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No longer a company run by engineers

Software Engineer
Current Employee
Has worked at AMD for less than 1 year
March 17, 2013
1.0
Doesn't RecommendNeutral OutlookNo CEO Opinion
Pros
  1. You will get to work on some of the best-in-class technologies.
  2. Money if you have the right skills.
  3. Work-life balance.
  4. Culture among engineers is good. But unfortunately, the managers don't seem to understand what their engineers can achieve.
Cons
  1. It is a trigger-happy management, especially when throwing away valuable engineers.

  2. In my experience, the head has no accountability. They promise a lot and do nothing. Some requests were pending for 1.5 years, even after promises of completion within a month's time.

  3. The management retains submissive people.

  4. I find senior engineers refusing actual engineering work and instead expect a couple of folks to work under their useless guidance to usurp the visibility that the low-level engineer should be getting. They are also not technically good enough to be called seniors.

Advice to Management

Please put the company before yourselves and your position.

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