The fish rots from the head - Engineer - TD GlobalFoundries Employee Review

Many of the wrongs that ordinary employees experience can be traced to delusional and incompetent site management. Say a process can deliver certain metric. The manager sets a goal which is an order of magnitude higher and is genuinely surprised when it cannot be achieved. Then he rolls out a solution to the problem - more meeting, more reports, more powerpoints and even more micromanagement. He sets us an atmosphere where different departments have to fight like dogs for resources and then enjoys their squabble in daily meetings. It's amazing how hundreds of engineers' time and some of the most expensive equipment on Earth is being misused on the whims of a single person. Management patted themselves on the backs by paying bonuses without real merit. After the financial audit the company had to roll out austerity measures including mandatory vacations (which people had to work through at home anyways) and hiring freeze (while almost every engineer is putting 60+ hours work week). Bottom line: don't buy property in Malta. They can't continue to import technology from Dresden indefinitely. With zero output from TD the site will tank within a year.