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This is my thought as well. Their devs who work on the graphics drivers are heavily underpaid in Canada. As an ex-AMD, I took AMD's offer for 20k less than anot
by osti 3y ago
This is my thought as well. Their devs who work on the graphics drivers are heavily underpaid in Canada. As an ex-AMD, I took AMD's offer for 20k less than another software company because I like low level stuff and have always been an AMD fan since the Athlon days. But when Amazon offered me double, I easily took Amazon's offer and left AMD after less than a year.
I think a lot of companies are overpaying their software people, but if there is any one that should pay their devs much more it would be AMD, because they are in a position to compete against Nvidia if their software integrated well with the AI training stuff.
- jrockway 3y agoWhy do you think that people are being overpaid if you literally left a job you liked to make more money? Being underpaid is just being underpaid; just because the numbers are high at the big tech companies doesn't mean that those companies are overpaying. They're probably underpaying! The dollar just isn't worth what it used to be. (Canada does chronically underpay its software engineers, though.)
- osti 3y agoNot going to argue whether we are being overpaid or not (I certainly hope we aren't because now I'm getting even crazier compensation than my Amazon days lol). But I think the current layoffs which are putting downward pressures on salaries will prove that we were getting overpaid. My main point was still that AMD should really pay a lot more than what they currently are paying, they actually already increased it quite a bit compared to 3 years ago, but not nearly enough! In a way, I think this reflects poorly on Lisa Su because she didn't invest enough into AI while it should have been obvious from the start.