With the current CEO about to complete 3 years, and GF in its 12th year and eyeing an IPO, I think it's perfect time for the board to show commitment to gender equality and D&I by hiring a woman CEO. None of the 4 CEOs so far, nor any of the current heads of business units, or sales, or fabs is a woman. We have seen how Lisa Su turned AMD completely around, IBM's previous CEO was a woman, and now its time to show that a woman can lead a foundry too. GF has a great culture of d&i, and women are given great opportunities at lower levels, now its time to pull this great culture into leadership as well.
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I know of a time some guys were not given a management job because they want to do this gender equality and gave a job to a women with barely any experience to boost the gender equality numbers
How about we stop all of this gender and race cr-p and just do the true "equal" thing and go with whoever is best qualified regardless of race, gender or any other non-qualifying factors!
@nfj+19BWLN9g 'Specifically looking for a woman to fill that position...'. THAT IS EXACTLY what GF is doing at some lower positions. So why not CEO?
I don't understand what the purpose of this post is. Women at Globalfoundries are treated like Gold. I have a few women in my department and they have been making mistakes that cost the company hundreds of thousands of dollars without any accountability. Also, they come to work, chat most of the day and waste the company's resources and their salaries. I have worked at other big tech companies before Globalfoundries and I can tell you for a fact that women at Globalfoundries are treated really well. It is like heaven at Globalfoundries for a woman. You need to stop pedestalizing women and focus on quality and competency not gender. The company has been struggling and now you want a female CEO for the company to drop dead?
Interesting to see how people who support or benefit from this practice when it happens at lower levels; get scared when someone talks about doing it at CEO level and downvote the post, thinking that this may take it too far and stop the practice. Can HR release data to settle this - 1) percentage of women who were promoted at each level compared to men, 2) number of years women and men were in previous levels before being promoted. 3) acceptance rates of women vs men for new hires. No HR won't do that. But will release a stupid Ask HR portal.
Advertise the position, and if the right candidate happens to be a woman, hire her.
Specifically looking for a woman to fill that position is just discrimination, but you all know that, don't you.