Working at Advanced Micro Devices in Austin, TX: 88 Employee Job Reviews by Real Employee working in Austin, TX Area

"I enjoyed the work very much. The biggest frustration was with the poor decisions made by executive management when AMD was riding high with the K8. Things have changed a lot in the past 6 years and if the opportunity would present itself, I would like to go back."

"Great company. The reduction in size of PC market has forced the company to reduce costs to the point it is impacting work environment and productivity, and employee morale has been low last 2 years but is getting better. The department I was in, managers and principle technology leaders had been there 15+ years and were not planning to leave, and company was reducing number of leadership positions, so limited potential for advancement."

"An intern is well mentored."

"Very good company, with good culture."

"I have worked here as a co-op engineer and it has been a great experience."

"AMD is a company that has been through some struggling times lately. My role and manager are excellent but the company overall is very disorganized and continues to get more top heavy. There are frequent layoffs and management doesn't seem to understand our market or where to take the company in the future. I recommend this job if you are in desperate need for one or are just starting out in the business. If you are experienced and have a good knowledge of technology, this company will frustrate."

"Great company to work for and I really enjoyed my boss and coworkers. The company is struggling right now to find it's footings in the new portable device arena."

"Good working environment."

"Great."

What do you like about working at Advanced Micro Devices?

"I like the people, culture, and the training classes that are led by very knowledgeable people, and the technology is amazing."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"It is a great company to work for, if that's the work you like to do."

What don't you like about working at Advanced Micro Devices?

"I was living far from the campus, and Austin traffic is the worst."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"There has been quite a lot of leadership changes in the last few years."

"Great place to work. Loved my work in media and the high-profile accounts."

What do you like about working at Advanced Micro Devices?

"The customers in media and the products we used to create media for sales and marketing."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Be aware that this company has drastic fluctuations in the staff. Layoffs are a part of life."

What don't you like about working at Advanced Micro Devices?

"Being a multi-billion dollar company it was slow to react to the changing markets."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Make better product decisions by listening to the customer and not the internal teams."

"The tasks have been challenging and my co-workers have been excellent."

What do you like about working at Advanced Micro Devices?

"It's exciting to work with the latest generation of technology."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Be on your toes. The people that I worked with were very bright, and interviews tend to have programming questions."

What don't you like about working at Advanced Micro Devices?

"There were multiple layoffs, fear that your position is not safe."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Products don't seem to be competitive. Time to leapfrog the competition."

What do you like about working at Advanced Micro Devices?

"Great work environment and people are coperative and friendly. Great company to work."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"A good place to work except things keep changing frequently."

What don't you like about working at Advanced Micro Devices?

"Frequent changes to organization, and the roadmap keeps changing frequently."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"The company needs to have a clear vision of future products they develop."

What do you like about working at Advanced Micro Devices?

"Low stress, many smart people working there. Company culture is good."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"You don't necessarily need to ace the technical interview, but just show initiative."

What don't you like about working at Advanced Micro Devices?

"I wish the people I worked with were smarter and the company headed in a better direction. Politics seem to play into many decisions."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"I would focus more on growth in mobile and server markets. We don't have any good products coming out to compete with ARM or Intel when it comes to mobile."

What do you like about working at Advanced Micro Devices?

"Young culture, great people, smart people to work with, can be high pressure sometimes."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"If you're not coming into business or design, don't come here. You want perks and fast promotions. Go to design or another company. If you work for a company that doesn't make money, you won't see any money. And if you work for a department that doesn't drive future growth, you won't see any money."

What don't you like about working at Advanced Micro Devices?

"Poor execution, below-industry raises, bad hires, heavy management disconnect (favor people playing the politics game who are not really contributing). Want to move up? Brown nose and concur to what others say in meeting. Just act like you know what's going on when you really don't. For management, when times are bad, just cut your engineers because you're obviously not going to cut yourself."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Platform engineers do not get any significant rewards and pay bump. This is causing the high attrition rate. Every successful launch, the recognition goes toward design team. Recognize talented engineers and reward them, just like MSFT and GOOG who retains high talent. Execution is also very poor, with most of the decisions made by upper management. When upper management makes mistake, more engineers are cut as a result, thus leaving a top-heavy company. Lower level talented engineers are leaving."