Texas Instruments Reviews in Bangalore, India Area

Pros

challenging work
good hr policies that take care of performing individuals
reasonably good pay
good work culture
nice health club
flexible work hours

Cons

office located in CV raman nagar, making the commute to work a killer
if you are a software engineer interested in desktop, not much to do here

Advice to Senior Management

do not have the expertise to advice. fairly satisfied with my work at TI and the direction in which TI has been heading.

Pros

good technical work
good for people having less experience

Cons

no growth opportunities especially in wireless segment
huge wok pressure
unrealistic schedules
no work-life balance

Pros

very high employee retention. good work life balance.

Cons

no work. slow growth and progress

Advice to Senior Management

hire more engineers and fire more managers

Pros

Good salary
Work life balance is maintainable but its up to you to take the lead.
you will learn a lot in work

Cons

Training for software is limited.
Always i felt software is given a second preference compared to hardware.
More frequents re-organisation, so its a bit difficult to align your goals towards the team's goal.The downside is u will totally be competing with a different set of people,with different skills and different role.Normalization during the appraisal cycle becomes a debatable issue.

Advice to Senior Management

More training towards software
lot of scope for improvement in Work life balance

Pros

Open to new opportunities and challenges
Flexible hours
Experience peer group to learn from
Customer oriented company
Good Senior management team

Cons

Compensation
Perks
Little bit aggressive work pressure
lacks in good training and mentoring
Less frequent fun events and team lunch for employees

Advice to Senior Management

Please work on below items

Compensation
Perks
Make work pressure enjoyable
Work on good training and mentoring
Make fun events and team lunch for employees more frequent

Pros

No office politics, technical/people managers very good at their job of managing, no HR interference; lot of flexibility in pursuing opportunities which interest you, be it technical or non-technical.

Cons

Got unexciting after a year of working here, maybe due to slow-moving nature of semiconductor industry itself. Also, people here have been around for really long time, which means they get into a routine.

Advice to Senior Management

More aggressive approach like Qualcomm/Nvidia (in Application Processor) business might help in gaining the market share for OMAP (product on which I worked).

Pros

1. Work life balance.
2. Good facilities for employees.
3. Good company to join if you are planning a long term career in one company.
4. Lot of options to work in different business groups with a wide variety of products.

Cons

1. Major arch work still done out of US and France. Most of the work is execution as opposed to actually defining a product.

Advice to Senior Management

1. Performance evaluation has to be more transparent.
2. More work related to architecture and product definition has to be done in India

Pros

1. Good quality of technical work, competent colleagues, managers are knowledgeable & supportive. Work processes are very well defined.
2. Campus is well-maintained with lots of facility
3. Work hours flexible, and mostly 8-9 hours except for a month before release.
4. Hire mostly at entry level, and try to grow them in a TI setup, so that there is no work culture mismatch with an employee and his manager (happens in a lot other firms)

Cons

1. Very laid back work. Very few team work, you work alone on your module. No importance given on growing soft and communication skills of an employee. So even a number of managers lack communication skills badly.
2. Since managers are mostly technical people grown up the ladder, the fits well in the organization. But same time, they lack exposure, and at rush hour time takes wrong directions.
3. In India they pay lower than most of their peers.
4. Performance is appreciated, but not reflected in salary.

Advice to Senior Management

Pay more, and train a bit of communication skllls in your employees. People need to grow a bit of managerial skills, because after all it's a corporate set-up, and they need to learn how to handle last minute disasters

Pros

- Excellent work environment

- knowledgeable people, peer groups is quite learned, best folks from different colleges/institutions across the country join as freshers

- facilities are good at the bangalore campus (not sure about other campuses)

- technically there are loads to learn from everyone around you, the environment is good where knowledge sharing is encouraged, and one can get very good exposure to different areas beyond their own domain

Cons

- I've seen it in numerous people now, but even the best of them become useless when they become managers, as if becoming a manager gives them the license to retired life, this is especially true for the domain I'm in.

- not many folks are hired every year, that often means most teams are quite short staffed, one continues to do the rigorous routines year after year, quite a lot of folks look quite stuck with what they're doing, and they just stop growing

- Compensation packages are definitely below average in this industry as compared to its peers. One of the very few companies which doesn't give RSUs or other such options as a part of package

- Communication: some so very important decisions get communicated suddenly overnight which clearly couldn't be an overnight decision. I don't understand what's the problem in sharing info.

- Extremely discourteous of late, no intimations of people leaving the organisation.

- Even the smallest and most innocuous of developments are hidden by the management in that manner as if its like the operation to kill Osama, just that people get to know through rumours anyways. Often after knowing folks wonder - did this really have any importance to be hidden so much?

- No focus on talent acquisition or retention

Advice to Senior Management

This is an amazing place to work, we've got all the infrastructure, all the facilities to make it one of the best worldwide. Please rein in the middle level management. Believe me they're useless, they have no contribution except for pulling us down. Be fair, pay well, retain talent and it will work wonders for all of us.

Pros

You have tremendous opportunities knocking at your door , not just in professional front but also in other aspects of life.

Cons

May be a general problem for people who love to do proper research without pressures of deadlines looms in TI as well.

Advice to Senior Management

I feel manager can be more open to opinions of employees and the interaction level between manager and employee could be improved in a equalized manner.