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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1.0
Jul 1, 2014

Stay Away!

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Pros

Compensated for any time spent at work over normal scheduled salary hours. Coming in on an off day lands an extra $500 in my paycheck. Benefit may be specific to MOC since AME employees work 10-11 hour days without any extra pay (for 40 hr work week). Opportunity to get promoted and advance within the Mfg Ops organization regardless of knowledge or experience. Recent college graduates in the industry for less than 2 yrs hold positions with job descriptions requiring 10+ years experience. Lots of job opportunities in the Mfg Ops group, everyone is either quitting or looking for positions elsewhere in the company. If you want a company to sponsor your green card, look here. Over 50% of our team are not U.S. citizens.

Cons

Low work life balance for MOC employees. Shift schedule rotates every 3 months from night to day so it is hard to join any teams or schedule classes to get your masters unless it’s online. Never receive full bonuses estimated in your sign on contract. Bonus program is geared toward compensating management versus individual contributors. Entry Level Engineers, Grade 4, can get up to 5% of their salary in bonus whereas the higher grade levels are looking at 20%+. Consider a fair bonus compensation package, giving employees all the same %, managers will still get more! Although I am not a woman, it is unfortunate to say that I do not believe they are treated fairly within our group. They (women) are constantly overlooked for promotion and in a top heavy management company, no positions in the group are held by a female. Women, STAY AWAY! Even though engineering is in your title, you won’t be able to apply any of your knowledge at work let alone have the ability to make any decisions yourself. Team is extremely micromanaged. Your 12-hr shift will look like this: manual dispatch to tools (since automation can’t be trusted at a multi-million dollar factory and no one is actively trying to fix it), be the go between for the module section managers and AME teams (reject tool time requests regardless if they are warranted), manual dispatch to tools. No team building, extremely low morale. HR is useless, don't waste your time. They don't address any issues. Ranking and Review takes over 6 months!

1.0
Jun 12, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

R&D is done in a consortium with IBM and others (this is public information) so if you get to work with them you'll learn some great new technology. But there is zero internal development.

Cons

Management says they want to be the #1 foundry in the world but they spend money like they're trying to be #5. The company treats workers like disposable garbage then lies and says we're competitive. Salaries are low, bonuses are almost zero, there is no stock (unless you're an exec, then you get pre-IPO restricted units), Forced ranking means 10% of employees get thrown under the bus every year no matter how good they are. There is never enough parking and no garage so you freeze in the snow in the winter and broil in the summer walking half a mile from the outer lots. The fab itself is hotter than hell - no fab on earth runs at this temperature, but some cheap idiot decided to save money on A/C in a $6B fab. How cheap are these people? There are no paper cups for coffee or water. Visitors who don't bring their own cups can't have a drink. "Hi, welcome to GLOBALFOUNDRIES, you can't have any liquid, we can't afford it".

1.0
Apr 28, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

Malta, NY Fab 8 - Good Food and nice new equipment.

Cons

The management are good people as well. However, they sometimes make bad decisions which cost the company money and cause good employees to leave. The training is terrible too. The trainers do not have any patience to train their trainees and they yell at their trainees which makes the trainee frightened to ask questions and cause them to second guess themselves. Frankly, some of the trainers were simply abusive. It's bad business.

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