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Great work-life balance. Great time to join if you believe the stock will go back up one day

Senior Software Engineer
Current Employee
Has worked at AMD for less than 1 year
January 15, 2009
Marlborough, Massachusetts
3.0
No CEO Opinion
Pros

Flexible work hours. Managers don't normally keep track of work hours or ask you to be physically in the office all the time.

Good work-life balance. Work days and work hours are flexible as long as the hours are about right. I have never been rejected on my vacation requests either. (Of course, I don't purposely take days off during the busy time.)

Cons

AMD is burning cash and not making enough revenue to cover the costs. Layoffs are depressing. The stock going down is depressing. I came from ATI. One of the first things AMD senior management promised in 2006 when they acquired ATI was to continue the quarterly all-hands meetings. They failed on the very first quarter after the merger. There hasn't been enough visibility of what's going on besides your own team.

Advice to Management

We need to come up with something exciting that energizes the company when the economy is bad and there is no quick solution to turning into profitability. Taking away benefits like movie passes and monthly donut day is not the best way to turn into profitability, anyways.

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