GlobalFoundries reviews

3.6

63% would recommend to a friend

(2,429 total reviews)
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Tim Breen

74% approve of CEO

40% positive business outlook

GlobalFoundries has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 2,429 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The GlobalFoundries employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Manufacturing industry (3.5 stars).

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2K reviews
1.0
Oct 19, 2014

This company needs a long term vision

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

You can experience how a leading edge semiconductor company operates. A lot of interaction with major equipment suppliers and opportunities to work with some excellent engineers...before they leave soon

Cons

This company is like a dead meat or prey to different groups of people from failed companies. One group of people from a failed company shows up, draws cash from the company and leaves. And next group of people shows up and doing the same thing and it repeats. The owner doesn't know anything about semiconductor and the management try to get as much money as they can during their stay without long term vision to make this company successful. No strategy or competence in management... directors and above.

2.0
Oct 16, 2014

Princ Engineer

Recommend
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Pros

It is just a job, which can let you bring bread on table for your family. good for fresh graduate student for future career development. good for those people want to enjoy retire life

Cons

1)people come from all the world, some of them are very good professionally and some of them are really buster 2) promotion is not on your performance, it is on how close to your manager 3) very weak executive ability compare to his competitor TSMC 4) nobody follow protocol, cleaning room like a dust room it is not very hard to find all possible particle in clean room. my god, Who is going to believe they can make good product in such kind of cleaning room.

1.0
Oct 8, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The site is brand new and gorgeous. You will work with the most sophisticated tools and systems in the business. Management is consumed with meetings and politics, leaving room for the individual contributor to breathe much of the time. Fantastic cafeteria, by corporate standards (although very expensive). There are opportunities to interact with top executives from companies throughout the supply chain, offering unparalleled ability to build your contact base. Location is in the proximity of several nature areas and quaint upstate NY towns.

Cons

Performance is absolutely not rewarded. Throughout my time, I was constantly reminded that I was "one of the best Engineers on the site." Not so fast....two years later, I received zero raises or promotions. In more than two years, I was only given one performance review, and it wasn't even close to fair. After being expected to carry responsibilities in the job title two levels above mine from the moment I stepped on-site, I was baffled by the lack of recognition. Engineers are expected to be on call 24x7, and due to a lack of institutionalized training, are constantly bombarded by phone calls at ungodly hours of the night. The company is reactionary to customer audits, and allows itself to be backed into a corner each time before attempting to fix systematic problems. Thus, the efforts are frequently nothing more than superficial. I can't count the number of projects of $10 million+ that are never finished, have results inaccurately reported, or just fall by the wayside. I feel genuinely bad for anyone who gets involved in this company. It's an absolute sham. Good ol' boys club of failed managers padding their resumes and retirement accounts.

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