Spansion Reviews

Pros

Good people to work with, great campus in Austin.

Cons

Limited in technology applications. There only so much you can do with NOR flash.

Advice to Senior Management

Diversify

Pros

great team work
good management team
good working culture

Cons

company not stable, easily shut down

Pros

Dynmaic company, work with poeple around the world

Cons

The company always declines in revenues
Not much promoption
Occasionally there are layoffs

Advice to Senior Management

Leave the flash market...

Pros

Capable engineers, and nice work enviroment.

Cons

Work was very demanding. Little time for personal life.

Pros

Spansion has gone through a very difficult transition. It all started with the 2009 financial crash and led to firing of almost all the senior management, restructuring, selling extra facilities, bankruptcy then re-emergence. This has all been a positive path and was critical for Spansion in order to be as successful as it is becoming. New executive management is competent and driven to succeed. In most cases you will not be micro-managed at this company. This is good if you already have experience in the field and are a self starter. Pay is good and bonus plans are fair. Work/life balance is good. People at Spansion really do care and there exists a reasonable level of comradely and teamwork.

Cons

Understand the history of Spansion as AMD, AMD spinoff, and then bankruptcy then new company. There are alot of legacy AMD people/ideas that carry them down with excesses baggage and bad habits form the past. Be aware: In most cases you will not be managed very closely at this company. Often times more management interaction and leadership is needed for people that require more guidance. Senior talent that is not used appropriately, to much focus on the “past” and how the “good old AMD” days used to be. Leadership is needed to get people past that.

Advice to Senior Management

At Spansion there are lots of very talented resources. Not always clear concise direction on how to use those resources to better help the company. Tend to leave people alone and allow them to function at the comfort level they have managed to create around them. In some way this is de-motivating for some of those people and the people that see it. Work harder to create a more unified culture between Sunnyvale and Austin.

Pros

Salary and compensation is fair

Cons

no work and personal life balance

Advice to Senior Management

relook @ the work load of employees

Pros

good communication environment, enourage to learn more and deeper, cross function learning is encouraged, flexible work time and working environment

Cons

normal compensation, too many meeting occupy a lot of engineer time, promotion opportunity is less for middle level engineer, working environment is not very noisy

Advice to Senior Management

need have good view and leading instruction for the company's products and future, clearly explain the top management's idea to all employees

Pros

Opportunity to excel and try lots of different things. Great co-workers. Nice culture. Good benefits. Ability to be involved with many projects.

Cons

Financial instability made it challenging in 2009. At the time lay offs were demotivating. Lack of processes made the company more like a start-up.

Advice to Senior Management

Continue the great work in turning the company around. Lots of great progress looking in from the outside. Keep up the good work.

Pros

work atmosphere are good, people are fun.

Cons

no much headroom for your career update.

Advice to Senior Management

don't cancel the project at the last time

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.