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On average, employees in Sunnyvale, CA at Advanced Micro Devices give their company a 2.1 rating out of 5.0 based on 32, whereas overall Average Rating of Advanced Micro Devices is 4.0 out of 5.0 based on 246 Advanced Micro Devices Review Ratings. The happiest Advanced Micro Devices employees in Sunnyvale, CA are ASIC Design Engineers submitting an average rating of 4.7 and Material Planners with a rating of 5.0.

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4.0
Average Rating
(based on 164 Advanced Micro Devices Review Ratings)

Ratings by Category

Company Culture
3.9
Growth Opportunities
3.6
People You Work With
4.4
Person You Work For
4.2
Rewards You Receive
3.9
Support You Get
3.8
Way You Work
4.1
Work Setting
4.0
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"AMD is a pleasant place to work. They treat their people well. There are good health benefits, a gym, and cafeteria on site."
Posted 9 years ago in Austin, TX

Working at Advanced Micro Devices in Sunnyvale, CA: 32 Employee Reviews

Advanced Micro Devices Employee

"Company is strapped for cash and they do not have resources to invest in employee development."

Person You Work For 3 / 5 People You Work With 4 / 5 Work Setting 2 / 5
Support You Get 1 / 5 Rewards You Receive 3 / 5 Growth Opportunities 1 / 5
Company Culture 1 / 5 Way You Work 2 / 5
Engineer

"AMD Corp was nice place to work as well at the other in the area. CEO change a lot. Hard to judge them.The key to a good department is have a good team to work with and I found that to be key. I am not sure what else I can say. Engineering department very interesting to deal with as well and dealing with international groups over seas."

Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 5 / 5
Support You Get 4 / 5 Rewards You Receive 5 / 5 Growth Opportunities 5 / 5
Company Culture 5 / 5 Way You Work 5 / 5

Company-Industry Rating Comparison

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Advanced Micro Devices (246)

4.7 Highest Rated in this Industry is Sigma Designs (5)
2.2 Lowest Rated in this Industry is Polara Engineering (6)
3.9 Average of All Companies in this Industry (20,231)
Senior Analog Design Engineer

"I've had a fine 3.5 years."

Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 4 / 5 Work Setting 3 / 5
Support You Get 2 / 5 Rewards You Receive 3 / 5 Growth Opportunities 3 / 5
Company Culture 4 / 5 Way You Work 4 / 5
Software Engineering Intern

"AMD is a good company."

What do you like about working at Advanced Micro Devices?

"A lot of talents there, a good team, good management."

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

"You should prepare well on OpenGL, OpenCL and graphics knowledge."

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

"Actually I like there best so far. But I did not get a full time opportunity there."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"I do not have suggestions for the management. They did good."

Person You Work For 4 / 5 People You Work With 4 / 5 Work Setting 4 / 5
Support You Get 4 / 5 Rewards You Receive 4 / 5 Growth Opportunities 4 / 5
Company Culture 4 / 5 Way You Work 4 / 5
Senior Design Engineer

What do you like about working at Advanced Micro Devices?

"The people I worked with are great, talented, and responsible."

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

"Know you technical stuff, but at the same time make sure the culture is a fit."

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

"The ability to move up while working remotely. The direction the company was going misaligned with the industry trend."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Better alignment of with industry trend. Provide more training to management about how to interact with remote workers."

Person You Work For 4 / 5 People You Work With 4 / 5 Work Setting 3 / 5
Support You Get 4 / 5 Rewards You Receive 3 / 5 Growth Opportunities 2 / 5
Company Culture 4 / 5 Way You Work 4 / 5
Material Planner

What do you like about working at Advanced Micro Devices?

"AMD was a great company to work for. The CEO (Jerry Sanders) had a vision and it was spread throughout the company."

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

"None, I am sure AMD is still thriving, whereas Spanison continues to struggle."

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

"I had no dislikes , working for Advanced Mirco Devices (AMD)."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"None, AMD management was the best. When the CEO left AMD split off to Spansion which had a totally different direction and set of visions that were not the same as AMD, even though they were the same people from AMD."

Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 5 / 5
Support You Get 5 / 5 Rewards You Receive 5 / 5 Growth Opportunities 5 / 5
Company Culture 5 / 5 Way You Work 5 / 5
Senior Product Marketing Engineer

What do you like about working at Advanced Micro Devices?

"The company that gave Intel the run for their Technology."

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

"Semiconductors is the only reason that you want to come here for."

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

"There was nothing to not like here. It was my first job."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"After 25 years you are still keeping the heat on the competitors."

Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 5 / 5
Support You Get 5 / 5 Rewards You Receive 5 / 5 Growth Opportunities 5 / 5
Company Culture 5 / 5 Way You Work 5 / 5
Senior Programmer Analyst
Person You Work For 4.2 / 5 People You Work With 4.8 / 5 Work Setting 4.7 / 5
Support You Get 4.7 / 5 Rewards You Receive 4.8 / 5 Growth Opportunities 4.8 / 5
Company Culture 4.9 / 5 Way You Work 4.8 / 5
Sustaining Engineer

"It is great to work this great company for the first job after college graduation."

Person You Work For 4.4 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 4.5 / 5
Support You Get 4 / 5 Rewards You Receive 4 / 5 Growth Opportunities 4 / 5
Company Culture 3.5 / 5 Way You Work 4 / 5
Senior Systems Engineer

"Great place to work (Gotta keep Intel on their toes!)"

People You Work With 4.8 / 5 Work Setting 4.9 / 5 Support You Get 3.9 / 5
Rewards You Receive 4 / 5 Growth Opportunities 3 / 5 Company Culture 3 / 5
Way You Work 3.8 / 5
Systems Analyst

"Very good experience working at AMD."

Person You Work For 4 / 5 People You Work With 4 / 5 Work Setting 4 / 5
Support You Get 4 / 5 Rewards You Receive 4 / 5 Growth Opportunities 4 / 5
Company Culture 4 / 5 Way You Work 4 / 5
ASIC Design Engineer
Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 5 / 5
Support You Get 5 / 5 Rewards You Receive 5 / 5 Growth Opportunities 5 / 5
Company Culture 5 / 5 Way You Work 5 / 5
Senior Design Engineer
Person You Work For 2 / 5 People You Work With 3.9 / 5 Work Setting 4.7 / 5
Support You Get 2 / 5 Rewards You Receive 2.7 / 5 Growth Opportunities 2.1 / 5
Company Culture 1.7 / 5 Way You Work 2.4 / 5
Software Engineer

"Excellent former experience at AMD."

Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 5 / 5
Support You Get 5 / 5 Rewards You Receive 3 / 5 Growth Opportunities 5 / 5
Company Culture 5 / 5 Way You Work 5 / 5
Production Engineering Manager
Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 5 / 5
Support You Get 5 / 5 Rewards You Receive 3.1 / 5 Growth Opportunities 4.3 / 5
Company Culture 3.1 / 5 Way You Work 5 / 5
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