Texas Instruments Reviews in Dallas-Fort Worth, TX Area

Pros

1) Lots of great people there, chances to learn from them and interact with the best and brightest
2) excellent benefits, good 401(k) matching, profit sharing

Cons

1) management spread is too wide. You might report to a manager who doesn't have a technical background and who only cares about the bottomline dollars.
2) exposed to the cyclical nature of the semiconductor industry, layoffs are possible.

Advice to Senior Management

listen to your engineers, and cater to their needs more. As they work and cater to your demands.

Pros

Great learning environment and a good place to grow professionally

Cons

Pay and promotion not very good

Advice to Senior Management

Keep walking the talk

Pros

good people mostly. big company so many opportunities

Cons

some people can be difficult to work with.

Advice to Senior Management

no advice

Pros

1. Relatively good salary in DFT area.
2. Have a good balance between job and life
3. Good place to learn SC.

Cons

1. HR doesn't really work
2. Managers' styles are so different, there are many managers came from Asia who have bad mentality, it becomes hard to deal with.

Advice to Senior Management

Try not to promote the young guys to become PLM/GM, although they are aggressive and work hard but lack of experience, it really hurt the organization.

Pros

interesting place to work in
good salary and benefiets
nice working place
good work life balance

Cons

very far from home
long working hours
can be strestfull
very long projects
too manymanagers in a small company

Pros

Non-salary benefits are great. Pay is commensurate with industry. Pay raises and bonuses really kick in if you are in the top 10% of your group which is decided by your manager.

Cons

Having a network is a absolute must. Without that you would be just one of the 25000 people working for this company.

Advice to Senior Management

Start looking beyond the old boys network

Pros

Strong culture, benefits, stable growing company

Cons

Slow moving, work a long time before promotion opportunity arises

Advice to Senior Management

Tailor benefits to younger employees

Pros

Large product portfolio
Broad customer base
Large Learning capabilities

Cons

silo effect
limited job rotation capabilities
Global integration suffering from regional push back

Advice to Senior Management

TI became a risk averse company. React, support, promote true innovation !
Don't just fake it.

Pros

- working on cutting edge technology
- great compensation
- good for starting the career.
- Cost of living in Dallas is low.

Cons

- incompetent middle management
- Growth is stagnant.
- Internal politics.
- No humanity towards employees and especially towards Contractors.
- HR presence is non-existent.
- Like a Government company. Process is very bureaucratic.

Advice to Senior Management

- Take care of your employees. don't put a blind-eye thinking that the employees are happy.
- Don't believe middle management.
- Make the HR people really work instead of being there for name sake.

Pros

Truly interenational company
Great engineering talent
Good salary for entry to mid level of experience
Very strong teamwork and team culture

Cons

No recognition or rewards for formal business education
Quality of mid level management is pathetic
Analytical ability of sales and business staff is very poor

Advice to Senior Management

Ditch the 30 year old practices, and bring professional management practices to the company: you need to add value instead of just riding on the technical savvy of the engineering staff