Texas Instruments Reviews

Pros

Ability to grow within the company.
Good benefits.
Technically challenging work that allows for for innovation.
Ability to maintain life-work balance.

Cons

A lot of atmosphere within the team depends on the manager and overall feeling within different teams is very different as well.

Pros

Very flexible hours, relaxed atmosphere, ability to work at own pace, profit sharing, employee stock purchase plan, great 401k and insurance benefits

Cons

seems unstable recently, disconnect from upper management at Houston site versus the Dallas site, more benefits are seen if an employee works in the Dallas metroplex

Pros

good oppurtunities and culture, lot of departments and diversified

Cons

comp salary need to be at par with market or better, need to have reward for the effoet

Advice to Senior Management

need to do more to retain talent

Pros

Financially well-managed and business savvy.

Cons

VLSI (HW) engg talent, S/W in Houston is limited.

Advice to Senior Management

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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

Enough Flexibility to manage work and family

Cons

No leading edge in the industry

Advice to Senior Management

Need find a direction to find a way to get ahead of competitors

Pros

Nice work environment. Calm, comfortable place to work. Beautiful site.

Cons

Very poor re-partition of tasks between TI's sites when there was no justification in terms of different skills at the various sites. We were effectively in competition with our colleagues in India/Dallas while we were supposed to be collaborating with them.

As a big multinational, it's very difficult to effect any change at TI and of course inter-site politics hamper getting things done effectively.

Advice to Senior Management

This advice is for OMAP management.
1) When No-one will by your chips without software you can consider that yes, you DO sell software - understand this fact and then recognize that TI has a very poor culture of software development. You need to accept that the excellence of your SW is as important as that of your HW and then stop hiring HW engineers to develop SW. SW engineering is a profession and good SW looks nothing like what your HW engineers produce. This is difficult for people with a HW background to grasp but you need a major cultural change in the way you develop SW at TI - start by hiring outside SW managers (not from semiconductor field!)

2) Skilled people don't grow on trees - stop treating engineers as interchangeable functional units but recognize that when smart people are experienced in a complex field, they're probably more efficient that 10 juniors working together.

3) Leadership - you don't have any. When the head of the BU is "amazed" at what clients do with your products then he probably isn't the person with enough vision to anticipate the next step.

4) Stop paying upper management in stock - they end up running the company more like a casino than a business - they're too worried about short term stock value to implement long term strategy. A lot of the bad decisions of recent years have been to limit short term stock deflation, but they're hurt the capability of the product line to survive long term (loss of employee confidence, loss of key people)

Pros

good for college graduates and entry level

Cons

No scope work is heavy and it is routine

Advice to Senior Management

Please dont do layoffs .. do inform prior to layoffs .... So people are get mentally prepared and start looking for another one

Pros

Well respected in industry. Broad product portfoilo.

Cons

Somewhat slower and conservative in decision making.

Advice to Senior Management

We are not selling sand. We are selling integrated circuit with IP.

Pros

The openness of experienced members in and across departments and groups is phenomenal - anyone is willing to help out a colleague.

Cons

Feedback from upper level management can be hard to spot at times. Restructuring of management is a great improvement to create a better symbiotic relationship.