Maxis Communications Employee Reviews & Ratings

Hostile executive staff, especially CEO. No work life balance, expect to work 24/7. Don't believe the job descriptions, you will do whatever they tell you.

-Long hours -Incompetent middle management -Too much red tape to get anything done. -Consistent financial woes, layoffs

Business is suffering greatly and layoffs are occuring on an annual basis if not more often.

Corporate environment and a little boring

Sometimes too much time spent debugging

Company constantly in some form of crisis; 5 CEOs in <10 years; Inordinant amount of wasted energy on cancelled/redirected projects; Bonus payouts spotty and rarely close to target; layoffs (nearly) like clockwork in the Fall

Terrible management, especially PM teams

Senior management is completely incompetent. Revolving doors for execs, no continuity in management or strategy, always reorganizing, persistent cash crunch. Morale is terrible. Many employees just trying to lay low to keep their paychecks.

The rest of the world does not have an accurate and bjective perspective on the company. There is a lot of misleading and downright false information out there. Do your own research.

Direct level and second level managers could use some work with their soft skills.

Practices followed are not what world class company would follow

The merit increase is about 1.5-2.5%. The bonus is not much for engineers despite company's good performance in recent years. In general, incoming new hire benefits a higher salary than internal ranked up employees.

Benefits were not at par with other companies

Its not located in centre of Bangalore

push push push push push

Almost no orientation for new hires (comparing to similar companies like Intel or Microsoft), no free soft drink and messy toilets (which I consider essential when evaluating the work environment), pushing-environment (too many after hours, no after hour fees, bad work/life balance)

Many, lack of collaboration and communication.

Nothing in particular to list as a con

too much competition, you are a fish in a sea

Compensation/Perks/Bonuses are below average. For the longest time, you won't find a substantial difference in your compensation.

Too much layoff which force lots of smart people leave. This is definitely a PAIN for a company in Silicon Valley. Especially, most directly join your competitors.

- pay lower than industry average

so many level management level. and more team.

understaffed product line not consistent with what people want not going into mobile space not enough money to buy all the lab equipment needed do not provide laptops to everyone

he Company has been in "transformation" for several years now, resulting in multiple and continuous budget and operational cuts.

less improvement opportunity because AMD doesn't do a very good job in the market

Senior management is disengaged with everyday employees, and it does not appear they are capable of projecting AMD beyond its status as an Intel also-ran. More bad news comes out of AMD than good these days, and it is becoming hard to see that changing in the near-term.

Management can be political, a sweat shop, not a lot of accountability, tough to get things done

Depressing, no time to innovate, no time to think, all decisions are about cost and how to stay alive in the short term.

Potentially (very) bad work/life balance because projects are often executed at too many sites. A lot of off-hours conference calls and work. Customer satisfaction is not a high priority at AMD. Continuing financial challenges make people to focus on internal matters rather than customers. Too frequent changes in product roadmap and plan.

No clear path to revive this struggling company. Plans always shifted from high-level management. Company as a whole are not doing well.

Too many meetings that can be avoided

Lousy workspace in the corporate office. Some of the managers have horrific people skills, with one-dimensional ideas on what it takes to motivate. No significant pay raises in years. Too much work to do anything well.

No Job security. No road map. Management is biased.

not much growth , promotions are very slow.

Can't think of any cons

Some teams have many members working on similar projects and tasks while some teams are stretched thin.

Too much work load is there

stability is a problem in this market

Absolutely no focus on top talent development/leverage...the only difference is comp (slightly) Weak at project/program execution Banjara Hills facility is just average

No cons so far everyone was friendly

Stack ranking is a horrible review system, the stories I have read about Microsoft stack ranking sound very similar to my experience at AMD.

Still new management for Penang side and unmatured decision

Extremely limited opportunities for advancement

As with the rest of other companies that are thriving----schedules always CHALLENGING

Senior leadership at AMD is severely lacking. Decisions are not made in a fashion intended to build a sustainable business, but rather to appease the Wallstreet analysts. Little if any input is sought from those employees who know 'root cause' of problems, and when employees bring issues to management they are ignored.

little work-life balance, many people are over worked for an extended period of time and burnt out. the management is doing little about this and some great people have left the company as a result.

very bad management and too many wrongly executed projects cause morale to be very low. sometimes management has no clue what is happening and make many mis cues to cause the company to fail.

but trying (unsuccessfully) to solve cutting-edge problems with off-the-shelf solutions. The team I belonged to was essentially reduced to application engineers providing support rather than innovators. Career development opportunities within the company were non-existent.

work load (poor work life balance) too frequent re-orgs