Maxis Communications Employee Reviews & Ratings

Big company, everything is slooooow. Very difficult to collaborate between different teams. The teams are understaffed and overloaded. The company tries to save money on everything, so forget about travel, conferences, and conventions.

AMD hasn't had the best years lately and they have had some reduction in force

Good people leave every week. Not willing to bid for talented candidates. Known for low pay and like to stay that way even stock price is so much better. Immigration attorneys are very slow.

Work life balance is sometimes not well adhered to.

Stressful work place; Low salary; No life out side of AMD; Short deadlines

politics competent people no longer around focus is on contractors now, full-time employees who are performers are being neglected no recognition

less transparency about the scope of work

stressful when there's deadlines, needs better management

pay/bonus is bad. So not so pleasant

Brutal life and work balance

None that come to mind

No Allowance, no cab and cafeteria is small

Always catching up to Intel. Last 2 years have been a roller coaster what with all the layoffs leading to low morale. Projects often get canceled and there has been a constant reorg going on. This leads to a lot of uncertainty among employees as to what the next assignment would be.

startup-ish culture. Work life balance is absent

Bad executives. Slow in promotion. Wrong decisions are made.

gloomy business outlook management continually revokes frills (smaller cubicles, vacation days don't roll over...) almost no annual bonus due to poor company financials layoffs are almost annual

Management focuses too much on the short-term. People are no longer viewed as the most important resource owned by the company. Not enough attention is given to career development.

Company doesn't make money, doesn't pay bonuses and when they do they are small. No clear corporate direction.

1. Salary less compared to other product based company

flexible hours mean you work more from home in the middle of the night, management indecision causes schedule nightmares, the company is trying to do way too much with way to few people, every project is understaffed by 2x, over committed on features by 3x, and scheduled to be finished 6 months ahead of reality. No reverse feedback from employees to management so they are allowed to run open loop, as long as they look good to their superiors, then they get praise and promotions. Really, the way to get promoted is to screw something up so badly that there should be no choice but to fire you. But if you've kissed the right asses, you get promoted instead. There are also now as many VP's and PM's as there are engineers, no wonder we can't get anything done.

Space, on site facility, parking

Too many "home grown" employees squash innovation and improvements that could benefit AMD and help it mature into a world-class organization. There is a "not from here" mentality that prevents adoption of many excellent ideas and improvements. This attitude has stifled innovation and frustrated and neutered many excellent engineers that have been hired in recent years.

There are no cons to mention

Technically inept managers. Dumb management. Intersite struggle for power and politics.

Too slow to react to competitions

The pay isn't what is should be. There can be times when there is a lot of pressure. It sometimes feels like we aren't getting the resources we need.

not the best salary you can expect

-Bad Pay -Bad locations -Stiff competition from competitiors

More work less workforce, imbalance personal and professional life

too much team politics and finger pointing; poor management; management favorites are always heard and get away with doing the wrong things; recognition of employees based on those who speak loudest, rather than their actions; average compensation for large company; frequent overtime without compensation

The attitude and dedication of some of the employees gives you the feeling that they're only there to collect a paycheck.

As with any large company, changes can be bureaucratic when they should not be. Some things seem to be done certain ways just because they have always been done a certain way. Definitely not a small company or startup atmosphere.

The downsides of working for AMD are the employees are rather apathetic. During my tenure there, many were not passionate about their work nor seemed to want to put in the extra effort. The manager had a tendency to cancel weekly meetings.

- work gets repetitive and boring - tight deadlines all the time - lots of overtime hours without paid - documentations are messy sometimes

Lot of politics in team. HR recruiting policy is worst. Experience required for job mentioned in JD is only for eye shake, Less experienced people with referrals are place in that position and AMD paying more for them.

good work-life balance and as respect to this company I thing it should keep focus on just special directions

less number of employees and projects

have to fight for yourself for fair compensation constant stream of bad news (company losing money, etc)

There are no cons here

Tech can be a tough and brutal industry. AMD has some of the same craziness you see in that space

AMD pay is below market for software people. Frequent overtime and a chaotic environment make for a pressure cooker work environment. Interactions are sometimes contentious and unpleasant. The company's managers seem to depend on the systemic exploitation of labor.

work life balance could be better

it was sometimes a bit bureaucratic

Technically incompetent management. Bad planning and work division among employees. Lack of focus in projects.

1. Weak CPU products 2. Attempts to do too many things at once resulting in cancellations and roadmap changes 3. Too cash starved to invest in future technologies and initiatives 4. Time to market of CPU products is too long 5. Losing money for 3 years in a row is crushing morale

No decisions = more power points, less focus on customer.

Some very poor managerial skills in certain teams (middle management). No team building events or any importance assigned to such things. Management shows poor understanding of the fact that sustained high-pressure work environments can be demotivating, especially when zero-promotions/zero-merit-raises/pay-cuts are enforced. People who 'make' themselves visible just by speaking a lot in meetings and emails seem to benefit disproportionately (by impressing middle management) than those who make real contributions. This is another sign of technically incompetent middle management and demoralizing.

Management should come up and cheet up employeed

sonmetimes you are too busy to take care of your family.

Too much work, so many programs