Semiconductor industry, especially foundry, needs employee to work very hard to tune different conditions very carefully. TSMC is a good example, Samsung too. IBM is a bad example, now even Intel. Asians, especially from China and Korea, have specially military training in their youth, so have fully submission to their bosses. Therefore TSMC have 24HRs 3 shift working support, I mean not only facilities, but also total TD without complain. Samsung engineers could be in Fab for over 100 hours per week, how about us? 9 to 5 is for a diligent worker in Malta, not even mention that in these 8 hours how many people curl up at Cafeteria did their own business. I am not saying work-life balance is not good for us, but it is definitely bad for foundry industry. I am sorry for Mubadala to find it so late, and for us to be trapped in this industry for longer time than it should be.
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Nothing wrong in industry. Its challanging and good field to grow.Leadership needs to change .
Bring in somebody like Lou Gerstner.He cleaned house starting at the top. Executives were required to just 'talk' rather than using 'slides'. Those who were simply parroting what their teams told them were OUT! Lou had to do ayoffs, but he did it quickly and properly. Lou made the elephant dance and everyone won as a result. Unfortunately what happened here is clean up and changes always at lower levels.
Why engineer no go in the fab, they no like wearing the ckeanroom suit. It’s no an engineer or tech issue, it management and HR. They allow slacking and HR give unqualified resume. When real talent hire they quit slacker no work environment. And there no synergy. Too many visa holders who loose status, how can long term be achieved.
May sell GF to TSMC & Samsung ? GF just produces computer chips as a manufacture facility . Don't need spend too much on research, for that just waste money
just cut all blood s---ing fab
I just say Globalfountries research ability is very weak. In my mind, Fab 8 no any successful story about research. 14 nm tech, that's not GF's success, GF just bought from Samsung. Spending too much on research , but no any results. You feel the employee are too relax , that's probably because no enough job to do. TSMC already succeed in 7 nm, but it seems no hope for GF to succeed very soon. Maybe when you succeed in 7nm, TSMC already move to 5 nm. GF must admit you couldn't compete in high-tech computer chip with TSMC & Samsung. May adjust your strategy and look for other areas which don't need high-level computer chip such as 7nm /5 nm, etc
Too much multiculturalism is what is bringing Globalfoundries down. Everyone is worried too much about feelings and not enough about how working people, who can't leave their egos and cast-system behavior at the door, need to just work, with common sense.
Amen to that! Global foundries - where a recent college grad tells you how to work on a tool that only you touch.
Just 2 things of note. We do have labor laws that prevent people from working 100 hour weeks. I I find it funny you said "in the Fab" if Engineers were in the Fab more often working with there tools we would progress by leaps and bounds.