Job Title: Sr. Business Analyst
Location: Sunnyvale, CA
Submitted on: 16-Jan-04
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Business Outlook
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Business Outlook:
If you need a job bad, this is a bad job for you.
AMD is famous for losing money hand-over-fist, and while the red ink
has been temporarily halted by massive layoffs, there's no room for the
company to grow without increasing its cost structure.
Competing against Intel head-to-head is suicide, and for every design
engineer/salesman/marketing genius AMD has, Intel has 20 doing the same
thing.
I've used my tenure at AMD to build marketable skills to take me
elsewhere, and have climbed the food chain with the attitude that it's
a temporary job. This has enabled me to keep my sanity.
If you look at any of the criteria - products, technology, execution,
morale, compensation, etc. - Intel whips AMD like a rented mule.
Employee morale is in the dumps - especially since the massive layoffs
of the past few years. Whole departments have been fired, with no (and
I mean no) regard for performance. Top performers get the ax too when
the whole departement is laid off.
The AMD experience is best summed up by a quote from a friend: "When I
first came to AMD, I thought it was a great company. As I learned more
about business, I realized that AMD wasn't a very good company, but was
a great company to work for. Now, it's not even that."
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