be aware of outsourcing, because the company seems to be more interested in growing India/China jobs than in the US. It is easily the worst company I have ever worked for, and I am very happy that I am not there anymore.
Fire half VPs and Sr. Directors.
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Engineering Manager
The candidate described working experiences, technical capabilities, and project management techniques. Former projects were also discussed and questioned by the panel during the personal interview. The candidate went to the drawing board to describe
Engineering Co-Op
The job was for application development. It included some programming questions, and basic questions about: * The differences between C and C++ * The differences between a Heap and Stack, and how they are implemented in C++
Engineering Manager
April 1, 2008Pretty much normal and low-key. A couple phone screens, a day of questions from managers and engineers.
Engineering Manager
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Engineering Co-Op
CanadaApril 5, 2013The job was for application development. It included some programming questions, and basic questions about: * The differences between C and C++ * The differences between a Heap and Stack, and how they are implemented in C++
