Spansion Employee Reviews about "upper management"

Pros

Had a good manager. Various systems and processes in place. Promote continuous improvement. Some good legacy from AMD.

Cons

Mid management too worry about themselves and suck up to the upper management. Constant pressure on cost reduction. Relatively high turnover rate. No internal transfer opportunities.

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.

Pros

Immediate middle managers are respectful to engineers. Work life balance is decent. Immediate team and coworkers feel like a close knit family. Pay is ok. Do a good enough job to be useful to your boss and they will keep you around and give you job security. Spansion is open to switching your role within the company if you are dissatisfied with the current one and want to try something different.

Cons

High level executives at vp level view engineers as expendable labor. They manage with negative feedback and like to instill fear among employees. The company culture is all about making aggressive deadlines set by upper management and causing engineers to sacrifice quality of their work. Each department is pit against each other with their own agendas/deadlines so there are inter-dept conflicts. Not much room to grow within a role. It has a big company feel where you will only be working on one portion of a project and feel like just a cog in the machine.

Pros

The SDC was a wonderful place to work - lots of commitment to development of young engineers via the Rotation program. Middle management was excellent - very supportive, collaborative environment.

Cons

Upper management did a poor job of managing the company as the economy came into a downturn. Due to new factory construction, company never became profitable, knuckling under to weak pricing demanded by greedy customers. Not sure where company will go, now that it has junked its R&D wing. No future?

Pros

Work Opportunity is given to some employees Upper management provides updates on the company on a regular basis. Learning curve is steep. Good for those who wants to learn new things

Cons

Not many chances of career advancement Very strict, no flexibility within the department n also HR Layoffs is a norm. Unstable industry Promises made by management never fulfilled. Banned Skype in the office

Pros

Relaxed work environment for all

Cons

Lack of direction from upper management

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.

Pros

Dedicated and hardworking employees who have worked long and hard

Cons

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