GLOBALFOUNDRIES Reviews

Current Employee – been working at GLOBALFOUNDRIES full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – - Some very good engineers
- Strong ambitions (but when are just ambitions enough?)

Cons – - Bad execution
- Gross misunderstanding of engineer's capabilities - which results in capable engineers ending up with wrong managers/projects
- Top-level management doesn't seem to have a clue
- Mid-level managers dont have good people skills

Advice to Senior Management – Learn to have a "detailed" technical vision
Fix mid-level management

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at GLOBALFOUNDRIES

Pros – New Company. Good for networking.

Cons – Awful, terribly managed. Managers do not understand american culture.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at GLOBALFOUNDRIES full-time for more than a year

Pros – It was a good paying job

Cons – Incompetence at the management level is absurd.

Advice to Senior Management – Hire management from experienced 300MM FABS, what you have in Malta, NY is all the 200MM leftovers from the major layoffs of 2008-2009. There are many competent employees there but they are drowned out by management who think they have relevant experience. I have never worked in a environment with some much micro-management. Good luck!

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at GLOBALFOUNDRIES full-time for more than a year

Pros – Nothing at all but competitive salary

Cons – Horrible management. Most of them are from failed companies and they lead to fail.

Advice to Senior Management – You are repeating the same as you did in your previous companies that failed. You are doing the same here. What do you think the outcome will be? Obvious, isn't it?

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at GLOBALFOUNDRIES full-time for more than a year

Pros – -High tech industry
-Local work (most people need to commute to NYC from this region)
-Matches 4.5% if you contribute 6% to 401k

Cons – -Preferential hiring of foreigners to higher paying positions. The vast majority of engineers, senior engineers, and senior managers, are foreign.
-No internal promotion, although you CAN perform lateral transfers after 12 months.
-Advertised referral bonuses are rejected by management after the other person is hired.
-High senior management turnover
-Safety last mentality. Elevated work with no fall protection allowed, emergency showers and eyewash stations with no drains, or adjacent to high voltage power boxes and receptacles.
-Irregular splitting of hours to prevent paying overtime. If you work 7pm Saturday until 7am Sunday, the work day is split into two separate pay weeks.
-12 hour shift workers receive less breaks, less sick days, less vacation days, and more mandatory overtime than standard day shift personnel.

Advice to Senior Management – -Please leave your cubicles and actually go into the work area to reconnect with the workers and work conditions
-Make calm , level headed decisions, based on facts and not rumors.
-Listen to the feedback from your employees, they genuinely want to improve conditions and cost efficiency.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at GLOBALFOUNDRIES full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Excellent technology, good research capabilities, smart people are prevalent in technology and manufacturing areas. Great for upstate New York and local economy and the fab in Malta is the most advanced facility of its kind globally. Cafeteria is high-end.

Cons – Work-life balance doesn't exist, for an open space environment there is not a lot of collaboration and email is used way too much as the primary form of communication. You walk around and not everyone is enthusiastic, they are hard at work but there is a culture that exists where employees are on edge. There have been several leadership changes at the executive level and it is highly political and driven by Singapore and Milpitas. If you join GF, you will work a lot of hours, nights and weekends and the company does not truly value its employees - its greatest asset.

Advice to Senior Management – Listen to your employees, a lot of innovative ideas exist in the rank and file, not just at the senior leadership levels. Reward employees and allow them to have better balance. Retention is going to be a challenge and that needs to be the focus moving forward. Business functions need more autonomy to be part of the decision making process. Malta has lost some highly talented individuals in Finance, IT, HR, Sales and Support. There is a reason why this happened.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at GLOBALFOUNDRIES full-time for more than a year

Pros – Nice area of NY to live and raise a family. I was issued a cheap coffee mug for which to drink my "free" coffee and water with.

Cons – Management rules through fear: in meetings they single out 1 person, and hammer them into submission so that others will fear the management team. The Fab environment is terrible! The working conditions are hot and sweaty, and there are no concessions to Fab workers. 5S and protocol are out of control with no accountability. There is no trust or respect for the Technicians no matter how many years of experience they have.

Advice to Senior Management – Ajit - get rid of site management, they are running the place into the ground!

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at GLOBALFOUNDRIES full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Great potential as a technology powerhouse. Chance to work on the best semiconductor technologies. Great diversity. Good bonus plan (if paid). If you are hired as an executive, good place to work.

Cons – A foundry company with no one in the top management has any foundry business experience. Only executives (director and above) get pre IPO stock options or equity grant. Bonus and merit increase seldom get paid. 24hour work culture, totally a slave drive. Totally disorganized. IT and HR is one of the worst in the industry probably. Top management is all from Freescale and former Philips with no vision and clear direction. Compensation and other benefits are not competitive at least in the Silicon Valley. Lot of politics and favoritism. Terrible work culture, run like 3 different companies across Singapore, Dresden and USA.

Advice to Senior Management – More of an advice to ATIC and the investors. Please bring someone with significant foundry experience at the top management. Currently this is a place for old Freescale and Philips guys to step up their career ladder with no vision or direction. Be employee centric rather than a sweat shop to attract and retain top talent. Offer good benefits and equity/stock options to all employees rather than just an executive centric company.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at GLOBALFOUNDRIES full-time for more than a year

Pros – Had potential but faded in the last 6 months... Some of the top employees in the world work here and with the right tools could make this a very successful company.

Cons – They forgot why they hired the experienced/ best people in the industry and moved them to NY. Initially, the employees had lots of input and things were going well. In the last 6 months, attitudes have changed and employees are not utilized to there full potential. Morale is at an all time low. The new moto is "don't think or give your input, just do what your told" so now things are falling apart.

Advice to Senior Management – When an upper management tells the employees to "suck it up" (after working so hard and not given any raises), it's not good for morale. You should value your employees and make them feel appreciated. You have a lot of awesome employees who have given up on trying to make it a "world class fab" because they keep running into brick walls called management.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at GLOBALFOUNDRIES

Pros – Good pay and benefits are satisfactory

Cons – No one knows what is happening in the fab!! Very short handed but work is expected to be done in secs..Very stressful job, Even if you put lot of hours 11hr a day, do not be surprised for a bad review!! Expect calls at 2AM on weekends for silly reasons
No co-operation between Engineering and Operations group
No employee is happy and most of them are leaving the company within 6mnths-1yr..

Advice to Senior Management – Management should hire more people on floor and find better solutions to get work done faster and easy. Working on Reports and dashboards will not drive the company further...

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend