Texas Instruments Reviews in Dallas-Fort Worth, TX Area

Pros

Great Benefits.
Competitive pay.
Shift work gives many consecutive days off.
Your job role plays a big part in production.

Cons

The demands of multiple bosses can conflict with each other.
Career advancement is hindered.
Many politics affecting logical decision making.

Advice to Senior Management

It would be useful to talk among other leaders within certain departments to come to a unified approach to situations before sending orders to the Fab to follow because they often conflict with each other.

Pros

Relatively stable company
Decent pay and benefits
Opportunity to work with others worldwide
On the forefront of technology
Fair amount of flexibility, work/life balance is encouraged (in many areas)

Cons

Very conservative culture
Many employees have spent many years, even their whole careers here, and can be resistant to doing things and thinking differently
Operates very lean
Structure can be confusing

Advice to Senior Management

Encourage a culture of innovation and smart, small risk taking throughout the company; be open to ideas from other companies and industries

Pros

Good benefits
Good culture
Interesting market sectors
Global company
Large company
Competitive pay
Great teamwork and leadership structure
Flexible hours

Cons

Developing environment is not always the best or cutting edge
Easy to become specialized and stuck in your area of expertise

Advice to Senior Management

Have more training at the get go for new hires. Lower the price of food at the cafeteria so it is more attractive to stay at work to eat.

Pros

There are many good hard working people at this company.

Cons

Management is becoming oppressive. Layers of management are being added, and promotions go to young fresh engineers/marketing people who do not have the training, ability, or often the aptitude to manage people or projects.

Advice to Senior Management

stop buying companies that are well on their way toward going out of business.

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

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

good profit sharing, but treatment by management is poor

Cons

very poor treatment by management

Advice to Senior Management

treat employees better

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.

Pros

Competitive salary
Great benefits
Profit sharing
% of 401k matching
Always looking for competitive edge in marketplace
Ample opportunities to improve job knowledge

Cons

None that I can think of, TI is a great place to work and I would recommend it to anyone.

Advice to Senior Management

I like the way TI is going out and acquiring companies to increase capacity and market share. I am very proud to be a long time TI employee.