GlobalFoundries reviews

Deductable insurance cost a lot Hard to get promotions Poor annual raises Management changes so much your boss really never knows your skills or accomplishments

1. Lack of growth: During my 3 years with the company, I felt like my growth was stagnated. I learnt nothing new in the last 2 years of work in there. I came to the job without any motivation and just did the same thing every day. The management burdened me with work that was not in the job scope for me and would never help me in my professional career. There was virtually no training provided for the systems I worked on, and I mostly had to teach myself on the job. 2. Zero Diversity and Inclusion: This is why I left the company in the first place. I was part of a 200+ member department, and I was the only people of color in the engineering group. I had no sense of belonging in the company. I felt like I was being left out of conversations and had to ask people to include me in emails, meetings, and job walks. I felt this even after working 3 years in the company. 3. No promotion opportunities: There were employees with the same job level as me and they had been with the company for 6 more years than me. The promotion document that GlobalFoundries had was of no use because they did not follow it at all. Be assured that you will be worked more than your job level and management will give false promises each year. Before I gave my notice, 4. Horrible pay structure: The pay structure at GlobalFoundries is the worst of any company I have seen until now. I had a bachelor’s degree with 3 years of experience, and I was making nearly the same as a new bachelor college graduate with less than 8 months into the job. To add to insult, I was a whole job level above the new college recruit. Another of my colleague was in the same situation and he made the same as the new college graduate and he had 5 years of experience in the same field he worked on. 5. Increasing workload: When I joined the company, we had a team of 6 engineers and technicians. 2 technicians left within 6 months of me joining for better pay. The management made false promises of getting new people to replace them but never did. The situation was the same when I finally left after 3 years. All that workload was transferred to the current employees. At one point, I was working on 3 different systems and was in a lot of pressure. My job was also transferred to an existing engineer. 6. Horrible management: Most of the managers in the department did not even know the systems that they managed. Management would engage the employees in useless meetings which took time away from getting the actual work done. As an engineer, be prepared to have 15-20 meeting per week and make a load of spreadsheets, presentations, word document. Every employee of the company will tell you the same thing about management: that they are horrible and do not care at all about the employees. There were people who had been managers for 15 + years and were taking courses on how to manage people. The higher level management will only see you as a number on a spreadsheet.