Texas Instruments Reviews

Pros

Very intelligent coworkers. Everyone was pretty nice.
Business casual work environment.
Fortune 500
Benefits were just ok but better than expected for a contract job.

Cons

Everyone was always so stressed out. The deadlines were crazy, which surprised me for a corporate job. It was like working at an ad agency but the pay was not equal to what you could make at an agency.

Advice to Senior Management

The creative process is not like stamping out widgets in a factory. Give people time to do their best work. Otherwise you get what you pay for.

Pros

- Employees generally show a good work attitude each other
- Cafeteria is subsidised and offers good value for money
- Off-site meetings are a nice perk

Cons

- Expensive to rent or buy local property. Need to live further away from Freising to see a drop in prices
- No ESPP due to EU regulations

Advice to Senior Management

Provide better support so that workers can more easily complete task and meet project deadlines. Hiring more staff would be one possible solution.

Pros

Good management. It depends on whether you stay on the right team at the right time.
Flexible work hour.
Nice house price.
Good pay.

Cons

Too much projects going on. It's getting more obvious after 2009 layoff.
Need more precise direction from manager.
Tight schedule when tape out.

Advice to Senior Management

More open to the engineer.
More clear project forecast. Engineer can work on sth with no revenue in the future.
More freq review on the engineer performance.

Pros

Excellent benefits and perks to employees.

Cons

Pay rate is not quite up to competitors.

Advice to Senior Management

Offer better pay

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

The financial benefits are good. Profit sharing yield excellent bonuses when profits are good. Corporate strategy is well defined by solid executive leadership.

Cons

Stingy budgets for technology equipment--I'm using a 6-year old laptop! Atmosphere doesn't seem to foster creativity to the same extent of companies like Facebook or Google.

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

good profit sharing, but treatment by management is poor

Cons

very poor treatment by management

Advice to Senior Management

treat employees better

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

There are plenty of talented people around. Very competitive compensation packages and generous profit sharing. Tremendous focus on being number one in analog circuit design. This has been the clear focus evolving over the past decade and it looks to pay off.

Cons

People are extremely busy. TI had large layoffs in late 2008 and early 2009. Since then, revenues are way up but groups continue to be short-staffed.

Managers at all levels need some people skill training. TI has pushed its managers to be outward focused and therefore they are lacking basic talent management skills.

Advice to Senior Management

Keep some continuity in the management. Stop shuffling managers every two years. Promote experienced people to lead business units. We have too many people with no management experience and no direct knowledge of technology development given the reigns of $200M businesses. Most are doomed to fail.