AMD

A lot of the work is pretty cool and rewarding. Lots of opportunity to prove yourself if you are motivated. Often a lot of freedom to choose your own adventure. Work/life balance is pretty good. Benefits are okay, but not great. Salary is good, but not great. If you do good work and work on the right projects, you'll likely get promoted.

• There are so many useless people that don't care about their job, but management never disciplines or fires them.
• A lot of "old guard" have let their skills run completely out of date but have decided they will continue to ride the gravy train to retirement.
• There is something seriously wrong with the entire QA process. You can see it in forums that AMD notoriously releases buggy chipset firmware, driver software, etc., with issues that should've easily been caught by QA.
• Often times, projects that you work on will get axed for no apparent reason, leaving you with months and months of effort that is never used for anything.
• It's difficult not to notice the insane gender imbalance. I get the tech industry as a whole has this issue, but there were less than a dozen women on a floor with several hundred guys. It's 2019, people...

Create a culture where managers feel empowered to let low-performing employees go. It really lowers the morale of the team to have to constantly pick up the slack for lazy employees.

Figure out how to do better with QA. My new company won't buy Zen 2 chips because the forums are all talking about how many bugs are in the chipset firmware. They just bought a ton of systems with Core i9s that are more expensive and less efficient than Threadripper, which is messed up, but I can't say I totally blame them.