Maxis Communications Employee Reviews & Ratings

While the change is in progress, one group in the company may achieve something, such as a software application, that remains unknown and unused by the rest of the company.

Too much favoritism. Employee performance is not properly assessed or rewarded.

Poor senior management just in it for padding their own pockets while the ship sinks Shrinking piece of a shrinking high tech pie A company in decline with a very uncertain future

Company is not performing well that keeping losing market

Upper management is destroying the company. Projects are canceled or redefined on a monthly basis. Decisions cannot be made without weeks of debate. People have so little trust in management that they seem to be doing the bare minimum to avoid the next round of layoffs or until the company goes under. Now some managers are being eliminated, but the ones who put them there are still on the loose. The company really seems to have completely gone from an engineering driven company to a marketing driven company, and we are paying the price.

Many silo managers who have been in the org for decades

Need to simplify the global matrix, keep functions orthogonal, local, and contained

- Hard work and commitment means nothing when it comes to layoffs, which is common here at AMD - Product delays are common which could lead to it being scrapped.. so when the ship sinks, make sure you are not on board

Lots of downside than upside

other than brand rest of the benefits or other aspects of the company are on par with the industry's standard or below the standard. Especially considering that the outlook is not good.. it is a good idea for freshers to look out for some company that has good outlook..

Company laid off many employees and is struggling to compete. Lack of job security. Compensation and benefits are ok -- not top of the market by any means.

Career development is very poor since management does support the process. Once employees are laid off, regardless of performance, AMD does not appear to encourage rehiring.

Changes course a lot. Didn't have long term proper planning until recently. Very high turn over. Lots of changes in management and personnel leading to confusion internally and among partners and customers.

Toxic/Agressive (Chief Sales Officer) Poor sales culture across certain regions. Minimal support from operations or HR to protect employees. No field support for sales in certain regions.

Too many leaders and corporate mess

Last few years has been limited career opportunities. Many politics taking place in a company that is losing marketshare and not enough time to focus on making great products.

AMD doesn't have time for trial-and-error and senior leadership is highly reactionary, a bad combination in an industry where it takes years to design and build a product

can get quite stressful with pressure

everything else. things look to be turning.. but at the time, there was no vision. people running the show have no vision either, more reactionary

AMD gives a poor total compensation.

company wasn't doing well at an overall level

Perks are not that great. Promotion are slow. Consistent layoff were a matter of concern, doesn't help to build faith in management.

low RSU (stock) compensation / no free food

Management is at a loss and lacks focus. Money is limited so not much room for career improvement. Too much time spent on meetings.

Management direction and technical knowledge needs to be better. Management needs to move to allow the advancement of talented young employees. More accountability among management and employees.

Repetitive organization restructuring happenes no security to job

Nothing which I can think about

Benefits are pretty terrible. Culture way too siloed and not a lot of efficient collaboration across teams.

AMD is not doing well. Getting squeezed out of "relevance" from Intel on high end and Arm on the low end. Arm is selling into the servers now, managements response is we will buy Calxeda and dominate the space... not a good strategy to me.

Can be more technical and well defined.

Poor communication from the management Some management is disconnected with the employees

1.No transperency 2. No proper knowledge transfer

Does not offers competitive salary

Weak upper level management, did very little to retain technical contributors. Not enough effort to train new people. None to very little directions.

No any cons but can employ more people in india

GameStop and i love it

Some teams have unhealthy cultures: some are documentation-free, some are led by bullies. A few entire teams are deadwood. Some very senior bullshitters have built empires for themselves, and you don't want to cross them. Some parts of the company are an old-boy network, and some of the old boys don't hardly deserve their privilege. Revolving door senior management. Revolving door strategic plans. Annual layoffs and titanic-deck-chair-rearranging exercise. There are big upcoming debt payments, so a major future restructuring seems unavoidable. There's been brain drain, and less mature people have been promoted to fill the gaps, this has led to coworker quality issues on some teams. No accountability. Nobody ever gets in trouble for missing deadlines, low quality deliverables. It's good enough right? AMD can be democratic in the worst way. We can't do something unless everyone agrees, but we have to keep talking about it if anyone wants to do it. So there are a lot of "efforts" where 25 people get called to a weekly meeting to discuss some vague future process improvement which never goes anywhere. To survive, you have to develop a good sense of which efforts are fictitious and ignore them or decline participation.

salary not competitive sometimes not good wlb

Not a lot of room to grow.

Some teammates are not very skillful and lost faith in the company

-long nights and overtime - very competitive

Management could be more employee friendly.

- Getting help from separate teams is a little challenging - Some older products' support teams are based in different time zones which makes things a little hard

Layoffs occurred rather frequently in the past

slow sometimes; teams are too isolated.

Lots of change, competing with Intel is like fighting a gorilla on steroids who makes up all the rules of the fight. But Intel increasingly less relevant to AMD's future.

Very tough industry making it hard to succeed

AMD has still way to go before competing against microprocessor giant like Intel. It will take a few years before it reaches its prime

Very low compensation, very low perks and privilege

Worst Senior Executives drive AMD down the drain