Avoid CT-PD team at all costs - Senior Silicon Design Engineer AMD Employee Review

1.0
Jan 2, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

- Barely competitive salary structure. That's it.

Cons

- Very bad appraisals, appraisal percentages don't exceed single digit ever for CT-PD team. - Very incompetent management, managers will make your blood boil with their incompetence, with the onset of AI, these managers have started using it as a crutch for filling their knowledge gaps. It is very infuriating when such managers just copy paste an answer from AI for your technical doubts, these people don't have a brain of their own to use. - Utterly intolerable work life balance, management has openly declared that work life balance doesn't exist at all and is a myth, half of the team is in US time zone and following the Indian mentality of slavery, no manager has the guts to question anybody from the US team just end up being sycophants, so you as an engineer are forced to work in your local hours as well as US hours, so you can expect working all round the clock with no regards to your relaxation time. - I am not aware of culture at other teams at AMD, but I will surely not wish my worst enemy to work in the CT-PD team.

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4.0
Apr 13, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

It's a big company. So, a lot of great benefits and high pay. Also, a lot of opportunity for career advancement and internal transfers if a particular job/team doesn't fit (to avoid losing RSUs). Plus, they're not too hard on you regarding performance since all the performance reviews are qualitative rather than quantitative (that could be both a pro and a con, honestly).

Cons

It's a big company. So, a lot of bureaucracy. They get in the way of themselves requiring endless approvals for spending. Also small organizations within AMD being territorial about their particular domain rather than being as open as possible inhibits rapid progress. Also, pushing for "diversity and inclusion" is racist. They should ignore race, not try to have a representative sampling of the population. I give them a low score there because DEI is racist. But not minimal because it's only something the HR dept cares about, normal employees effectively ignore race from what I can tell. So even if management is woke, the company (the individuals) are not.

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