GlobalFoundries reviews

3.6

65% would recommend to a friend

(2,416 total reviews)
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Tim Breen

70% approve of CEO

42% positive business outlook

GlobalFoundries has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 2,416 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
Jan 1, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

State of the art facilities. Possibility for company growth leading to opportunity. Backer's with deep pockets. Diverse work force. strenthening local economy.

Cons

More image than substance. Upper management seems more interested in projecting to the world that we are a prestigous and successfull company, than they are actually becoming one....... Not entirely truthfull with employee prospects. Talking a big game about raises, bonuses, and promotions, none which will actually come to fruition.......Too much emphasis on degree over experience. Allowing a college grad that has never seen a microchip make process and policy decisions while ignoring the input of techs that have been successfully processing wafers for most of their lives. You have a lot of 20 - 25 year old grads with 0 experience telling 45 - 50 year old techs with 20 years of experience how to do their jobs........Openly spends way too much money on unnecessary building and superficial facelift upgrades while telling hard working employees there is no money for raises or bonuses which were promised.......They Absolutely manage through fear. Middle management is deathly afraid of facing upper management in meetings(to which there are way to many) when issues arise. Causing a trickle down effect. Middle management in turn takes it out on engineers and techs because of said fear. A lot of blame coming from upper management when in business it is known that upper management usually gets the credit when the business succeeds, and the blame when it fails. The upper management at Global Foundries likes to take credit for success and blame middle management and employees for failures.

1.0
Dec 7, 2012

incompetent company

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

able to clock in overtime for non executive level in order to boost income

Cons

non motivating company cultures and bad management

1.0
Nov 29, 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

international colleagues , first couple years since inception was challenging work, but it all went downhill after that.

Cons

Staff are not respected, neither are their opinions.. Hundreds are laid off in overseas sites and they only protect U.S due to NY state and tax incentives. Jobs are unstable. Turnover is very high ; employee morale is lowest of the low. Operations struggling to keep up with TSMC and UMC technology. Poor production processes as same mistakes being done over and over again in a never-ending circle. Management all newly hired with zero foundry experience. Senior management are poor decision makers who do not value staff. Business foundation is shaky as they only want to make their Abu Dhabi investors happy but not solve the real problems. It is all a facade.

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