Pros
There really isn’t much to be positive about. I quit, couldn’t stay and wait for the inevitable lay-off any longer. I tried, that’s positive, I guess.
Cons
GF Fab8 has awful middle and worse upper management. I ignored the Glassdoor reviews and took a job at Fab8, HUGE mistake! I had never experienced engineering management with zero accountability, until Fab8. Even an average engineer like me can see the problem in AME is at the top,. What does it take to remove the Clarkson grads? They have cost this company so much money it’s unbelievable they remain at the helm of this rudderless ship. There are really three drivers of incompetence at play here. I don’t see it as a regional deficiency, so there is still hope for the place if they cleared out management team. 1. The IBM and Charter management is utterly absent talent. What talent they did have, they laid off to protect their incompetence. As the saying goes, in good companies ideas win and in bad companies politics wins. Well, Fab8 is all politics. These people drove Charter out of business and IBM paid GF to take this group out of their organization. There is plenty of evidence that this team is driving GF Fab8 into the same abyss. 2. Really good engineers leave this place the moment their two year commitment is satisfied. It’s always tough to keep good talent when you put morons at the helm. 3. HR, they are truly horrible at Fab8. This too starts at the top. HR has employees working daily to produce reviews on this site, to counter the truth about this horrible company. Ask yourself, if you were in management, is that the approach you would take if you wanted to fix the problems at Fab8? Yeah, that’s how incompetent these people are, true incompetence, This kind of moronic incompetence you don’t find every day, unless you take a job at GF Fab8.