• candybrie@lemmy.world
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    10 days ago

    If you want to work in AI, they’re hiring. The layoff was sold as a way to make room for more AI headcount.

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      as someone who works at AMD and on AI, this is only kinda true. While we’re not as affected by layoffs, AMD has been extremely stingy with budget this year. Maybe that will change in the coming months though

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        9 days ago

        As someone who works at AMD not in AI, that’s how they explained it to us. Or I guess it was a bit more generic “highest growth areas” and “still hiring for positions aligned with our strategic priorities.” Which we generally took to mean AI based on the gestures broadly at the market.

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          hmmmm, seems like everyone’s getting fucked regardless then. I’m working on next gen MI stuff and it’s pretty hard to even get a req right now. Management hasn’t mentioned the whole “strategic priorities” thing to us, probably because if we’re not a priority, then who is? AMD didn’t really do a lot of firing before now, at least not that I’m aware of, so maybe this is how they’re explaining it

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            Yeah. I’m surprised they took from MI. Management was just complaining last week about how hard it is to hire RTL people and trying to juggle us around to all the generations and variants that need to be staffed. And then this week it’s this. Maybe it is how they fire people; I haven’t heard of anyone else being fired besides this layoff in the ~4 years I’ve been there.