GlobalFoundries reviews

3.6

63% would recommend to a friend

(2,427 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 2,427 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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2.0
Jun 5, 2014

HR Lectures Me on Accountability ?

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Pros

Nice cafeteria Decent benefits New building & equipment

Cons

In a mandatory all day training, HR lectured all managers about accountability. Functional managers are to blame for the Glassdoor comments, poor reputation and death-spiral attrition. Over the years I have heard management come up with many fairy tales to explain away their bad decisions and their poor leadership, but this takes the cake! HR adds no value in Malta. Their processes and systems are archaic and consistently disappoint. We can't hire good people and we can't promote good people. We can't give honest and accurate performance feedback to people. We are accountable for making HR's failures our responsibility. That is the ultimate accountability dodge.

2.0
Jun 3, 2014

disappointed

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Pros

well funded, everything is new

Cons

chaotic, no stable strategy, ameteurs

2.0
Jun 3, 2014
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Pros

- still a lot of very good engineers you can learn from - good networking opportunities for new job (many people leaving company within 2 y time) - state of art technology and tools - for Germany very good leaving packages (employees with permanent German contract) - good living cost/initial salary ratio (but do not expect significant rise)

Cons

- completely clueless higher management (changing priority on weekly basis, many directors lacking basic knowledge about project management not talking about minimum technical clue to run the foundries, typically no one cares about employee morale, typical high level manager will do everything to keep his position even if this is seriously harming company resulting huge financial looses, none of them really cares about engineers opinion regarding technical matters that results in overcommitment to customers) - no any carrier planning nor overhours compensation/salary rise is a joke - individual performance management does not work (communism like mentality - every one equal but some are more equal. In many cases you perform or not you will have the same rise.) - almost no technical/soft skills training (learning department is a joke) - in some departments people lacking of any personal culture i.e. shouting at the meetings/interrupting (but this is not typical for all departments) - very inbalanced work load some people are at the limits while another spent most of the time in coffe corners - at engineering level many decisions are based on "personal choices" instead of solid data analysis. Despite complexity of microelectronic manufacturing I would not call GF analytical company at any level. - personal integrity and professionalism will not lead you anywhere in this company

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