PoliticsMay 16, 2019
QualcommGoTAlgo?

AMD work culture for SW

How's the works culture @ AMD for SW people?

Nvidia buck25 May 16, 2019

You're like 3 years late to get that 10x on the stock... so joining now... 🙈

Qualcomm GoTAlgo? OP May 16, 2019

Nah. Tired of Qualcomm.

Nvidia buck25 May 16, 2019

I feel ya... is anyone rested @QC?

AMD aiguille May 16, 2019

Not very good as it is not part of the main business. SW folks are always the first in line for layoffs. I don’t recommend.

AMD derpaNet May 22, 2019

I don’t know what pipe you smoked from. But our entire line of dGPUs and APUs don’t run without a driver.

AMD aiguille May 22, 2019

I’ve been in AMD for a long time. During the rough times, SW folks were the first to be cut. It started from SW folks from tools, which were all outsourced to India now. then SW folks doing workload optimization. Then SW folks doing libraries optimization. Then SW folks doing compilers. They didn’t cut as much on HW side, besides validation and debug. I saw lots of friends leaving one after another from 2012 to 2015. Now times are much better, but nothing will remove from my memory having SW friends suddenly being lay-off one after another.