AMD

Overtime is expected and considered normal (60+ hours per week). Get prepared to give up most of your evenings, weekends, and holidays. Note that this does not mean your efforts will be appreciated or that you will advance in your career faster. Some senior employees even work through vacation days.

Management does not care about employees. They are constantly looking to make employees work through weekends, Christmas break, etc., with no additional pay or days back in lieu. Middle management blames senior management, saying these are requests cascaded from the top.

Pay is the lowest in the industry. Competition (Intel/NVIDIA) pays significantly higher. For example, the base salary of a new grad at Intel is more than a senior engineer at AMD.

Look out for "recharge days" throughout the year. These recharge days come directly out of your vacation days. Sometimes a recharge day might fall on a Friday, which you take off and burn a vacation day, and then you might be expected to come in on the Saturday to work. You do not get any additional pay or a day off in lieu for coming in on a Saturday.

You'll notice that a lot of junior employees/new grads have lead positions. This is management trying to squeeze as much juice as possible while paying the lowest possible salaries.

Some teams can be cliquey. Some managers fraternize with some direct reports (hanging out constantly outside of work), which is completely unprofessional and leads to favoritism. If you're not part of this inner circle, you get passed over for promotions or higher raises.

Female CEO, but women face constant sexism. Women coming back from maternity leave lose their progress in advancing to the next level. Women taking their full maternity leave entitlement get shamed/talked about behind their backs (as if maternity leave is a vacation). In the last Women's Day event held by the company, the guest speakers included Caucasian male executives, which many women raised as distasteful.

High turnover of experienced employees over the past year.

Show appreciation and reward employees constantly working out of regular hours to meet business demands.

Ensure those in management maintain strictly professional relationships with all direct reports to avoid favoritism.

Take steps to avoid sexism and make career advancement fair for women returning from maternity leave.

Lead roles should be given only to senior employees. Why are so many junior employees with no experience given or forced to take on lead roles?

If the company expects 60+ hours a week from their employees, compensation or headcount needs to be adjusted accordingly. They cannot be paying the lowest wages in the industry while expecting employees to be working 24/7.

Turnover has been exceptionally high this past year; management really needs to sit down and reflect why that has been happening.