Oct 7, 2014
Global organization with no cohesiveness
Anonymous employee
GlobalFoundries reviews
3.6
63% would recommend to a friend
Tim Breen
74% approve of CEO
40% positive business outlook
GlobalFoundries has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 2,430 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
Oct 5, 2014
KC Ang The Sunshine Band Collapsing. The Gig is Up!
Current employee, more than 3 years
Malta, NY
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros
Get some experience in leading edge technology and then move on, to somewhere else. Or be part of the KC clan and get it all for doing nothing. The new GM is a visionary, we all believe he will make the right changes. He has started already, it is what the company needed. He is bringing in some very good talented folks with the drive to see the vision. More IBM folks are here now and they can see through the muddle. And they can guide the new GM though the pile of mess so things can go in the right direction.
Cons
Human dignity is not part of the culture. If you are from Singapore and part of the KC clan, then you get whatever you want. So for the 99% that are struggling to get something and have to work 100% harder than the KC clan types. You have in one group almost everyone in management from Singapore and they have violated every single federal workplace law. But yet HR, will not act, why? Because they are part of the KC clan and believe it or not the KC doesn't want them back to their native Sunshine country. Some of these foreigners, are good, at giving the right folks the smile, only when it's to their benefit, then they turn around and brow beat everyone else in the organization. These Singaporean's are hypocrites! By the way, these clowns have green cards, almost as soon as they got here to the US, they have displaced Americans that can do the same job better. Maybe that explains the last few years of no forward progress with the company. Great companies would have terminated these Singaporean clowns several years back, but in all honestly, GlobalFoundries, pays so much in relocation costs, that they don't want to look bad when they have to let anyone go back to their native country.
2.0
Oct 5, 2014
Major changes .... some results .... still a long way to go.
Current employee, more than 3 years
Malta, NY
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook
Pros
Globally they finally realized the last board of directors was meaningless and CEO was clueless and they finally replaced the well connected site leaders who messed up the site. ( Don't worry about them, they found nice jobs with vendor companies. don't bet the same for the man in the street ) We got some of the best talkers in the industry. We outperform any of our competitors in delivery of messages by a very wide margin. Truely, never was so little results spoken of by so much. We licensed technology for an obscene expense from another company which reflects the failure of our own development efforts ( which we had invested a lot). It was a nice celebration we had for our large expenses and write offs of our investment.. Not sure if the new IBM GM can do much. Funny thing is that the last "great leader" proclaimed before that Malta outperformed IBM on latest tech development. I guess Folks finally realized that IBM's crappy performance was in fact better. It really takes some extraordinarily bad Leadership to under perform with respect to IBM. Some programs succeed and in fact succeed very well in earning revenue. Rewind back 1 year ago and you'll recall that those programs are also the least in priority. Duh...
Cons
Huge gravy train numbering into the hundreds of employees who have past working association with a key figure in this company. You can easier identify such departments by the ridiculous number of Senior/Principle member of technical staffs they have. They report either into non critical organizations or are offsite in sunny Austin/West Coast and have nice 8-5 jobs. No ownership for any of their simulations/unrealistic forecasts or implications. Gravy train departments also have the best retention. No surprises. Those who do little, live well with guaranteed promotions. Ridiculously huge overhead and no one even knows how they contribute to the business. They love the GPM. Each leader is convinced that he can do a better job than his predecessor on differentiating performance. Each leader ensures that his huge gravy train gets the high ratings while folks they don't know get the low ratings. Combine this with frequent management changes and guess the result. No one can even quantify the value it adds to the company. Management / HR are very conscious of glassdoor reviews. They blame each other for the poor reviews but they change a lot of their policies.
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