GlobalFoundries reviews

First, AMD had good engineers but didn't have enough money to survive. We are sold to Abu Dhabi, moved to upstate NY, but many good engineers didn't relocate to NY. Next we hired whoever comes to interview to meet the hiring target. as a result we ended up getting many cast outs, incompetents, losers, and dead woods. They don't know what they are doing, they don't know how to develop the state of the art technology, so all they know is to copy from a Korean fab. So we brought many people from a nearby fab. But all they know is to make test chips, don't know mass production for commercial products. Moreover they have already gone through several rounds of layoffs. We got many leftovers who cannot find another job. Incompetence continues forever until they shut down Fab8.

The culture that has been created is that the experienced hard workers are seen as annoyances by their coworkers who are vindicated when everyone receives the same review score to fit into the bell curve. The culture of mediocrity has been well established for sometime now even before the recent "were not doing so well" state of the Union address from upper management. No reward for those who actually contribute, youre given the same rating (3) as the guy that just shows up to clock in no matter what you do Hard workers don't work hard because they've learned every review period its just a lost cause. Hard workers are actually ridiculed by their lazy co-workers who don't do anything.. "what are you doing all that for, youre not gonna get above a 3 anyways" Its near impossible to get promoted unless you're a woman, then you get a high rating and a promotion just for being able to do almost as much as the men you work with. The raises, promotions and merit increases are so pathetic that brand new hires make more than technicians who stuck it out here since startup. I've trained over 20 new co-workers since working here, almost all of them make more than I do. Yes we talk about what we make get over it. If you complain about making less than the new guy you're labeled as a bad apple who isn't a "team player".