GlobalFoundries reviews

3.6

63% would recommend to a friend

(2,431 total reviews)
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Tim Breen

75% approve of CEO

40% positive business outlook

GlobalFoundries has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 2,431 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
Oct 16, 2013

Worse then being on fire

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Pros

The only 'good' thing around here is the pay. That is even pushing it. Oh, nice buildings as well.

Cons

To sum it up in one word: Management. This place is full of managers that are only looking out for themselves and will throw you to the wolves in a heart beat if it means they can get out of something. Facilities management has NO idea what is going on. They tell the technicians to cook the maintenance books to make it look like we did required maintenance but didn't because they couldn't get the parts or the resources. They put people on projects only to take the glory after completion and then tell you that you aren't working hard enough so you don't get any bonus or pay raise. They promise big change, but it only brings more troubles. New management come in all the time with no experience and want to put their mark on this place, they implement ridiculous ideas and when they fail (usually do) it's the techs fault because we didn't envision their grand plan. If you must work here, make sure you go into manufacturing. Don't work for Facilities!!!

1.0
Oct 13, 2013

Terrible place!!

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Pros

Nothing besides New Building and tools and talented many people from over the world..

Cons

Terrible work place which I have ever seen. Managers do not have any perspective for the future of company and only think about how to get their option and run.

2.0
Sep 21, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

There are lots of really smart people trying to accomplish a lot with fewer people every day and a new crisis pushed by upper management. benefits are good but not exceptional. Some extras like Toastmasters and employee/family days funded by the company are nice.

Cons

They use a bell curve for review grading on a scale of 1 to 5 with 5 being high. Almost everyone gets a 3 and some people have to get 1 or 2. In theory, it could work but in practice it leads to manager meeting where everyone is pointing out the faults of the other staff in order to get higher ratings for their team. Other companies have abandoned this years ago. HR should come into the groups and work with managers daily to help them set good goals and manage people. I had a new HR person 9 months ago and she has never come talk to any of us! My staff don't even know what she looks like or remember her name. The three 300mm fans should work together but aren't measure on that and everyone is micromanaged by metrics. So they all go their own way and there is little sharing of efforts. Upper management tells staff that they need to be like Samsung workers and do more than one job. But people already are in lots of areas. The Technology group had lots of open positions and money but everyone else is losing positions and people don't get replaced. When someone leaves everyone just gets more work they will be critiqued for not doing well.

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