Maxis Communications Employee Reviews & Ratings

being the underdog almost all the time, the company constantly in surviving mode, which means layoffs, budget cuts, pay cuts or freezes, priority changes, etc.

Layoffs have become part of the culture now and are expected. The most proactive people take charge of their own careers and find something somewhere else before what seems like the inevitable happens. Overburdened with procedural details with an unwillingness to do anything differently than was done in the past.

Management is the worst I've seen

Disparity in pay between different employees

Business wasn't good. Low bonus.

Work-life, Challenging, Legacy code, New grads

Slow on adapting new technological trends

subpar compensation, career advancement very team dependent and limited in general

NO bonus future does not look bright

Workload can be a lot for the pay and benefits

- Managers are worthless (including senior managers) - Managers don't own the team- they are working as zombies.. - Team activites have gone down compared to few years back.

Somewhat Chaotic, Upper Management Problem, discommunications

Only Re-locating was not efficient for me.

This company has not much new strong products until now to compete with other strong companies.

Too much bureaucracy, too many managers

Moral and job security is low. Too many useless report without a real target for change or improvement

Major Issues with ethics and compliance in the old guard (before 2011). Extreme examples of conflicts of interest

payed low, almost no perks those down years

None atleast as of now

There are perspectives to this answer. As a technical engineer, the sky is the limit assuming your performance is solid. However, for the non-technical employee, it is very difficult to move upwards into senior ranks.

The internal workings of AMD are a complete mess, the management does not know what they are doing and treat the employees very poorly. Extremely intelligent people are denied the promotions and raises that they deserve, and those that get them generally get them by brown-nosing management.

High turnover especially in upper management doesn't inspire confidence.

Too many non-technical seat warming Managers in CPU engineering team.

Company not doing too well at the moment

Top heavy on the management side. Very sad that the company is completely miss managed (started with Hector, got better with Dirk, now it's worse than before).

Understaffed in many areas. Management did not seem to be in touch with the difficulties of the day to day work going on. The environment of multi-site splitting of projects and staff made ongoing cooperation difficult. A feeling of a very reactive company to attempt to fill the needs of the marketplace, especially trying to catch up to competition. A culture based on reward and recognition and individual accomplishments, which translated to a culture where sharing of knowledge seemed to be restricted.

The working content is a bit boring and not that challenging as I am an intern. Don't see too many spaces for promotion.

Management's focus is unclear Too independent No direction given and must seek a direction without much guidance sometimes Very reactive

It is a big company that is spread over many countries (many time zones, languages). Management is completely focused on getting the next products out the door and does not care about employee career development.

As expected , benefits are not as great as it used to be when company was making money.

not enough funding and poor advertisement.

Lack of opportunities to transition roles

upper management seems to have all the power and take all the credit on certain teams

Management should work close with junior employess

product roadmap is changing which causes some concern

Nothing! The company is growing and it's a great time to work here

- doing more chips less innovation, lot of times completed projects does see production - there is no work - life balance - can learn a lot but hectic schedules make it impossible

There isn't a manager in the bunch worth a damn wooden nickel. It's an environment of fear. Speak out of turn, consider yourself gone.

Bad execution of all products........

Recognitions do come but are untimely. This led to high attrition over the last couple of years.

The amount of work is highly variable - one week can be very slow, and the next week can be very hectic. PEYs are not asked to work overtime or weekends, although many regular employees here do.

Everything is good. No cons

Overall company picture not very solid

Too many re-orgs, Teams works very well within themselves but lacks the coordination needed between them

Lots of egos on design side of things Toxic teammates, not friendly, just there for business

too much issues and there are some people who are hard to deal with

I wish the company was doing better.

the usual cons - slow to execute

lacks organisation and long term direction

Can get very hot Sometimes repetitive