Maxis Communications Employee Reviews & Ratings

Internal turf wars in recent years with lots of new teams acquired. One new site just had a few cancelled projects; Company acquired not grew its middle management over the last two years. Old timers are leaving.

Frequent OT and working on weekend are needed to accomplish assigned tasks and projects and no compensation will be given. Work-life balance is non-existent. Slow career progression in certain department despite working harder than others. Demoralising when you see your friend in other company promoted to manager or senior engineer while you are still a junior engineer. If you cherish your health and wants to have better career progression please look elsewhere. Building facilities are rundown and frequently breakdown.

Bonus is high but it can only be paid at a low discount ratio in the recently years b/c of company's low performance

Long projects , laid back work environment

a lot of re-org recent couple of years... team is short staffed, and need to work over time. Not every day, but maybe around 5 months out of 1 year.

Benefits; stocks; shift timings; parking

not competitive enough work environment.

Tired of explaining who AMD is to others! Tired of barely earning a profit or losing money every quarter!

Need more resources for development

no cons that I can think of

work is not that great. support kind of work

The pay at AMD is roughly average... The opportunities for promotion and growth at AMD is really low in my opinion. To be promoted, your manager has to put forth a lot of effort to prove to upper management that you deserve a promotion. Even if you have proven yourself in many occasions, they still use time as the main factor to judge your promotion versus your performance. The time you may have spent as a co-op at AMD does not factor into your promotion either. Also salary increases are really small and the bonuses are not that great

Close weeks are intense and need a better process

Political environment, hierarchical. , employees are treated as machines

AMD is a perennial loser Company has no direction.. too many products, one-size-fits-all mentality Low employee morale

Hired nd fired occasionally lo

overall, as of now, none

Compensation not upto the mark

Heirarchy, employee concerns handling, location of teams

Work-Life Balance sometimes difficult Reorganisation every 1-2 years

The investment in research is much less than its competitors.

Bonus allotments are improving recent times.

Average compensation less for long term employees

The Peter Principle is a belief that, in an organization where promotion is based on achievement, success, and merit, that organization's members will eventually be promoted beyond their level of ability Boy is this true for AMD's "management". A tech company that's run like an automotive shop floor. The idiot "managers" like to feel important and always thump their "authority" at every opportunity. Read review from Feb 4. If you stick around for long enough at AMD, survive a few layoffs, and wait out all the people with potential who leave for better jobs, you'll become management, and you'll have your own crop of rejects to boss around. AMD is a second rate company, because they hire and promote second rate people. This is especially true in psuedo-technical departments (software QA). Software QA has no scientific process, it's as if the whole company runs on "compile and run" testing methodology that college kids use in CS 101 when learning to program. The intranet site is crap, all the software tools, bug tracking system are 10 years old.

No work life balance Hard to get promotion

Very slow company with no direction

very unstable and alot of HR changes

The salary is not great compared to other companies in bay area. do not have free meal for lunch. The bonus is relatively small compared to other companies.

This is the worst company overall to work for. If you want stress, racism, politics, backstabbing, then join AMD esp the Server software team.

poor benefits and salary. No profit sharing

Challenges competing with the major in the pc computing environment

Business and financial stability. Struggling with business results, competition, markets. Several unsuccessful approaches to address new trends. Loosing position at core business

Bad management and goal setting

The company cannot consistantly perform in the black. It is sad because there are some great people at this company that continue to suffer through the threat of layoffs and years without raises.

fast speed company , less work life balance

No negatives to working here

Business not running well, seniors all left. Always layoff. No good product. Reorganize frequently.

Long hours, difficult promotion opportunity

The PC industry is declining

Large layoffs every year. CEO and Executive Management is very poor -- they don't know how to make the company profitable.

Low pay. Crammed office space.

Not much of career advancement for technicians.

Fast-paced, long hours, and stressful

Too much executive turnover & too much focus on cutting & the qtrly earnings each qtr.

Poor leadership - top down. Bad idea to bring positive change through negative energy (hate Intel only gets you that much and once that's out, there no fire in the belly)

Lot of legacy environments. Slow work pace.

poor management, need to make money, should be more agile, need a vision

Things are very slow. Some teams are not ready to change and use old Verification and design practices

The process can be overbearing for the size company that it is, but it works and management tends to be flexible.

Workload is extremely heavy. Constant deadlines to be met. Difficult to learn new skills outside of normal activities due to heavy workload. Career advancement is difficult and must wait years if desired.