Spansion Reviews

Pros

People were friendly, always willing to help. For a first job, everyone was courteous and fair. Also, there was a good work life balance.

Cons

The global financial crisis forced Spansion to declare bankruptcy. The senior level of management might have forced Spansion to take on too much debt.

Advice to Senior Management

For Bertrand, at least he was willing to pay back his severance pay when he left the company. For John Kispert, he did what he had to do when laid all the employees off.

Pros

Not much pressure, good relationship between employees, good salary, good location, good working environment. It meets most external requirements for an employee.

Cons

Always doubted the projects you are doing is meanningful or important enough to boost the company's business, especially when NOR Flash is going to its end life.

Advice to Senior Management

Focus on key business to keep major customers, and avoid price war with competitors to make a better survival. Keep going forward, you are returning back on track.

Pros

many interesting and challenging projects

Cons

compensation just so so, career development path not clear

Pros

Great coworkers...they're still my best friends today

Cons

Not a good environment for personal and professional growth, unless you're into the dealing with mediocre engineers and full blown bureaucracy

Advice to Senior Management

the employees know what's really going on...so dont patronise them and show them a little more respect than they deserve

Pros

In general, salary or compensation, in terms of base salary, was competitive. Also, the majority of the technical colleagues were generally intelligent and motivated.

Cons

Company was consistently unprofitable for a very long time. That disaffected the opportunity for extra compensation in terms of bonus payments. Strategic direction from upper management also appeared to be unclear, as projects were started and abandoned many times.

Advice to Senior Management

More strategic focus is needed. Management needs a better job of understanding the competitive and technological landscape, drivers, and evolution in order to place the correct bets for the success of the enterprise.

Pros

There are quite some cutting edge technologies for a engineer to learn and grow.
Comfortable team work environment.

Cons

Financial future is still not clear.

Advice to Senior Management

Keep the leadership in NOR technology.

Pros

It was a great learning experience: Spinning off from AMD, going public, building a company from the ground up- all great experiences.

Cons

Based on recent decisions, the new management team appears to only be interested in how they personally can profit. Long term, hard working and talented employees were terminated by management who appeared to care very little about their past contributions, in a very uncaring way.

Advice to Senior Management

It is very unfortunate that you are treating this company and the employees with such a lack of respect and concern.

Pros

Collegues, nice boss, good projects

Cons

former CEO's strategy and some product plans

Advice to Senior Management

Go head, support!

Pros

I think some of the pros for working here are good work culture, nice people and great balance between work and life.

Cons

The economic downturn last year hit Spansion badly. The instability and uncertainty over the future are definitely some of the cons for working here. But hopefully, with the new management and renewed focus, this might uncertainty go away in future.

Advice to Senior Management

The new management is doing a good job of keeping the employees in loop over the company developments. But the benefits and compensation could be better.

Pros

Dedicated and hardworking employees who have worked long and hard

Cons

Inexperienced and unskilled upper management, frequent organizational changes, no strategic direction.

Advice to Senior Management

Determine a strategic direction, hire upper management that have experience in the business and technology, stop blaming employees for your errors in judgement