It’s alright if you don’t wanna get promoted - Sr Maintenance Technician GlobalFoundries Employee Review

2.0
Aug 3, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

Experience from a costumer side of semiconductor industry

Cons

Was on this site for 10years. Entered after high school and wanted to get my foot in the door so the easiest route was to be a janitor. Moved to a CE position with applied materials as a customer engineer. After about 4.5 working for vendor, I was approached to move to GF. So I took the opportunity they brought me on as a senior MT. For the first year I was pm team. Then moved to CM “corrective maintenance” busted my butt for about a year doing that. Was notice by a former manager that I was very knowledgeable and put to task long down chambers and also after I was working on the tools that needed start up and or upgrades or even rebuilding a whole tool and removing one. I was the one that went above and beyond to help make CVD more self efficient, and less reliant on the vendor for pay service. Which I did to a point vendor was only needed for software needs. Got no compensation increases or promotions to a title that met my experience or noticed. When my cost savings was sufficient enough to buy a home next to the Saratoga horse track. So placed two weeks and got walked within 50mins. For speaking up for myself and fighting for this for three years.

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5.0
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Cons

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3.0
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Pros

Interesting job learn something new everyday. Don't get dirty Never got denied OT Pays okay if you live in troy, if you want to work within 20 mins of your job tho have 2 roommates.

Cons

Management refused to let an employee work from home so he can take care of his wife for 3 months. When his coworkers do the same job from Malaysia. Litho dept days management is bad management is some how neither technical, professional or a people person. Rules are selective They will promote MTs sleeping with leads And force out MTs who questions it. They will promote one MT who has destroyed 100k in product And hold back another due to vibes They offer jobs or promotion to who they deem worry months in advance and then ask everyone else to apply for the same position for the optics of fairness. They create narratives about about employees without ever interacting with them. Department doesnt have a good training program. They will praise one tech for doing 4 pass downs and criticize another tech that does a PM which if separated would be 10 pass downs. They have realized they are under paying everyone so knew hires are making more than employees at 3 or 4 year mark. They installed a new machine and it sat for a year until ready for production and in that time they never gave a class to explain to night shift how to operate and troubleshoot the machine. They dont have a standard for documentation so finding the information and the information being full filled out is hit or miss. The vibes are off, people constantly take pay cuts to leave. The company as a whole does not seem proud of it self. Other big companies people say hi to each other in the hall, you will see the company logo on vest and hoodies. People speak about their work with excitement.

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