GlobalFoundries reviews

3.6

66% would recommend to a friend

(2,420 total reviews)
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Tim Breen

72% approve of CEO

42% positive business outlook

GlobalFoundries has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 2,420 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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1.0
Jul 7, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

Global Cafe- good food, great customer service

Cons

They do not compensate the right people for their quality work, but over compensate the lazy people. They pay children straight out of college to do managerial positions but most have no manergial experience what so ever. The training is below sub-par. Human Resource has proven to be useless. Management constantly lying to employees. Promotions are lateral moves, so the person in the same job title can be getting paid significantly more for the same work. Their GPM system is a joke and basically pointless. Communication is horrible.

1.0
Jul 5, 2013

The fish rots from the head

Recommend
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Pros

The company used to hire new college graduates with (annual) salaries slightly above market

Cons

Many of the wrongs that ordinary employees experience can be traced to delusional and incompetent site management. Say a process can deliver certain metric. The manager sets a goal which is an order of magnitude higher and is genuinely surprised when it cannot be achieved. Then he rolls out a solution to the problem - more meeting, more reports, more powerpoints and even more micromanagement. He sets us an atmosphere where different departments have to fight like dogs for resources and then enjoys their squabble in daily meetings. It's amazing how hundreds of engineers' time and some of the most expensive equipment on Earth is being misused on the whims of a single person. Management patted themselves on the backs by paying bonuses without real merit. After the financial audit the company had to roll out austerity measures including mandatory vacations (which people had to work through at home anyways) and hiring freeze (while almost every engineer is putting 60+ hours work week). Bottom line: don't buy property in Malta. They can't continue to import technology from Dresden indefinitely. With zero output from TD the site will tank within a year.

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