Company details

Santa Clara, CA

HEADCOUNT

10000+

ORG TYPE

Corporate

SECTOR

Technology & Digital

WEBSITE

https://www.amd.com

About the company

AMD designs semiconductors and computing platforms used in PCs, gaming consoles, servers, and AI systems. The company’s best-known product families include Ryzen CPUs, Radeon GPUs, and EPYC server processors, plus adaptive computing products from the former Xilinx business. AMD sells to consumers through partner hardware makers and to enterprises and cloud providers for data center workloads. The company operates across research, chip design, software, and go-to-market functions globally.

Locations and presence

AMD is headquartered in Santa Clara, California, with major hubs including Austin (Texas), Markham (Canada), and large engineering footprints across Asia-Pacific, including India. AMD runs a mix of on-site, hybrid, and remote patterns depending on role and site, with employee-reported examples of hybrid schedules such as three days in-office.

Palpable Score

76.2

/ 100

AMD is a strong early-career target for students and recent graduates because AMD runs recurring internships and co-ops across regions, and AMD also posts “New College Graduate” roles rather than relying only on experienced hiring. The score is capped by uneven public transparency: AMD’s detailed job listing content is not consistently accessible without applying through the careers system, which limits what candidates can verify up front about stages, timelines, and pay across roles.

Pillar 1: Early-career access

Score

16.2

/ 20

The company runs a dedicated Students portal for internships and co-ops, and the portal materials describe a structured intern experience with mentoring, development sessions, and networking.

AMD hires interns year-round in AMD Research (spring, summer, fall terms), with internships explicitly set up around mentor-led projects and academic calendars.

The company does show “New College Graduate” hiring signals in role descriptions, but the public view of how many truly junior full-time openings exist at any given time is limited because many live listings are hard to review without direct access to the careers system.

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Pillar 2: Hiring fairness and transparency

Score

13.8

/ 20

The company has large-scale candidate-reported interview stage patterns (recruiter screens, one-on-one interviews, and skills tests) that suggest a repeatable structure rather than purely ad hoc hiring.

AMD has internship candidate feedback describing practical, role-relevant interviews (resume deep dives, OS and architecture questions, C/C++ debugging, and DSA screens) instead of long unpaid take-home projects.

The company also has candidate accounts describing disjointed follow-ups and team-driven timing, which makes the “what happens when” part feel less predictable across groups.

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Pillar 3: Learning and support

Score

16.7

/ 20

The company describes intern and co-op support that includes mentoring, personal development sessions, and opportunities to engage with employee groups and volunteering.

AMD publishes a specific mentoring model for AMD Research interns, including close mentor partnership, defined projects, and common outputs like publications or patents.

The company has intern feedback noting strong learning and team events, alongside reports that some teams can be too overloaded to coach interns consistently.

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Pillar 4: Pay fairness and stability

Score

14.9

/ 20

The company has externally visible pay ranges for some internship and co-op postings, including annualised salary ranges shared through graduate-job channels that mirror employer-provided information.

AMD publishes benefits documentation that includes concrete stability and development items such as an Education Assistance Program (with an annual reimbursement cap) and broad healthcare and retirement framing in the U.S. benefits materials.

The company does not consistently publish salary ranges across all roles and regions in an easy-to-compare way, so many candidates still rely on third-party pay datasets for benchmarks.

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Pillar 5: Early-career outcomes

Score

14.6

/ 20

The company states an intent to offer top-performing students a repeat internship or a full-time permanent position when available, which is a clear conversion pathway signal.

AMD receives very strong intern-specific satisfaction signals on major review platforms, including high internship ratings and “recommend to a friend” sentiment, which points to generally positive early-career outcomes in internship cohorts.

The company does not publish hard outcomes data like internship-to-offer rates, early-career retention, or promotion timelines, so it is difficult to judge progression consistency beyond reviews and scattered anecdotes.

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Useful links & resources

AMD Students: Internships and Co-ops AMD Research internships (mentor-based, year-round terms)AMD U.S. Total Rewards at a glance (benefits PDF)