AMDAnon

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   by AMDAnon 11mo ago

   > considering how well it appears AMD is executing from the outside. The party line is that the stock price is up because the market expects us to perform well in the future, and we won't get a bonus until we actually perform well.
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   by AMDAnon 11mo ago

   > I definitely got yelled at over trivial performance regressions which looked like noise so people were measuring performance. It depends on team, we have some testing, and progress is being made. But it's not "working" o
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   by AMDAnon 11mo ago

   > constantly scrapping things and starting over and thus the ecosystem never matured AMD hires talented people at below-market and doesn't promote them or give raises. This causes employees to aim at resume-driven development by rei
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   by AMDAnon 11mo ago

   The MBAs have always been in charge to an extent. But the real issue is we don't want to invest in beating Nvidia on quality. Otherwise we wouldn't be doing stock buybacks and instead use the money on poaching engineers. The minds
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   by AMDAnon 11mo ago

   AMD pays the bare minimum in software to get a product out the door. The company does not even have working performance testing and regressions routinely get shipped to customers. Benchmarks the executives see are ad hoc and not meaningful.