Spansion Reviews

Pros

New management is quite good.

Cons

Spansion needs planning for sustainability

Advice to Senior Management

Mid level managers are quite incompetent and some of them need to go.

Pros

Most employees are friendly and helpful.

Cons

Incompetent management. Some of the managers are disrespectful of those employees working for them. Frequent use of intimidation method. Very seldom give recognition or praise for a work well done.

Advice to Senior Management

Need to have a survey to gather the feedback from employees the performance of management. Take the necessary actions to make improvement on areas identified from feedback.

Pros

friendly and helpful coworker
not much competition within the group

Cons

very minimum training for personal development
unorganized management
very long working hours for some groups
company future is still questionable

Advice to Senior Management

increase efficiency by automating all manual process

Pros

good environment, nice peoples around, it is a work place i will miss in the future. very helpful colleagues and boss.

Cons

the managements seems like not good at control the company spending, and seems like the business is not so good, got a feeling of working on a sinking ship

Advice to Senior Management

please manage the company more systematically so that employee felt more secure working there. it is a good place to work, if it's financial more stable.

Pros

Good technology, State of the art approaches. Strong techical people.

Cons

Bad professional growth. Bad distribution of profit. No bonus packages. Below average salary.

Advice to Senior Management

Profit sharing needs to be distributed across all levels of employees.

Pros

I am confident that Spansion is all set to work towards becoming a great company to work for. I believe with the right mix of products we can once again conquer the memory market.

Cons

Too many old managers who are a little dogmatic and martinets.

Advice to Senior Management

Compensation packages should be evaluated especially for junior level engineering team.

Pros

Nice, dedicated people
Good competency at lower levels

Cons

Senior executive strategy was unfocused and unrealistic given the market
Old school, lousy facilities...grimy
Some legacy AMD leftover entitlement mentality

Advice to Senior Management

Focus on your core (perhaps they are doing this now)
Tell the truth
Don't over-commit to the street
Be realistic

Pros

Easy to work in company
Overall relax environment in doing work
Nice and smart colleague
Middle management are willing to listen what employee says

Cons

Very bad cash management in previous management
Too diverse project comparing to work force
Bad moral in current top management (raise their salary to make employee kicked without any support)

Advice to Senior Management

Make profitable company for long term surivival.
Not to be greedy to make their former employee miserable without any support.

Pros

Pay scale competitive and management treats employees fairly and with respect. Offers a challenging and face paced work environment.

Cons

As a "Memory Semiconductor" company, cash and profits will always be a struggle. Set Spansion career expectations for short-term employment. Keep resume updated and active. Poor CEO/management decisions put company in bankruptcy. Many empolyee's upset about short notice layoff in early 2009, but this is part of working for a company struggling to make a profit in a very tough market environment.

Advice to Senior Management

Avoid double standards with VP & Executives versus the rank and file. During the 2008/09 furlough days (and paycuts) there was a clear double standard as VP's were exempt from the paycut. Rank and file definately felt slighted and rightfully so.

Pros

Flexible work environment with great coworkers who were working hard to make the company profitable. Not much pressure in most roles, though a few roles were completely overburdened.

Cons

Upper level management made poor strategic decisions and ignored guidelines put in place to cut costs. Very siloed groups - poor communication between them. Morale was very low in workforce.

Advice to Senior Management

Take your own advice...cut costs for offsites, travel and exec perks like the rest of the company must. It demoralizes the work force to see the execs not taking their own advice.