Texas Instruments Reviews

Former Employee – worked at Texas Instruments full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Great innovation, engineering and products, great support from factory, can-do spirit at factory. good reputation in the marketplace with customers. Good compensation.

Cons – I joined the TI sales force in 2006, and it was a great place where they valued their people and developed them. By 2011, that had turned 180 degrees and people were now a commodity and older, veteran people were unceremoniously made to feel unwelcome, so almost all of them left. Regional sales manager positions with 20-30 reports were filled with people that 2 years before were college interns, a very nice slap in the face to the veteran people in the field who had been selling TI for years. Also, TI stopped calling on "non-growth" customers, leaving them to the competition. Management sought absolutely no feedback from the field. This is a great place to work if you're a robot.

Advice to Senior Management – Stop being so arrogant and care about your people.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Texas Instruments full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – None as this company is all about cutting cost and people

Cons – This company has lost its way but this is expected with top management background being sales. This has led to a company with no vision and lack of technology leadership. They do excel at cutting cost by laying off the people who really make a difference except for those who are buddies with management (good old boy network going strong).

Those thinking about joining, my recommendation is to stay away as this company is heading in the wrong direction, more so if your field is SW programmer (there are very little to no career opportunities).

Advice to Senior Management – Upper management should be the first ones to be fired due to their bad decisions and lack of vision and strategy

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Texas Instruments

Pros – Company has tremendous financial resources and massive product portfolio offering. Employee benefits (health, vision, 401k, ESSP) are very competitive with other like companies.

Cons – No work life balance. Not a good place to work if you have a family or want to ever have the opportunity to spend time with them

Advice to Senior Management – Learn how to appreciate your employees. Constant revolving door of employees leaving due to local management and expectation you work 24/7. Need to allow work/life balance

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Texas Instruments

Pros – good profit sharing, but treatment by management is poor

Cons – very poor treatment by management

Advice to Senior Management – treat employees better

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Texas Instruments

Pros – TI sponsors employees with PhD degree to get green cards via EB1. It takes at most one year to get green card.

Cons – There are to many politics in TI. Your review and promotion depends on your relationship with your manger rather than your performance. Many talented people have left TI. My manger didn't show up
in any group meeting. He just get in touch with one or two people in the group to get to know the situation of the project.

Advice to Senior Management – The quality of TI mid-level management is terrible. Some managers provide no help in your career and just use review as a means to show his power.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Texas Instruments

Pros – TI is a good place to start a career.
If you do find a good group, it is an outstanding place to work and spend a career. Plenty of technical challenges and good people to work with.

Overall, the low expectations placed on new employees make it a great place to learn. Add in a culture of forgiveness and you have a great place to start a career.

Cons – If you don't find a good group....
Management can be a bit short sighted and tends over react to simple problems. Somehow management only respects people who create their own problems (through neglect) and then reward them when they do their job.

Management tends to expect you to work long hours no matter what.
No advancement.

Advice to Senior Management – Recognize the difference between a great individual contributor and a manager. They are not the same. TI's tendency to elevate individual contributors leads to a lot of micro managers.

Current Employee – been working at Texas Instruments

Pros – Texas Instruments is a good place to start a career in terms of intial experience. Alot of very knowledgable engineers to learn from.

Cons – Recent changes at TI have disenfrachised alot of the senior engineering staff. While in the past I would have easily recommended friends to join the team, with the current direction I now would hesitate to make such a recommendation.

Advice to Senior Management – I would listen to senior technical staff and try to gain from their experience and suggestions. Remember that it is the guys working on the front line that makes the company innovative and successful.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Texas Instruments

Pros – Profit sharing and ESPP program
most of the managers are great to work for.

Cons – very political and gives no importance to the amount of effort and results. Seniority is a big thing, and does not encourage new hires in this regards. The TECH Staff program is all political and not based on actual accomplishments, it's mind blowing to see the people they pass up and the people they promote, they give an extraordinary amount of leverage to minorities in TECH staff, raises, hiring etc. which is great if your a minority otherwise be prepared to get passed over (read between the lines).

Advice to Senior Management – .

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Texas Instruments

Pros – Opportunity to learn various tools and technologies used in IC design.

Cons – Management is terrible at all levels. Only place where I have worked where your own manager tries to discredit your work while trying to claim credit for it himself in a different forum. Feels like a sweatshop. No opportunities to grow. Most of the managers are busy playing the blame game. 90% of the people dont do any useful work ...the 10% that do are overloaded. Most of the sharp young employees in my group leave after a couple of years as they see there is no point in staying on.

Advice to Senior Management – Stop micromanaging and trying to compete with your employees or people who are reporting to you!!

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Texas Instruments

Pros – Decent pay, good exposure. Great place to start a career, but lousy to continue past 5 years.

Cons – Horrible review structure. Accomplishments don't matter. Ole' boy network in full effect.

Advice to Senior Management – Get real leaders, not engineers that you decide to give power to and can't inspire. Good Engineer /= Good leader. Tech staff is a joke.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend