Maxis Communications Employee Reviews & Ratings

Irregular work schedule. Would like to be doing more. Bit less than industry average pay

No Strategy lasts longer than a quarter. Management changes quickly, Everybody waiting for the change that doesn't arrive.

As with all big corporate companies, the most efficient use of its engineering team is to place them into unchanging roles that repeat again and again doing the same tasks.

Salary is a bit low

constant layoffs, managers don't know how to manage

Political to a large extent

Salary is not quite competitive

Nothing bad Really nothing g bad

a lot of work, next 5%,

Sometimes the work becomes monotonous

Company does not make money! Stock options are worthless. 401K match is sub-standard. Senior Management is not competent. All the IT systems are totally inadequate - its VERY FRUSTRATING when email goes down a few times a year for no apparent reason!

very distand #2; new formidable competitors (ARM)

IT at this company has been getting a lot of attention, but doesn't seem to be improving. They continually prove to be far better at creating obstacles instead of solutions. It's easily the #1 complaint of both new employees and veterans at AMD. I am surprised that the top executives and management of infrastructure and IT have survived this long.

good life balance have great time

Limited resource, high yield rate

Slow decision making rooted in too many decision makers.

Lack of communication from the management. Too many changes in project planning. Bonus plan is unpredictable.

Compensation could be higher; Compensation could be higher; Compensation could be higher; Compensation could be higher; Compensation could be higher;

Located outside of downtown Toronto.

Get bored easily in the role

Questionable and lack of direction by the company's leadership. 30% people are overwhelmed, but other people having nothing to do. Many people abuse work from home perk who only spend 2 or 3 hours access company email then out shopping and BS very busy. Lots of senior managers with very limited experience. BU leadership does not seem to understand the consequences of their actions. Many good engineers gone, products qualities is decline resulted in an large amount of sustaining activities.

Company is not making good profits.

Understaffed No overtime pay for extra work

long work hours and stressful

The pay is not much.

Compensation is significantly lower than competitors

Long hours, no overtime pay, blatant sexism and favoritism, yearly layoffs. Power struggles between the CPU and GPU (former ATI) divisions. Very difficult to get ahead in this company since it is in such a competitive industry and struggling to survive. Management don't want you to move forward, because they are stuck in their positions...some of them just sit there playing computer games all day, waiting for there package. Borrowing this from a September 4, 2012 review... "Psychopaths who cannot manage their emotions and don't know how to behave in professional environments. Everyone will try to assert what little authority they have over you." Read the September 4th review...very accurate.

Bad management and there is always a downsizing somewhere

HR is a joke @AMD. Managers have all the control, from hiring to salary discussion n bonus. Small organisation, no strict policies New comers get paid more and also get fired because no roadmaps aligned for them Too many diversions from roadmap

Because of politics and favoritism most of the times even though work is excellent there is less motivation. Pay wise they do poor compared to any other silicon company and we can’t even ask for good pays. Promotions are stalled only if manager is a partial person. As Chinese team is involved they are trying to get Asian culture into the team where no one says no to boss even when he is wrong . I work at Orlando site and if you are getting a better opportunity else where please do go there AMD no doubt looks cool from out but is worst place to be in

lacks perks like in similar companies

1. Management is poor , improvement in progress 2. Compensation is less compare to other similar org

Constant lay offs cause instability

not enough opportunity, a bit boring

Employees in design are not that strong technically compared to US teams.

We take risks over time and we are currently at an inflection point that coupled with recent delays makes the company a bit uncertain. If the company does not return to profitability in 2nd half of 2008 there will be much darker times ahead.

Company financial position not great

-Long working hours for not that great compensation -Some "dead wood" because of lack of rigorous performance reviews -Executive management lacks leadership

senior middle management are still sticking to old practices (risk avert, light touch or no touch, over political, incompetent in new technologies or inspiring management) which potentially discourages reform of this company, and potentials of teams. Still short of visions and long term strategies.

can be work overtime. hard to find the write document.

You can get stuck working long hours on projects with a tight schedule that have not been planned out too well.

Always the underdog. Despite cutting edge technology, we've been behind the competitors financially, and that makes things worse. The outcome of your effort and investment hasn't always been what it ought to be.

There really is too much nepotism. There really is not too much process not there rightly or wrongly. There really is way too much politics. You really do need to be on the hardware team to be respected at all. Being in Software is being on the second class team.

The company can't seem to make money. Products are constantly canceled. Schedules constantly shift. Responsibilities and ownership for common stuff is often unclear. Lots of schedule chicken and passing the buck. Decisions often don't get made at all, or at best they are delayed until the last possible moment.

As with any large corporation, there are re-orgs without much warning or communicated rationale that is tangible and figuring out how to work cross-functionally is left to managers and below. That means make the most of how to get work done and create process where you find there is none. Director and above jobs seem to typically be filled by going outside the company with a few exceptions. HR and execs seem to know this but have yet to do more internal candidate grooming.

none that comes to the mind

Poor bonus and compensation for employees

Among several managers, some are way better than others and are a lot more down-to-earth rather than holier-than-thou. A long term experience here would depend highly on your manager.

Work life balance. Canadian branch (ATI) knows how to maximize employees creativity and commitment by encouraging entrepreneurialism, but U.S. branch (controlling most of AMD) has stifling influence due to excessive process and reporting requirements. Counterproductive to accelerating product introduction pace.

other financial benifits are low