Maxis Communications

slow paced at times due to amount of red tape

- There are sooooo many useless people that don't care about their job, but management never disciplines them or fires them - A lot of "old guard" that have let their skills run completely out of date but have decided they will continue to ride the gravy train to retirement - There is something seriously wrong with the way the entire QA process. You can see it in forums that AMD notoriously releases buggy chipset firmware, driver software, etc with issues that should've easily been caught by QA. - Often times projects that you work on will get axed for no apparent reason, leaving you with months and months of effort that is never used for anything - It's difficult not to notice the insane gender imbalance. I get the tech industry as a whole has this issue, but there were less than a dozen women on a floor with several hundred guys. It's 2019, people...

Many people only knows intel and not AMD

-The company is a mess. Upper management is there just to collect the $ and have no real intention to turn around the company (for starters, google "AMD Rasgon bonuses" and click on the Yahooo article) -Employees are treated like idiots. We are promised a never-ending list of things that are oh-just-around-the-corner and never happen: more share in emerging markets, the emergence of a semi-custom business (fancy way to describe two game console wins), gaining market share back from NVIDIA (according to Lisa Su in 2014 "there is no reason why AMD's graphics share should not be 50%", it now stands below 30%), and so on. Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me (and then I leave) -Constant layoffs plus attrition = scarce engineering talent. It is very difficult for AMD to come up with good products considering the amount of good people who left, and the fact that they have been replaced by so-so engineers since top talent will land elsewhere -Morale is low. The parking lot is almost empty by 6.30pm. You meet strangers and five minutes they are openly making fun of the company. The ex-CEO is laid off and given $5M in cash but people do not see any salary raise when they are promoted. -As the result of all of the above, AMD's technology understandably is way behind, which results on a death spiral: less revenues -> more losses -> more layoffs -> products are delayed -> products are no attractive by the time they hit the market -> less revenues

Nothing really, its all good

Management and work culture sucks

upper management problem - no direction

don't expect guidance from management for growth beyond the current position; use the work/ live balance, down time and flexibility to develop your own plan of growth, execute it, and give management the option to get on board or out of the way.

Compensation not competitive, Need to revisit the pay strutted. Also may broaden her product line, and invest more on new area

It is missing diversification at all levels of employment