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Mixed Team, Underappreciated Dev

Software Engineer
Former Employee
Worked at AMD for less than 1 year
July 20, 2011
Austin, Texas
3.0
No CEO Opinion
Pros

There are some very capable technical people, but there are just as many doing little and hanging on. Austin is more affordable than CA.

Cons

Software development is considered less valuable than hardware.

There is a bit of a silo mentality, which creates competition between teams that should be working together.

Advice to Management

It seems that the board is clearing out the old guard and is making way to bring in people that will do better than just copy Intel. But we will see...

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