Texas Instruments Reviews in Dallas-Fort Worth, TX Area

Pros

TI is a technology leader and the work environment is professional and fun. There is plenty of opportunity to change jobs and move upward.

Cons

TI seems to try to get by with the fewest people possible to get the work done so the workload is quite high.

Advice to Senior Management

Don't be so stingy on staffing levels in key teams that are producing results. Don't strangle your cash cow businesses.

Pros

Encourages entrepreneurship from management through staff.

Cons

Can sometimes feel like a number.

Advice to Senior Management

Continue pushing for advancement even with a berated stock performance.

Pros

Location, dallas is a great place to live and afforable

Cons

Constant reorganization and structuring goes on

Advice to Senior Management

no advice

Pros

Texas instruments has an open door policy, so the hierarchy is relatively flat. TI has a great working culture with a lot of knowledgeable people. TI invests largely in their internship program. There are also a lot of opportunities for internal career moves if another group seems more lucrative to work for.

Cons

Like any large company, there will be sub-cultures within cultures and there will always be some difficult people to work with in certain groups. Some groups may be more organized than others.

Advice to Senior Management

Continue to keep the hierarchy relatively flat for quick decision making.

Pros

Texas Instruments has been a big employer in the Dallas area for a long time and thus has become name recognition.

Cons

With the profits Texas Instrumnets has made over the past year one would think it might get passed onto the employees in some way. As a temp, I'm highly underpaid for the job I do and the benefits are horrible and past employees who have been hired on, it doesn't change if they transition you over.

Advice to Senior Management

Keeping your manufacturing work force at 50/50 (temp/ti'ers) is way too high. TI profits at 3.5 Billion would be nice if you passed on some of that to those who work in manufacturing.

Pros

- Good pay for a job that requires only a high school diploma.
- Benifits are excellent and include tuition/books for college.
- Mentoring exists for Engineers and Managers.

Cons

- There is a pay ceiling for Manufacturing Specialists.
- There is limited possibility of promotion.
- All new hires come through temp agencies.
- It is very difficult to be converted from temp to TI.
- Temp employees are the first to go in a downturn, regardless of individual performance.
- Mentoring doesn't exist on the Manufacturing Specialist level.
- Paranoid & stressed culture - Technicians, Engineers and Supervisors do not share knowledge.
- There are lines that exist between groups - to each his own instead of working together.
- Management style is reactive.
- Cost savings is the main focus in the factory and is placed above quality.

Advice to Senior Management

My advice is to work on retaining talent and improving the culture. Start to look within the company for talent, and work on keeping those people around for a while.

Pros

- Good colleagues
- Many tools
- Intention to be fair to employees
- Very broad portfolio >> customers have a one stop shop, employees can switch groups to work on what they like).
- Potentially this could be THE IC company.
- Management does good the same kind of things that would do if they managed Walmart like financials, cost cutting... but not even great on some others.
- Still left few good senior managers that know what should be done.
- Potential room for a good career but limited by an average company.

Cons

Sales based senior management w/ no technical background:
- Lack of creativity to set trends and unable to anticipate them beyond what others say.
- Unable to promote innovation beyond the individual level.
- Need to rely on senior technical management with own agendas.
- Unable to understand execution.
- Unable to set the right internal metrics for the issues they are concerned about.
- Run the company as many individual companies. No leverage.
- Emphasis on huge sales/field force dragging profit.
- Reactive

Advice to Senior Management

Ideally find somebody better to do that job.
Set official method to get feedback from employees (not that they need to listen to all of it, but there would be some key things in there) and method to rate their different management levels with inputs from employees too.

Pros

Very interesting job in the Research and Development area

Cons

A lot of work time

Advice to Senior Management

communicate more with lower level engineers

Pros

There are three inter-related factors that I think have contributed to TI's sustained success: 1) Over time, TI has proven to be very adept at re-inventing its self in response to changes in the market place. 2) At the corporate level, TI behaves as a "holding company" of numerous smaller businesses. 3) These two factors, take together, result in a strong "entrepreneurial spirit" throughout the company.

Cons

The strong entrepreneurial spirit has meant that talent is developed via the "sink or swim" mentality. More focused attention to talent development would be both appreciated and beneficial.

Advice to Senior Management

Be more deliberate about talent development.

Pros

- Opportunities for growth
- Career transitions from a role to another within the company possible
- Good pay
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Cons

- Don't approve of the leadership decisions at this point
- Radical changes in company performance from quarter to quarter
- Not much control on what you want to work on

Advice to Senior Management

- Need to understand why TI is losing market share in products once a TI forte.
- TI should have better visibility with the end consumer.