AMD needs 1000 Developers with Linux Skills
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AMD needs 1000 Developers with Linux Skills
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Re: AMD needs 1000 Developers with Linux Skills
#2Beware of management employing 'impact' as a verb
Re: AMD needs 1000 Developers with Linux Skills
#3I do not work for AMD but am close friends with an AMD employee working in the Markham (Toronto) office. They enjoy their position considerably, but complain that the work-life balance isn't there. Just a note to those who are thinking of applying, but who are also seeking that balance.
Re: AMD needs 1000 Developers with Linux Skills
#4Interesting that they want to move into cloud & software products so aggressively.
What large hardware companies have done similar moves successfully in the past? (honest question)
Re: AMD needs 1000 Developers with Linux Skills
#5Interesting that they want to move into cloud & software products so aggressively. What large hardware companies have done similar moves successfully in the past? (honest question)
Cisco is working pretty hard to get their enterprise stuff out there (though really it's just part of a plan to drive more hardware sales).
Re: AMD needs 1000 Developers with Linux Skills
#6I wonder when this hiring is supposed to start, the jobs sure aren't on AMD's site yet: http://www.linkup.com/results.php?c=Advanced%20Micro%20Devic... (linking to my site instead of AMD's since our results are prettier than https://www.amd.apply2jobs.com/ProfExt/index.cfm?fuseaction=...)
Re: AMD needs 1000 Developers with Linux Skills
#7I do not work for AMD but am close friends with an AMD employee working in the Markham (Toronto) office. They enjoy their position considerably, but complain that the work-life balance isn't there. Just a note to those who are thinking of applying, but who are also seeking that balance.
As a European I always had the impression (from what I've read) that at most US-based IT companies there's not really a work-life balance. I currently work 40 hours a week and get 5 weeks of holiday per year (+ public holidays + sickdays) and that's already something where I think that the "life" part of the work-life balance is somewhat low.
So home much time do you have for your "life" if you start at, e.g., at a valley based company/startup?
Re: AMD needs 1000 Developers with Linux Skills
#8Notice the following "AMD says it maintains a start-up mentality even though it's a large company".
This is becoming a trend now, hardly the only company touting this. My current company is doing the same. My old company approached me recently and told me are going to start working in start-up mode in California, and this is an old and rigid company.
I'm holding Paul Graham, Joel Spolsky and others accountable for this. They have glamourized start-ups so much that these big and established companies have started feeling bad about themselves. Or maybe they have finally realized that big organizations and rigid processes don't work very well.
There are probably upsides to this. But the downsides are killing me. Obviously for large company working in start-up mode means that engineers work even harder, are more accountable and have to deliver to even more ridiculous schedules. And the result is even more chaos and avoidance of work and responsibility, more panic in QA, and so forth.
Personally I don't like this trend. If I want to work start-up hard, I will join a start-up and potentially become rich in the process. Working in start-up mode in a big company has so far meant that I work through weekends and don't get paid for that.
Re: AMD needs 1000 Developers with Linux Skills
#9Notice the following "AMD says it maintains a start-up mentality even though it's a large company". This is becoming a trend now, hardly the only company touting this. My current company is doing the same. My old company approached me recently and told me are going to start working in start-up mode in California, and this is an old and rigid company. I'm holding Paul Graham, Joel Spolsky and others accountable for th…
So find another job or another career. I'm not being mean: there are still jobs that are 40 hours per week. If those jobs don't appeal to you, switch careers and find a work-life balance that does.
People get exploited because they don't act on their other options. I work 40 hours a week.
Re: AMD needs 1000 Developers with Linux Skills
#10Notice the following "AMD says it maintains a start-up mentality even though it's a large company". This is becoming a trend now, hardly the only company touting this. My current company is doing the same. My old company approached me recently and told me are going to start working in start-up mode in California, and this is an old and rigid company. I'm holding Paul Graham, Joel Spolsky and others accountable for th…
If so, they seem to have appropriated the 1998 definition of "Startup".
Hiring 1000 people at once doesn't seem like the best way to maintain your startup's corporate culture, but it does seem like an effective way to burn through $250M in funding. All they need is the fooseball table in the middle of the dev space and they'll have that oldskool dotcom vibe nailed.