With layoffs looming, the only people who are guaranteed to make it through are kiss-as--s and the ones who can backstab their way to the top. Among the rest, nobody is safe. It doesn't matter how long you've been here or how knowledgeable you are... — read more 

My guess is 249 people and a 60 day severance…. What are your predictions?

Nice little email right before the weekend! Paraphrasing “Hey everyone, you might be getting laid off but we can’t tell you who, how many, when or even where. Please feel free to worry and speculate! “ I swear this fk’r is tone deaf. If I survive... — read more 

"GlobalFoundries CFO David Reeder said earlier this week during the company’s Q3 earnings call: "For the full year 2022, we now expect total gross CapEx to be between $3B and $3.3B, impacted primarily by the well-known delays in capital equipment... — read more 

Each time, I was shocked and devastated. And each time, I was able to find new opportunities quickly—in part because I was already focused on my job search. I've had to learn the hard way that it's important to stay engaged with the world around... — read more 

Can GF still bank from the CHIPS act even though the company has tax exempt status being that the company is registered in the tax free haven of the Cayman Islands? Let's see doesn't pay taxes, boasts record profits, and layoffs all in the same 4... — read more 

I've seen this mentioned as the day of layoffs, how accurate is this information? Was there an announcement I somehow missed or is this still just speculation? It's easier to know the date than to keep stressing over it every single day, so I hope... — read more 

ATUL sacrificed and went ahead to send the details to all in company. Sad that no action was taken on any of highlighted in power point. Even worst that those tendencies prosper still and now have taken a root in GF. Deep cleansing is needed in GF... — read more 

Hi all, I am willing to collect input/ suggestions via this post and prepare to file law suit before or after GF action. I will need your help if you are impacted and come under this category to fight for all of us. Please like, suggest and let me... — read more 

Equipment Maintenance Technicians, facility Maintenance Technicians and chemical Ops, fear not. Worst case scenario you’ll be kept around and needed to decommission the equipment should the Fab get shuttered. Even in downturn periods, you’ll be... — read more 

As a former GF employee and having moved onward in 2022 to pursue higher paying opportunities, I'm not sure people understand how GF is really run. The investment firm Mubadala still owns 85% aprox of GF's stock. So even though GF is a public... — read more 

Enough is enough. What else we need to bear these low performance people?

Have it on a very reliable source that R&D, Sales /Marketing and Purchasing will most heavily impacted.

State of the company: suffered from high attrition the last 2 years a lot of positions have not been backfilled (no approval) teams have struggled to hire competent replacements where allowed morale already low Then what happened the past... — read more 

Being a former employee at GF I still have a lot of friends who are there since I left in 2016 and took a job at a smaller company, best decision I ever made!! Overall, I wish the company well and hope they will succeed. I still have many friends... — read more 

Should I be worried about more layoffs next week?

I left Glofo already, but just literally earlier this week I saw a few managers from Glofo at the SUNY Nanotech recruiting. From my friends that were still there I know my former team has just begin to refill the vacancies as well. I don't understand... — read more 

I had no option but to join GF as being on H1B, I did not have much option and timeline was against me. I can tell that management is terrible , incompetent, biased , non transparent. AME in particular is in deep sh-t as it is in hands of wrong... — read more 

With the upcoming cost cutting, are the monthly AME golf outings in jeopardy? Or will we be left only with the afternoon ping-pong tourneys in the cafe?

Frankly I am in middle of resigning as I am really fed up with culture in GF. CEO finds way to confuse employees using his artificially created slides sometimes using Ebitda and some times gross margin.. whatever makes him sound good. Fundamentally... — read more 

Being a former engineer, i can say that there is no culture in GF. They have been lucky to have experienced guys from IBM, charted and able to recruit engineers to work for them in inhuman conditions. There is no way to get promoted unless you know... — read more 

If I were a leader, it would be devastating for me to find out that many employees, despite everything, are asking what they could do in order to be cut. How many times have you heard such questions? It says a lot about the general... — read more 

Low performers or quiet quitters, might want to call your mothers

Alwasy the same. Folks leave in silence.

This is perhaps the worst time to be laid off. What worries me the most is the state of the job market, where there is now a lot of competition and hiring freezes in many companies... Will the severance pay be enough until we manage to find new... — read more 

I was just telling my managers that we finally had reached the level of quality in the team that we literally had worked to recreate since the Pivot. I work with the labs and we were gutted. Now if we lose people again I will not be around to rebuild... — read more 

Any info who will be the biggest target groups?

Some write here that their cuts were not surprising at all, considering the layoffs that are happening in many tech companies now. And yet, I was still surprised because we are terribly understaffed and I don't understand how everything will work... — read more 

The tech industry has seen a string of layoffs this year in the face of uncertain economic conditions https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/09/tech-layoffs-2022.html

Fab8 managers have an emergency meeting today at 14:00 to finalize layoff plans. The hammer will drop starting tomorrow.

I want to talk about the real problems at fab8. Not fake ones like understaffing, poor management or low pay that the serial complainers here post. So you're probably wondering what the real problems are. Well, here: too much microwaved fish... — read more 

After having the worse employee IPO participation in tech, GF(directors and above), are now in NYC living it up and toasting a job well done. Too bad most of my friends have left in the last year for Austin.

Has anyone confronted their managers about their teams being shorthanded? My manager said he isn't getting any qualified applicants for our engineering team. That and the number of open positions approved is half of what the team needs to be whole... — read more 

How is it that certain departments, say EHS, can now promote someone to management, with only one person reporting to them? Is this payback for something? Blatant favoritism? How do you justify a first line manager with only one report? Most... — read more 

What are your thoughts ?

Saw a few job ads about positions in Malaysia. Another new fab or job outsourcing to cheap place?

with seemingly more former fab7 people filling positions of influence at fab8, does anyone see the same issues from 2011-2014? like culture clashes between AMD and Chartered people (and some early IBM defectors)? shouting and shaming in meetings?... — read more 

Micron Technology plans to spend up to $100 billion building a mega-complex of computer chip plants in Syracuse’s northern suburbs in what would be the largest single private investment in New York... — read more 

Painful to work when you are surrounded by people who were quickly unfairly promoted, who are 1 to 4 levels above you, and you know you are much smarter than them? If you are stuck to the area and can't leave GF, what do you do? Quiet quitting! which... — read more